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How to Avoid Chess Traps – by FM Marko Makaj

March 3, 2018 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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♕ Chess Traps and How to Avoid them – https://goo.gl/knEQrA

Chess traps are always fun and exciting as long as you’re the one who sets it and it’s even more fun if your opponent falls into your trap. However, things are different when a trap is set for you. How to identify the traps that your opponent sets for you, so that you can avoid falling for them?

In this video lesson, RCA guest coach FM Marko Makaj will teach you how to foresee the traps set by your opponent and avoid them, by showing traps like Cambridge Springs from the Queens Gambit, the Mortimer Trap from the Berlin Defense, and the Blackburne Trap (or the Legal Trap).

You can find the PGN of the traps discussed in the video in the link given above.

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