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Why Nf6 is Better Than Ne7 (A Trap)

This article is aimed at beginners only. Like other beginners, when I was in the initial stage of learning chess I was really attracted by chess
traps in order to register quick wins.

What I am going to show you is not really a trap because youre not o ering anything. Its just a wayto punish your opponent for
developing a piece on wrong square. In general, while playing kings pawn openings, Nf6 is much better than Ne7 because of the
knights in uence on center. Meanwhile a more critical task of Nf6 is to protect the king. If this is ignored it is usually decisive, and in my
database I found 2 games where players rated over 2000 played. Clearly there is a greater chance that beginners will make this mistake,
here is the sequence of moves I am talking about:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 d6 5. 0-0 Ne7? 6. Ng5! and White is winning at least a pawn by force.

The game between Vasco Diogo (2220) vs Jose Maria (2051) continued with 6d5, the only move that might prolong the ght. The game
proceeded with the moves 6 d5 7. exd5 Na5 8. Nc3 Nxc4 9. dxc4 Ng6 10. Qh5 Be7 11. f4 Bxg5 12. fxg5 Qe7 13. Ne4 Qb4 14. b3 Bd7 15.
Be3 b6 16. Rf2 O-O-O 17. c3 Qa3 18. g3 a5 19. c5 Ne7 20. Bc1 1-0

As were discussing this from the beginnerss point of view, they might consider Ng5 bad as they can simply castle, and White is moving
the same piece twice in the opening! But this can also result in disaster for Black as follows:

6 0-0 7. Qh5!

The Greco setup, a deadly way to attack the castled king in the absence of natural defender.

7h6

7Re8 fails to 8. Bxf7+ Kf8 9. Nxh7# or Kh8 then Qxh7#

8. Nxf7 Rxf7

8Qe8 leads to typical checkmate 9. Nxh6++ Kh7/h8 10. Nf7+ Kg8 11.Qh8#

9. Qxf7 is winning.

I experienced this pattern many times in Queens Pawn Openings too. When Whites bishop is on the b1-h7 diagonal but Blacks knight on
g6, and that gives some chances with Ng5 and Qh5!!.

Ashvin Chauhan

This entry was posted in Articles, Ashvin Chauhan, Basic (Rating below 1000), Improver (950-1400) on November 22, 2017 by AshvinC.

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