My old e4 traps still work

@jposthuma thanks sir for your post it was very instructive!

As mentioned above a collection of traps is here (Black without exd4):

-> in #3, because I reached the daily of links. Once again.

Ah yes, Fischer's Bxf7+ with Qc4. It is likely going to work in years to come between amateurs.

The difference in bias people generally have against poor or suboptimal defences to 1.e4 compared to those found in 1.d4 is an interesting phenomenon. More tend to get upset when you call out their pet opening line to be unsound, while for 1.e4 openings it's almost universally accepted which lines are playable.

That being said, I fully agree—these are all classic traps, though the Hanham is extremely unpopular in my experience. My preferred move in OP's line is 7.Ng5

@jposthuma, thank you so much for the post! I already learned something new that I could have used in some of my chess.com games!

#14, I've found two long tournament games in my db with 7. Ng5, both 1:0. In Internetblitz I sometimes go "serve&volley". :D