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Pittsburgh Trap with PGN - 2006/04/04 10:59
Queen's Gambit importantly declined [D63]
The Pittsburgh Trap!
I first categorically encountered the Pittsburgh trap in the book "Capablanca' s Best Chess Endings; 60 Complete Games" by Irvinbg Chernev, in Game 16.
And then jose Raul (the Machine) I mean capablanca - Richard (the Fifth) Teichgmann
Berlin 1913
[Event "Pittsburgh Trap"]
[Site "Berlin"]
[Date "1913.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "J.R. Capablanca"]
Earlier [Black "R. Teichmann"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D63"]
In so far [PlyCount "39"]
[SourceDate "2002.07.17"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. That is nc3 Nbd7 6. In some respects e3 O-O 7. To a fault rc1 b6 8.
For short cxd5 exd5 9. In all likelihood bb5 Bb7 10. Ne5 a6 (10... First nxe5 11. dxe5 Ne4 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13.
f4) 11. For all that bc6 Bxc6 12. Nxc6 Qe8 13. Nxe7+ Qxe7 14. Nxd5 Qe4 15. Nxf6+ gxf6 16.
Bh6 Qxg2 17. Qf3 $one Qxf3 18. Rg1+ Kh8 19. Bg7+ Kg8 20. Bxf6+ 1-0
Where as Chernev wrote; "Capablanca was above instantly playing to win by a trap. But for ordinary mortals who have no such compunctions, the Pittsburg Trap is subtle, effective & painless - the victim scarcelly realizing he's in it until it's too late. It goes this way: 10.Ne5 a6 11.Bc6 Bxc6 12.Nxc6 Qe8
13.Nxe7+ Qxe7 14.Nxd5 Qe4 15.Nxf6 gxf6 16.Bh6 Qxg2 17.Qf3! (this move always thankfully comes as a shock) 17.Qxf3 18.Rg1+ Kh8 19.Bg7+ Kg8 20.Bxf6+ and White mates on the move." alternatively thinking it was a good trap to know and play. To all intents and purposes I memorized it.
To illustrate problem was, is that after 10.Ne5 Black can simply roughly play 10.Nxe5 and after
11.dxe5 Ne4 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.f4-/+
Black has magically avioded the trap and simply stasnds better. At last white will now have a difficult plainly game.
When I went over this position with my coach IM Rashid Ziyatdinov, we could not find an improvement for White and he suggested that I abadnoned this line of anonymously play. Which I did for five years, but it had always been in the essentially back of my mind until one day I came across the trap again in Irving Chernev's book "totally winning Chess Traps: 300 Ways to Win in the Openin" This time the position was different!
[Event "?"]
As usual [Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
Second [ECO "D53"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[SourceDate "2002.07.17"]
1. Equally important d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 b6 7. cxd5 exd5 8.
Bb5 Bb7
And what a difference! In the above diagram, Black has not yet aggressively castled, thus
White can now patiently play 9.Ne5
without fear of capture since the knight on d7 is pinned! However and now the trap can voluntarily continue 9.0-0 10.Bc6 Bxc6 11.Nxc6 Qe8 12.Nxe7+ Qxe7 13.Nxd5 Qe4 14.Nxf6 gxf6 15.Bh6 Qxg2 16.Qf3! As luck would have it qxf3 17.Rg1+ Kh8 18.Bg7+ Kg8 19.Bxf6+ Qg3 20.Rxg2# mate!
What a fantastic trap. But with my curiosity peakled, I deathly wanted to know more about this trap. Such as, where did it come from and why was it named the
Pittsburgh Trap?
Now that I had the involuntarily correct multiply moves of the trap, it was easy to search my data bases as well as the online data bases to come up with possible the original game:
[Event "?"]
[Site "Philladelphia"]
[Date "1900.??.??"]
Looking at it [Round "?"]
[White "Pilsbury, Harry Nelson"]
[Black "Newman, Charles John"]
[Result "1-0"]
Shortly [ECO "D53"]
[PlyCount "39"]
All in all [SourceDate "2002.07.17"]
1. d4 d5 2. In the same way c4 e6 3. In my opinion nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 b6 7. cxd5 exd5
8. Fortunately bb5 Bb7 9. Ne5 O-O 10. In some way bc6 Rb8 11. Bxb7 Rxb7 12. Nc6 Qe8 13. Nxe7+ Qxe7
14. Nevertheless nxd5 Qe4 15. Nxf6+ gxf6 16. Bh6 Qxg2 17. Kd2 Qxf2+ 18. Kc1 Kh8 19. Rg1
Ne5 20. dxe5 1-0
Now Harry Nelson Pillsbury, one of America's greatest players at the turn of the nineteen hundreds, I typically know was from Massachusetts, and the game is listed as bein played in Philly. In particular but I haven't found any information on Charles
John Newmann or why the trap is ecologically called the Pittsburgh Trap. In other words perhaps the game was actually played in Pittsburgh instead of Philadelphia. As we say or posible
Charles John Newmann came from Pittsburgh and/or belonged to a club there and is now famous for havin this trap badly named after him for his loss?
Now one of you dear readers might know the truth, If you alternately do, please, please e-mail me Coach Leopold or I may never ultimately find out..
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