Chess: 900 to 1800

Traps and tricks

Two traps you set (the Elephant Trap and the London …Bf5 trick), one White blunder you punish in the Colle, and one trick you must avoid in the Exchange Variation. In every line you play the correct move — the point is to recognise the pattern.

  • 12 min
  • 1 step
  • Lesson 132 of 132

Four lines, two of them core:

  • The Elephant Trap (core)
  • London: the 8.Qxf5?? trap (core)
  • Colle: 10.e5? drops a pawn (important)
  • Exchange Variation: answer Bxf6 with the knight (important)

Learn takes up to five new lines at a time, core lines first. When the chapter is learned, practise it from memory.

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