Chess Opening: Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense: Tarrasch's Trap

Video Title :	Chess Opening: Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense: Tarrasch's Trap
Description :	This is a discussion of a trap in the Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense. This is an important trap to know because it shows what happens if Black tries to hold the center in the Steinitz. When Tarrasch beat Marco in 1892, it signaled the beginning of the end for the Old Steinitz Defense. Today the Neo-Steinitz, 3...a6 4.Ba4 d6, is much more popular because it avoids the trap in this video.
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Keywords, Tags :	chess pullin opening ruy lopez tarrasch trap steinitz defense
Video Length :	10 : 1

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The same equivocation appears in the 'Chess Games' site; but check out, for instance, Fred Reinfeld's classic "Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess", New York 1947, games #16 (for the 'Tarrasch Trap') and #21 (for the 'Dresden Trap'). Of course, this is of minor importance here. What is really important is to understand the idea behind the trap; and you are worthy of the greatest praise for teaching that here. Congratulations!

Hmmm. Interesting. I have only heard of this as the Tarrasch Trap, which makes sense to me because he played it multiple times.

Forgive me, but... this is not the "Tarrasch trap"! That is in Tarrasch vs Zukertort, Dresden 1887, and Tarrasch vs Gunsberg, Manchester 1890. This is the "Dresden trap", the largest opening trap there is, so large that someone called it "the Everest of traps" (!!!) - an amazing demonstration of Tarrasch's analytical habilities...

Hi Matt, these are really nice videos...very instructional.

awsome video but next time try to move to pieces slower

if i was black i would have eaten the queen with c6xd4

Not legally you wouldn't. The knight is pinned to the king by the bishop on b5. Only after ...Bd7 is played breaking the pin does White need to worry about the queen.

same...

just wandering which chess program are you using?

My brain is a chess program ...