Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Intrincate Trap
The same trap motif can appear in different openings. Sometimes the pattern is difficult to discover and then even great masters fall into the trap.
Do you remember the “Elephant Trap”? In today example that motif takes a sophisticated appearance and even the following combination doesn’t look simple.
Oldrich Duras, a leading chess master from the early 20th century is the victim in this game.
Maybe we feel comforted when we see that even great masters overlook traps. But that happens only occasionally in master practice and it has to be an encouragement for us, simple amateurs, to improve in our knowledge of the game.
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