Very cheap strategy at bullet

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Chess4001

At bullet, some people as either white or black do a cheap trick I'm calling the "fools' trap." When you open up a diagnol for your queen, they immediately blunder their bishop at a spot so it's attacking your queen. Those poor people who move too fast gets their queen snared, but if they notice, they'll take the bishop with their queen. That happens most of the time, but this is the part that sore losers take part in: they immediately RESIGN. Sadly, they get away scot-free on rating because mostly when doing the fools' trap, it takes around 3 moves or less (<3 moves played would not result in rating change). I had experience with this before when some people did it to me. 

 

The first time someone did it, they actually took my queen Surprised

The second time someone did it, I took their bishop and he/she resigned Yell

This happened to me frequently. I became curious and tried it once. Believe it or not, I actually beat a couple 2200's using this trap Laughing and I quite enjoyed it Innocent! But I stopped because I think it's a very cheap tactic to use.

Dragec
premove queen hunt. single bullet, if they miss they resign.
Dragec
OP, if you tried the trap once, you couldn't beat couple of 2200's.
Coopah

I suppose must tactics like that work in 1 minutes games, unless your opponents are really quick

Danishhasan

I use this tactic and it helped me move from 1200 to 1500 on Lichess. I get the queen 30-40% of the time. I don't resign if my bishop gets picked. But then 1 min games are mostly speed games and being down a bishop isn't death at my rating level.

ChessNerd49
Actually, why do people bump these threads?