Play Chess Openings: Blackmar-Diemer Vienna Famous Trap

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Blackmar-Diemer Vienna Famous Trap

In slow grandmaster tournaments, opening traps are rare. But in blitz, club, and online games we see traps all the time. The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit can be declined with 4.f3 Bf5 known as the BDG Vienna. The most common continuations are 5.g4 Bg6 or 5.fxe4 Nxe4. If Black takes with the bishop by 5...Bxe4, a trap winning the queen is playable. All Black has to do is to see a hanging d4-pawn in the middle of the board and grab it. Blitz players fall for it, as my opponent did in our two-minute bullet game below. This same simple trap can also be found in the BDG Euwe variation. It works!

My Blackmar-Diemer Tactics with 500 combinations and mates.

Sawyer - kekendevi (1300), Yahoo! 2 0, 26.07.2000 begins 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Bf5 4.f3 Nf6 5.fxe4 [5.g4] 5...Bxe4 [5...Nxe4] 6.Nxe4 Nxe4 7.Bd3 [7.Nf3 is equally good, but the bishop move sets a trap.] 7...Qxd4? [The queen goes too far. Better is 7...Qd5 8.Nf3+/=]

8.Bb5+ Qd7 9.Bxd7+ Nxd7 10.Nf3 [Or 10.Qe2+- Black has lost his queen but plays on. White's task is to complete his development and then go after the Black king with his much stronger army.] 10...0-0-0 11.Qe2 Ndf6 12.0-0 h5 13.Bf4 g6 14.Rad1 Rxd1 15.Rxd1 a6 16.Qc4 Bh6 17.Qxc7# 1-0