Common Opening Traps and Blunders 1. e4 Part 3 by CraftyRaf & IM Andras Toth

Here Are 285 Ways To
Pick Those Easy, “Low-Hanging” Wins
And Rating Points

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. — Savielly Tartakower, 20th century chess legend

Below master level, you don’t have to wait long.

In a fun but revealing experiment, we looked at a small, randomly picked sample of 30 games between players rated 1500 to 2000 Elo. Guess what we found: one side blundered before move 12 in 83% of the games!

If the overwhelming majority of opponents are going to serve you the win on a silver platter, wouldn’t you want to grab it with both hands?

Of course you would! And International Master Andras Toth and Raf Mesotten will reveal how it’s done.

Toth is a primary school teacher turned blockbuster chess instructor, while Mesotten is an analytics expert whose course creation skills are legendary in the Chessable community.

Altogether, they have published 21 interactive chess courses and amassed over 1,400 four-to-five-star ratings from satisfied students.

The duo combines their expertise to bring you Common Traps & Blunders 1.e4: Part Three. It’s a tactics course which helps club players punish blunders and set potent opening traps from either side after 1.e4…

Winning Convincingly Before
The Game Has Even Warmed Up!

Every chess player has opened with their e-pawn at some point in their career. Even if you don’t play it as White, more than half of your games as Black will start with 1.e4.

It’s full of devious tricks, traps and “opportunities” to blunder, and…

Common Traps & Blunders 1.e4: Part Three will show you how to tweak these hidden resources to your advantage — whichever side you’re playing.

Here are more reasons to love the course:

🔥 The authors dug through 2,000-plus games using the strict 7-point selection process shown inside… and came up with 285 exercises which hone your eye for winning tactics.

🔥 Pump up your blunder-busting skills. PLUS, discover the fine art of setting multipurpose traps which — not only give your opponent plenty of chances to go wrong — but also secure a lasting positional advantage.

🔥 Over 5 hours of move-by-move breakdowns by IM Andras Toth, which simplify tricky combinations into “rules of thumb” you can easily remember.

🔥 This tactics course grows with you. The positions were taken from Lichess databases with an average rating of 1600 to 2500 to keep you sharp as you climb the rating ladder.

🔥 The blunders in the course each have been played at least 200 times. People will keep falling for these game-losing mistakes, and you’ll clean their clock every time they do.

🔥 Only the most reliable sources. Forget about blitz and bullet, where mistakes are too obvious to have any training value. The engaging exercises inside were taken from rapid and classical games, and they’ll push your tactical ability to the next level.

🔥 Over 60% of the openings you’ll face after 1.e4, covered. Take on the Sicilian, Caro-Kann, French Defense, Scandinavian, and other sidelines popular at the club level.

Best part? Common Traps & Blunders 1.e4 Part Three is a course you can and would love to complete in a month.

If you spend only an hour watching the videos and drilling 10 new exercises per day, you can’t help but become scary good at punishing blunders and winning before the opening is over.

The first day will introduce you to a handful of tricks, including a queen sacrifice on move 7. On day five, you complete the first chapter and your confidence gets a nice boost.

By day 15, you begin to connect the themes and patterns from earlier exercises with completely different positions, unlocking a new level in your tactical understanding.

And by day 29, not only have you added all 285 positions to your “mental database” of chess positions… you also now know a good chunk of them by heart.

So when identical positions pop up in your games, your hand simply reaches for the right piece… plays the winning combination… and collects the full point almost on auto-pilot.