8. TRAPS

I shall now give a few positions or traps to be avoided in the openings, and in which (practice has shown) beginners are often caught.

Example 20.

White plays:

1. P × P Kt × P

Black should have recaptured with the Pawn.

2. Kt × Kt B × Q
3. B × P ch K - K 2
4. Kt - Q 5 mate.