4 Opening traps to play as black against the Ruy Lopez! Fishing Pole Trap, Mortimer Trap, and more!

About this video:

In this video I'll show you 4 ways to trick your opponents when they play the Ruy Lopez defense, also known as the Spanish Game. Two of the traps arise after the Berlin defense, one comes after Alapin's defense, and one comes after the Bird's defense. But ALL of them are super clever and will leave your opponent scratching their heads in confusion. The Fishing Pole Trap and the Mortimer trap are just two of these 4 clever traps.

[samuelichovec]

I was just studying theory of Ruy Lopez, and I finished my studying with these traps, I feel like a master of that opening now

[martinkucerka]

Literally just won using the fishing pool trap. Amazing feeling. Thanks

[STEVE_K_J]

Beware - at 1:49 if white sneakily plays Nc4 and you take the bishop, Nd6# is a nasty smothered mate.

[zanti]

The Mortimer Trap at 1:50 has another trick after c6 worth mentioning, that being Nc4 and if cxb5?? Nd6#. To refute it, Black just needs to stay alert and stop the mate with Ng6 or d6, which still wins a piece.

[giorgioevangelisti]

After successfully trying the Blackburn Shilling Gambit, I want to try these traps against one of the most common openings.
Tried with the Berlin’s defense, so to have either 1st or 2nd trap options.
The second one worked well, nice and easy 💪

[gizmoist]

I like your vid...str8 to the point with no long's intros and talking...thanks

[JuanIgnacioLX]

Niceeee trapssss brooo will totally check them out

[JFBassett]

Hey, Nelson! I can use these!! Thanks!!

[marrgm]

Thank you very much! My friend is using the ruy lopez against me so basically I lose everygame when he does it. Now that I now on how to counter ruy lopez, I can now win. Thank you very much😊

[kamrulhassan]

nice traps ! and your video is short and time saving !

[chessenjoyer]

Great video! BTW mistakes happen but rook to e1 forces a queen exchange in the 4th trap and white is only down a rook at the end of the game... So the threat isn't "save queen" or "checkmate" as you said. Anyways the 4 traps seem very useful. Thank you for letting us learn with these useful videos :)



Edit: i analysed the 4th trap on stockfish guys its a losing position for black, do not try it in a game as i said in earlier comment rook e1 is a completely valid move and apparently it loses you the queen.. it does not force a queen trade. If you played that you'll lose your Queen.

[mikekeenan]

I know there's another trap in the Exchange Variation that's quite similar to the Fishing Pole, except that Black offers a bishop instead of a knight on g4.

[Danumurti]

The last trap, what if white play Re1? Qxe1 I guess?

The third trap, never see that before, thanks!

[moharmon]

Great content, explained well. Great stuff!

[johnnyho]

👏great learning material - hope you will publish some books in the future. Definitely a fan of yours!!

[CerealDust-nStuff]

3:38 - after Knight to D4, they always take my Knight with their Knight. I'll have to set the board up and figure out what to do exactly after that.

[halfcolombian]

No1 is worthless. Abolutely no one captures the knight and it simply remains there in a weird position and you don't really know how to continue. As you say the castling is the most common move for white so would be nice to find more alternatives after the castling in the berlin defence.

[hiya]

thank you for this video, i love the fishing pole trap. has helped me quite a few times

[SathishKumar-gjte]

How to counter the counters? Can you make a video on that?

[peg]

2:45 queen b4 pinning the queen will force a queen trade and then you lose a rook