Elephant Trap is the trap for White that occurs in a popular variation of Queen's Gambit Declined. White pins the Black's f6 knight and captures the d5 pawn not realizing that it's actually them who blundered and about to lose a piece, and most likely a game. It is a 'must to know' trap to have in your repertoire if you are a d4 player or/and if you often face 1.d4.

Not only it will help you win some online blitz games, but it also can trick an unaware yet greedy over the board opponent and bring you an easy win.  It also helps to know the classical traps so that you don't become a victim of one and lose a game prematurely without the fight..It's never good.

All chess players have lost games. All chess players have lost games while being in a good position, maybe up some material. It is usually the most painful experience when you lose a chess game that you were winning just a move before. A little, tiny thing you do in one second can ruin previous hours of concentrated work and great amount effort put throughout the game.

The price of a wrong move is too high in chess. For instance, in basketball you can make a mistake, allow your opponent to score and you can keep playing and still have a good chance winning the game. In the game of chess if you drop your queen or miss a mate there is no way you can recover. Chess players are all different, but in one thing they all the same: no one likes losing.

I have always emphasized that tactics is one of the most important elements of chess on any level, and especially for the novice players.   By perfecting tactical vision a chess player will be able to "see" more things going on at any chess game.

Not only will tactics helps to attack, fork and checkmate your opponent, but also it will shield you away from the opponent's tricks winning and saving tons of games.

Due to the importance of tactics, there are multiple sections on this website dedicated  to it: Tactics Gym, Daily Tactics from Shredder and Chess Studies.  Feel free to browse them and chose the ones which benefit you the most.