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Legal Trap
One of the methods of fast checkmate in chess game
One of the methods of fast checkmate in chess game
The Legal Trap or Blackburne Trap (also known as Legal Mate) is a chess opening trap, characterized by a queen sacrifice followed by checkmate involving three minor pieces if Black accepts the sacrifice. The trap is named after the French player Sire de Legall. Joseph Henry Blackburne, a British master and one of the world's top five players in the latter part of the 19th century, set the trap on many occasions.
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