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Which opening to choose? traps vs main line.

what i mean that can i play traps for tournaments because i already know many or should i play main lines?
Traps that leave you completely lost if your opponent knows the trap should probably be avoided in any tournament. And saying you should play them in bullet is surreal to me since quite often bullet players know openings and traps in great depth because they need to be able to play them quickly from memory in order to have most of their clock for the critical tactics of the middle game.

There's plenty of traps you can play for without losing though, especially ones in which you can bait your opponent into the trap without giving up position (stuff like the opening snare in the Queen's Gambit Accepted if Black tries to hang onto the pawn with b5, or the Fishing Pole, these are solid trap lines to play because you don't have to play bad moves to bait the hook).

I'd say honestly blitz is where traps work best because players feel like they have enough time to refute bad openings and so they don't study them as in depth. Classical players are more likely to spend a lot of time and depth if they encounter something they don't recognize and simply play good moves and avoid the traps. Bullet players are either not going to play into your trap line by playing some irregular opening right from the start or they are going to have enough opening knowledge to know your trap.

Regardless, though, probably best to stick to solid opening lines that have a trap or two in them you can hope for.
it all depends on your opponent and the stakes. in general take risks against higher rated players and play solid against lower rated players
Good advice #5 but would you consider playing some rare and unsound trap line against a strong player an acceptable "risk" or just certainly suicide? lol I think one could play very active openings, even gambits against strong players, but maybe just playing for a trap is not the best solution. Traps generally only work if your opponent falls for the trap, and often times if the snare fails, you are just stuck with a worse position. These sort of lines I think are more useful against weaker players who are less likely to recognize the trap.
An example to append to that post:

When I was in the 1400-1500 rating range I found quite a lot of opponents who liked to meet e4-e5 with the Wayward Queen attack. I will admit I lost a few games to these players because I wasn't sure how to counter this completely non-intuitive opening with all its traps. But once I found the proper continuations, I don't think I ever came out of that opening without a strong advantage. Sometimes I even managed to embarass their queen entirely. I think these are the kinds of openings the OP is talking about in terms of tournament play. I don't think it's smart, honestly, at least not against anyone who is a strong enough player to indicate they are probably aware of how to win against those sorts of trap openings.
The Lasker's Trap in the albin counter gambit is quite good. You should try it out.

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