Coach Leopold's

Opening Chess Traps Database CD

    Interested in opening chess traps? So am I. So much so, that I decided to compile a database full of them which I now offer to you on CD in Bookup format along with Chess Opening Wizard Express for only 8.95 plus $2.95 shipping and handling. 

    The database includes over 1300 traps from every major opening and many obscure openings and defenses: The Ruy Lopez (73), Giuoco Piano (57), The French Defense (133),Two Knights Defense, Four Knights Defense, Petroff Defense, Philidor's Defense, Sicilian Defense (297), Queen's Gambit (106), Hungarian Defense, Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, King's Gambit, Evan's Gambit, Ben-oni Defense, The English Opening, Dutch Defense and many more.

    Why learn chess traps?

    A trap is a sly stratagem with a baited offer, tangible or intangible, the acceptance of which triggers a punitive combination. -Al Horowitz

    A trap in chess parlance is, quite bluntly, an ambush. A player uses any number of devices or hoaxes to deceive an unwary rival. The poor innocent is lured into the trap which shuts suddenly and decisively. There can be no escape. -GM W. Lombardy

    There is nothing more demoralizing than falling into a trap early on in the game. -Unknown

    Getting out of the opening without blundering or falling into some trap is a minor victory in itself for me. -Chesskev

    Chess is a game of wits. Chess is also a game of halfwits. -GM W. Lombardy

    Marshall (Frank J.) was often on the look-out for traps after the first opening moves. -Lev Khariton

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