5 Best Chess Opening Traps in the Italian Game

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🔹 7 Best Chess Opening Traps –
🔹 Hidden line in the Italian Game –

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov will share with you the 5 best chess opening traps in the Italian Game for both White and Black. The Italian Game is a family of chess openings beginning with the moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4.

These traps are easy to learn and you can incorporate them in your own games easily. Also, the traps are from the most common and popular lines (and variations) from this opening.

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00:00 5 Best Opening Traps in the Italian Game
00:26 Trap-1: White’s pawns vs Black’s pieces
04:21 Trap-2: Mind-blowing kingside attack
07:00 Trap-2: if White plays immediate Ng5
09:39 Recap of the crushing attack
10:18 Trap-3: Old, smothered checkmate
11:56 Trap-4: Italian Game: Classical Variation
13:59 Can you find the winning move?
14:32 Trap-5: Winning trap for White

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152 Comments

  1. @6:02, how about h4 instead of h3. Seems to stop the attack somehow.

  2. At time of 6.00 . White Kinight can take the pawn at g5 and break the attack? Please enlighten me

  3. Just played with the first trap, opponent fell right into the trap, some variation happened. I ended up forking his king and queen with no way our for his queen. He resigned. LETS GO!!!!!

  4. I’m gonna guess the sequence is Queen takes pawn check , bishop takes rook check then slide your rook all the way down for the mate 😅

  5. Great bait to get the Queen away from the king 🔥

  6. Re8, Black rook captured,Qxf7,black queen go to h8,Qxe8 checkmate

  7. My answer: white plays queen takes f7(sac the queen) and after black plays rook takes f7, white plays rook e8 checkmate.

  8. gqueen f7 wins
    becuse rook can back rank checkmate

  9. Insane traps, which I haven't even heard before, although I often play Italian game

  10. W Q x f7.

    I'm really enjoying your videos. My children have gotten into chess amongst other board games. Its been a long time since I've played chess, now I've started playing again with my children the passion to play has been rekindled. .

  11. 14:21 my answer:
    Forced checkmate by the following:
    … Qx f7
    Rxf7 Re8 #

    variation 2:
    … Qxf7 Kh8
    Qxf8 #

  12. December 11, 2022 still watching and learning at you🤗

  13. So, in the first trap around 1:25…what if instead of moving bishop to e6 they instead castle. Is the trap still in the works or did that shut the trap down

  14. Queen check
    Rook takes queen
    Mate in 1(rook)
    Thanks for this great trap!!!!!

  15. sac the rook on e8 rook captures to not get backranked queen takes f pawn putting in check and attaking the rook quuen moves back and then quuen captures rook for checkmate

  16. 14:28 You move THE ROOK to take THEIR ROOK! (reference to GothamChess)

  17. On the challenge Re8 the rook is forced to capture then Qxf7+ the has one option which is go to Kh8 at last the queen captures the rook Qxe8#

  18. You content is so good I've subscribed created 6 accounts to subscribe it… XD

  19. You are always very optimistic. In 11:10 if white doesn´t take with the knight, but with the bishop, then white has increased positional advantage, I guess.
    The sequence starting from 7:00 is awesome. Thanks for that. I wonder how much time he needed to think the whole move through.

  20. For 14:21, Queen takes F7, Rook takes F7, RE4 TO E8 # cuz Pawn is pinned by Bishop on C4. Im not fluent in notation 😅 Will read it after

  21. Wow, Qxf7+, forces rook to capture, pinning itself because of the bishop on e4. Then Re8#.

  22. At 7:07, what if white plays pawn to h4 for himself? What is the best continuation?

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