13 English Opening Traps (for white and black)

Deadly and brutally efficient chess traps in the English Opening for both white and black. Learning these could win you quick games, as well as prevent you from losing in a few moves!

Traps for white:

00:00 1. The Poisoned Prophylaxis (Three Knights)
05:27 2. The Mikenas Trap
07:10 3. The Mikenas Poisoned Pawn
10:45 4. The Gruenfeld Diagonal trap
12:50 5. The Scandinavian Knight
13:26 6. The Four Knights Trap
15:25 7. The Four Knights Fork
17:13 8. The Hedgehog Trap

Traps for Black:

19:36 9. The Queen's Indian Queen Trap
21:03 10. The Symmetrical Trap
23:30 11. The Diagonal Trap (Symmetrical)
24:52 12. The Three Knights Trap

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[HangingPawns]

Just search for the English or traps in the search bar and all that are available should be listed there.

[pawebiegun]

I really admire your dedication to learn an opening in so much depth.

[chimp]

Thank you, I have been watching all your videos and they are quite instructive and informative.

[eaglesclan]

Keep going, bro
Please do not forget symmetrical english and king's english variation
Thank you :) 💙

[zappa]

A trap I get decently often as White goes 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bc5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. e3 d6. 6. Nge2... Essentially you're waiting for them to play Be6 which looks like natural development while targeting the lone c pawn, but when they do you play d4 attacking their dark-squared bishop. If they try to move it you do d5 to fork their knight on c6 and light-squared bishop on e6, but either way you are winning material.

[lukehirata]

Hi Stjepan! I am a big fan of your opening series and really appreciate your efforts in putting time in uploading these videos... I started playing chess a couple of months ago, and it's nice to see that you and many other chess youtubers can provide such guidance...


Would love to see a Ponziani opening review, other than that, thank you for your videos explaining better than many about the openings🎉🎉❤

[AsthmaBreather]

Wow I was just thinking if you would make a video on this

[AsthmaBreather]

I like how you used a tea kettle to represent English

[stoutlager]

There's a rare one (the last bit is rare anyway) in the 2.g3 lines you may encounter in bullet and blitz at fairly low ratings. Down at low ratings this is just black blundering away the game but slightly stronger players dug a little deeper and found out black can complicate things and demand white play a couple precise moves. It starts:
1. c4 e5 2. g3 d5 3. cxd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nc3 Qc6 6. e3 (threat is Bb5 winning the queen)
Stronger players may try: Black sacs the queen with Bg4 7. Bb5 Bxf3
Alright now white is winning here if and only if they play 8. Qb3. Snapping the queen immediately is even because black won too much material in the exchange. Qb3 allows Qxb7 forking knight and rook after the exchanges. Now the game is lost for black. 8. Qb3 Bxh1 9. Bxc6+ Nxc6 10. Qxb7. Black can bail out of this a little earlier to reduce the damage but it's still winning for white.

[kaarlo]

Možes li napraviti rekreaciju svojih ruy lopez videa, poz

[qualcommatheros]

I didn't know Bradd Pitt was chess GM

[cz]

You missed a trap in the four knights: 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e4 Bc5 5. Nxe5 Nxe5 6. d4 Bd6 7. c5!, winning for white