Top-4 Ponziani Opening Traps | Nasty Tricks to Win Fast

April 22, 2022 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video lesson, you will learn the top 4 chess opening traps from the Ponziani Opening, which happens after the first moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3. It is one of the oldest chess openings, but your most of your opponents are likely to get into trouble as the obvious moves are losing mistakes.

More than 250,000 players make a losing mistake in just the 3rd move of the game. GM Igor Smirnov also shares with you a couple of really cool traps in the mainline when Black plays 4…Nxe4.

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00:00 Ponziani Opening Traps, Tricks to Win Fast
00:31 Trap-1: When your opponent is unprepared
01:43 250K+ players make this mistake
02:30 Trap-2: Punishing 3…Bc5 mistake
04:30 Trap-3 in mainline 4…Nxe4
07:01 Trap-4: Checkmate the Black King

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