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You’ll probably never use this in practice though. It’s a good trap to know just in case as you start your journey into learning more advanced traps. However, it will rarely come up at lower level matches and will never come up at higher level play. It delivers a checkmate in the lowest number of possible moves and can only happen when playing black. This trap is extremely simple to learn and easy to pull off. It’s good to have a few different openings memorized when practicing with black because the white opening will decide which traps are viable. The main thing when playing the black side is to watch what the white pieces open with before deciding which traps to progress with. Since black goes second, there is a slight disadvantage from the beginning but there are many traps that can be set on this side as well. This trap was named after Italian grandmaster Mario Monticelli from a game played in 1926. This is a longer trap based around the Bogo-Indian Defense, so it’s slightly more obscure than a lot of traps on this list. If that bait is taken, you’ll be up a whole bunch of material and black will likely resign. The key to this trap is enticing black with knight to g5. However, Damiano thought the opening was weak. This Damiano defense is one of the oldest openings in chess but was named after author Pedro Damiano for his clever variations of the opening. If they take it, you gain the king side rook. Black is baited into taking the rook on e5. This trap relies on black playing the Damiano Defense. However, not much is known about the player. This trap was named after Hermann Halosar. There are many ways this could go, so feel comfortable playing this opening through since that’s what will happen 95% of the time. If black takes the bait, you win the game. The key here is the queen sacrifice on f3. It allows for whites knight to d6 which pins the pawn on e7 and checkmates the black king.Īlthough the Caro-Kann opening isn’t an extremely popular one, this is a nice trap to have in your back pocket in case it comes up. The black knight to d7 is the move that ends the game for black. This trap is viable when black opens with the Caro-Kann defense (pawn to c6). Decent players will pick up on the queen to d4 trap but most players wont realize it before losing their knight. This one is clever and has multiple layers. However, they can dig themselves deeper into the trap if they take the white knight on d4 with the queen. If black takes that pawn, you will at least be up a knight. The linchpin in this scenario is the knight taking the pawn on d4. This trap based is around the French Defense.

The trap was named after Akiba Rubinstein who lost to it twice in some very high level matches. If black doesn’t notice the trap, you will win a queen. The surprising move for white here is the knight taking the pawn on d5. This trap for white opens with a queens gambit and uses a line that is very common in lower level matches. This is a relatively common trap to find and use against an opponent. Black has to move their knight to castle and you pick up that piece as a reward for a successful trap. The key move here is the queen to d5 move which attacks the f7 pawn. This trap is based around the London System opening but and plays into the Scotch Gambit which is slightly differently than the others that start with this opening. This trap is named after Sire de Legal, who was a prominent French chess player in the 18th century. If your opponent chooses to take the queen you get an immediate checkmate. It’s a stellar trap because of the extremely tempting queen sacrifice. This trap is based around playing the London System and is pretty easy to pull off against lower level players. checkout this study to become more familiar with this trap The name of this mate likely originally referred to someone that was still in school rather than a highly educated person that scholar typically means today. The Owen’s Defense trap is a good way to turn this around if this is played against you. It’s one of the fastest mates but is easy to spot and respond to. This is probably the most used trap in chess.