Chess Traps, Pitfalls & Swindles
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Author: I. A. Horowitz, Fred Reinfeld
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Added Date: 2021-03-15
Language: eng
Subjects: chess, traps, pitfalls, swindles
Collections: folkscanomy chess, folkscanomy, additional collections
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CHESS TRAPS PITFALLS & SWINDLES
HOW TO SET THEM AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
There is little doubt that we all have a spot of larceny in our hearts. It seems to manifest itself most clearly in our games. Take Chess, for example: to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat commands our admiration; but if the snatching involves a little highclass flimflam, who will deny it gives us an extra thrill. Chess Traps, Pitfalls, and Swindles is a rich storehouse of Chess “crimes.” Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining.
By the very nature of its subject, the combinations you will find within the pages of this book are not all sound. But who cares? After all, there never has been The Perfect Crime. The great Steinitz once wrote: “A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.” So, if you are a grandmaster, like Steinitz, perhaps this book is not for you. But, on the contrary, if you agree with Tartakover, who once remarked, “The mistakes are ail there, waiting to be made,” then this definitely is your dish. In Chess, as in life, we can’t all live dangerously; but fortunately we all can enjoy a vicarious thrill.
CONTENTS
PART ONE Chess Gimmicks and the Psychology Behind Them
1 Even the Masters Can Go Wrong 3
2 More About Traps, Pitfalls, and Swindles 14
3 Baiting the Trap 29
PART TWO Traps and Pitfalls in the Opening
4 “Transparent” Traps and Pitfalls 53
5 The Harried King 63
6 Inept Development 74
7 Greed Doesn’t Pay 94
PART THREE Gimmicks in Over-the-Board Play
8 Slick, Sly, and Subtle 109
9 The Gentle Art of Swindling 127
PART FOUR Gimmick vs. Gimmick
IO “He Sees It!” 149
11 One Good Gimmick Deserves Another 172
12 The Trapper Trapped 198
13 Thrust and Counterthrust 220
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