Queen's Gambit Declined, Rubinstein Trap

The Rubinstein - case is a well-known tactical motif in chess. It can be caused by various headways in the Queen's Gambit Declined.

For the first time the idea came in a game between Amos Burn and Henry Wolf at the chess tournament in Ostend in 1905 (Lot course in algebraic notation):

1 d2 -d4 d7 -d5 2 c4 e7 - e6 c2 - 3 Nb1 - c3 Ng8 - f6 - g5 4 Lc1 Bf8 - e7 5 Sg1 -f3 d7 6 Sb8 - e2 -e3 0-0 7 Ta1 -c1 a7 - a6 8 c4xd5 e6xd5 9 Lf1 -d3 Rf8 - e8 10 c7 - c6 0-0 Dd1 11 -c2 - h7 h6 ( 11 ... Nd7 -f8 is more accurate ) 12 Bg5 - f4 Nf6 - h5? ( Black would like the good runners posted abtauschen, but overlooks the white threat)

White won 13 by now Sc3xd5 a farmer since 13 ... c6xd5 prohibits Ladies profit for 14 Lf4 - c7. On 13 ... Sh5xf4 followed 14 Sd5xf4 and White won in the sequence the game.

While most opening traps are named in check by those players who have first applied successfully, the Rubinstein case is named after the Polish world class player Akiba Rubinstein, curiously enough in his career fell for twice on them. The two games ( against Max Euwe in Bad Kissingen in 1928 and Alexander Alekhine in San Remo 1930) did not run exactly the same, but the combination motive was the same. The chess historian Edward Winter mentions in his Chess Notes (No. 3354 ), four other similar examples from masters tournaments 1908-1924.