A dreadful Chess Trap: Blackburne Shilling

A dreadful Chess Trap: Blackburne Shilling

1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nd4!?

White to move. what's your move?

The name of this trap (Blackburne Shilling) is associated to Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924), surname Black Death, who according to the legend earned his life by playing a shilling a game (an old English coin = 5 pence), at least 100 thousands players. Remember when in New York thirty years ago the bet was one dollar a game.

Instead of showing you some hundreds of opening traps, in many different openings, where at the end of the reading no one will be remembered, with the regret of knowing that in a similar position there's a winning sequence, which you do not recall; I will fully cover just one trap, rather unknown, which claimed many victims, up to Master level. Who however are able (they) to win even after losing one solid piece. But normally the game ends in 7 moves.
1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nd4!?

White to move: what's your move?

The name of this trap (Blackburne Shilling) is associated to Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924), surname Black Death, who according to the legend earned his life by playing a shilling a game (an old English coin = 5 pence), at least 100 thousands players. Remember when in New York thirty years ago the bet was one dollar a game?

Instead of showing you some hundreds of opening traps, in many different openings, where at the end of the reading no one will be remembered, with the regret of knowing that in a similar position there's a winning sequence, which you do not recall; I will fully cover just one trap, rather unknown, which claimed many victims, up to Master level. Who however are able (they) to win even after losing one solid piece. But normally the game ends in 7 moves.

Novice and intermediate players are the target of this book, up to 1.700 Elo rating.

This edition of Blackburne Shilling is a translation of the Italian original edition, first published on September 2012.
If you came here, you probably have already read my other Chess books, Chess patterns among them, being so familiar with my basic English, which with the help of many diagrams should be capable to explain these concepts.
This translation by me is not still controlled for proper language.
I apologize for the grammatical errors: you can easily get a refund if not satisfied, the refund rate stands at a bare 1% now.
Simply "Click to look inside" to check if you can understand.
To help, notation is algebraic with figurines, one of the few ebooks with this feature!

Enjoy the reading, and play well.

Rodolfo Pardi, librarian, FSI (Italian Chess Federation) instructor and Tournament director

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Country	USA
Author	Rodolfo Pardi
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	4
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Gatteria
Manufacturer	Gatteria
NumberOfPages	196
PublicationDate	2014-02-17
Publisher	Gatteria
ReleaseDate	2014-02-17
Studio	Gatteria

A dreadful Chess Trap: Blackburne Shilling

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