Chess Opening: Lasker’s Trap
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 at
2:07 pm
A discussion of Lasker’s Trap, which shows up in the Albin Countergambit to the Queen’s Gambit. I had to use WinBoard for this lecture because PGNMentor does not allow me to promote my pawn to a knight. 
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The whole video was about that e4 is better than e3 XD Congrats.
You forgot to take the free white queen by black queen on 6: 57. BIG MISTAKE!!!
Bishop on c3 is protecting it. Might want to double check the board before making a comment with a criticism in all caps.
Ummm, are you watching the same game as the rest of us….
Great clear, concise commentary. Thanks for posting this clever gambit!
Great video. It also looks very useful because white’s e3 move would look natural to someone who isn’t familiar with this opening because of similarity to Falkbeer’s countergambit, where white’s fourth move can be d3. Thanks:)
at 6:53 Kf6 check wins the queen
Cheers mate.
dude its Nf6 for knight because King is K
i know i just confuse them sometimes, or perhaps it was very late when i wrote the comment, dont know
no, the pawn can take it if hte rook tries to check, that also allows whites rook to not be pinned and get out of the corner. bad move.
nop, white pawn take (g7xNf6)
As you say, it does depend on White playing e3. He may just as easily play f6. What do you do then!?
You’re correct in that this trap only applies to 4.e3?
4.Nf3 is the main line of the Albin Counter Gambit. 4.e4 is another possible move. Against either of these I would play …Nc6 and just develop my pieces, using the pawn on d4 to constrict White’s development… in theory. I have a couple other videos on this channel of me using this gambit, although I’m not sure of its overall soundness.
Sorry, I don’t know why I said f6. I meant to say 4. Nf3.
Nice video the same day I saw it I got to use it in my bullet game. The game went like this 1. D4 D5 2. C4 E5 3.DXE5 D4 4. NF3 NC6 5. E3 BB4+ 6. BD2 DXE3 7. BXB4 EXF2+ KXF2? QXD1 and he resigned.
what if in the bishop blocks after the queen check what if the knight blocks on f3
After Qe4 at 1:38 just let white play Qa4+
Ok. And after black plays Nc6 what then? There is a still treat on white rook. One of the moves to continue would be taking bishop, but than black can take your rook and kings side is crushed
@WizlBs I know that if White takes the bishop, black recaptures, and white takes the queen with his knight, that black can fork the king and rook. However, you can play a3, force the bishop-knight exchange, but lose a pawn
1:33 i like the way you pointed out knight is pinned
Great chess video, I love those rare tricky situations in chess where underpromotion is the key to success! I guess I will study Albin’s countergambit soon
what if the pawn doesn’t go to e3 but jumps up two?
I ran the 5 possible moves for White after 4…Bb4+ through the analyzer on Babaschess to a depth of 12 moves ahead, with the following results:
5. Bd2, White advantage 0.40 points
5. Ke2!?, White advantage 0.05 points
5. Nd2?!, Black advantage 0.17 points
5. Nc3?, Black advantage 3.72 points
5. Qd2??, Black advantage 5.69 points
1 pawn = 1 point, roughly speaking.
@duskwalker2 I don’t agree that White can get any advantage against 4…Bb4+. All the lines are miserable for the first player.