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My FAVORITE Opening Traps for Speed Chess

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In this video, I share some of my favorite opening traps for blitz and bullet chess with fellow Twitch streamer WFM Lile Koridze. The traps I show include the dirty Englund Gambit variation, a plethora of Stafford Gambit tricks, some trickiness in the Cambridge Springs against the Queen's Gambit, and an offbeat positional trap against the King's Indian Defense. Find timestamps below!

Special thanks to Lile Koridze for the collaboration! Check her out and Twitch and YouTube!
www.twitch.tv/lilekoridze
www.youtube.com/c/LileKoridze

Chapters
0:00 ENGLUND GAMBIT
4:01 STAFFORD GAMBIT
15:50 ELEPHANT TRAP & CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS
22:10 OFFBEAT POSITIONAL TRAP VS KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE

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