Today's topic is triangulation. We will cover a neat technique that will help you to win chess endgame positions in which it seems that's impossible to make a progress.  The triangulation is applicable in such endgame positions where you would like to lose a tempo, keeping position the same. In other words if it's not your move, but your opponent's the game is won for you.

I know you might think, 'What? Why do we want to lose a move, when we struggle so much to get a tempo in the opening or in the middle game?'  Endgames are completely different animals, sometimes to win a game we need to give up a move opportunity in order to drive the opponent's King away from the important square.

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.