We all know what chess mates are, but how do we define a chess trap? Most would agree that bad play or blunders should not be included in the classification of traps. The dictionary defines a trap as 1.Something by which a unsuspecting person is caught unaware. 2.Something that leads an individual into a place or situation from which escape is difficult. 3.To put at a disadvantage or bring under control by or as if by enmeshing in a net.

This seems to be the essence of what a trap does in that the fatal move that is sprung should be at least a reasonably and plausible one.

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---------------------Traps-----------------------------------	---------------------Mates-------------------------
----------------Noahs Ark	1.---------------Legall's Mate
--------The Trapper Trapped	2. -------------Smothered Mate
-------------------trap 3	3. -------------Epaulette Mate
-------------------trap4	4. --------------Boden's Mate
-------------Tarrasch's Trap	5. -------------Arabian Mate
----------Tarrasch's Other Trap	6. -------------Blackburne's Mate
----------The Anti-Marshall Pitfall	7. -------------Anastasia's Mate
Trap 8 The Queen's Gambit Declined	8. --------------Greco's Mate
Queen's Gambit Refused Albine Countergambit	9. -------------Damianos Mate
Trap 10 Alehhine's Trap	10. --------------Morphys Mate
Trap11 The Bird's Opening	11. ------Morphys Concealed Mate
-----Trap 12 Birds Trap	12. --------------Mating Pattern 1
Trap 13 Blackmar-Diemaer Gambit	13. --------------Mating Pattern 2
Trap 14 The Mother of All Traps	14. -----------------Blind Swine
Trap 15 Blackmar-Diemaer Gambit	15. ----------------Blind Swine 2
Trap 16 Queens Gambit Declined	16. ------------------Pawn mate
Trap 17 Queens Gambit Declined	17. ---------------Mating Pattern 3
Trap 18 French Defense	18. ---------------Mating Pattern 4
Trap 19 French Defense	19. --------Rotlewi-Rubinstein Mate
Trap 20 Ruy Lopez	20. ---------------Pillsburys Mate
Trap 21 Ruy Lopez	21. -----------------Reti's Mate
Trap 22 Pirc Defense	22. --------------Max Langes Mate
Trap 23 Petrov Trap 1	23. ---------Max Langes Mate Finish
Trap 24 Petrov Trap 2
Trap 25 Petrov Trap 3
Trap 26 Petrov Trap 4
Trap 27 Noah's Ark Trap 2
Trap 28 Cambridge Springs Trap 1
Trap 29 Cambridge Springs Trap 2
Trap 30 Cambridge Springs Trap 3
31. The famious Mayet Harrwitz Trap. A famous trap from the Queen's Gambit declined, Cambridge Springs Variation
Trap 32 Costage Trap
Trap 33 Evans Gambit

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