lichess.org
Donate

A new opening trap?



I found this by accident. The moves all seem natural after white sacrifices a pawn and it leads to 10. Rd8+! after 9... h6??, a trap.
After 9...Nbd7 white is in trouble: 2 pawns down, no compensation.
7 ... Qxd4 seems too accommodating. 7 ... h6 first, and take on d4 only after some exchanges. Or simply develop after the knight goes back.
Very peculiar game. I played a demo with that game with AsmFish (stronger than StockFish in my opinion), but from the part blacks do not commit the blunder of playing h6, and white resigned.
The tennison gambit is usually quite tricky to deal with, but in this game it feels like black did his best to help white out
I don't understand why so many people downvoted this, other than black not taking on e4 on move2. to gain a tempo on the white's knight I dont consider the combination of moves bad especially in a lower range of ELO (lets not forget that OP mentions this as a opening trap not a breakthrough in opening theory... there is a huge difference so as a trap it servers its cause)

I find it quite possible for black to want to kick off white's knight with a move like h6 (on move 9) despite it being a blunder simply because move 10 Rh8+ is not an obvious threat (unless you calculate it carefully) because that rook will be unprotected and king could either capture it or move to a darksquare (which after computer analysis is very bad for black apparently but on a bullet or blitz or a lower rated rapid I find this quite possible to happen)

So op you get my upvote and let the haters be haters :P

This topic has been archived and can no longer be replied to.