Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: French Rubinstein Trap
The attitude when playing chess can determine what happens in the game. To face a game absent-mindedly can cause many troubles. We always have moments in the day when our brain relaxes and we...
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Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Rubinstein Again
Chess is a game with easily understandable rules. However, in order to improve players need to achieve a certain level of mastery. To that level belong concepts such as strategy, plans, tactics … and...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Schlechter’s Mistake
To improve in chess, players need to work hard studying many aspects of the game. Objectively analysing the own games is a first step in detecting mistakes, weaknesses and/or defects in our own approach...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Budapest First Victim
This post is a collaboration with Mr Andrew Crosby. Andrew is an expert in chess gambits, which he usually plays in his games with great success. He is a member of our virtual Chess.com...
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...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Rubinstein Trap
Rubinstein trap is named after Akiba Rubinstein. Interestingly, it is not because Rubinstein was the player who invented the trap, but because he got trapped twice into it. The first time in his game...
