Ruy Lopez, Mortimer Trap this pitfall had a vogue for many years." Today, 4...Ne7 is rarely seen, and is not mentioned in either "Modern Chess Openings" (which relegates 4.d3 to a footnote, and mentions only 4...d6 in response) or the "Encyclopedia of Chess Openings" (which mentions only 4...d6 and 4...Bc5). Bibliography Ruy Lopez, Mortimer Trap The Mortimer Trap is a chess opening trap in the Ruy Lopez named after James Mortimer. The Mortimer Trap is a true trap in the sense that Black deliberately plays an inferior move hoping to trick White into making a mistake. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5
Tactical wargame on the then-ongoing Cold War, called "Red Star/White Star: Tactical Combat in Western Europe in the 1970s". While the game was successful, Dunnigan was disappointed with it, citing difficulties in realistically portraying tactical combat in a tabletop board game. Dunnigan tried to take tactical games into a new direction in 1973 with "KampfPanzer" and "Desert War", which featured simultaneous movement, expanding on an optional rule for PanzerBlitz. Unfortunately, the quest for greater realism was having a price in complexity and "bookkeeping", or recording of moves on paper. Nonetheless, other tactical games on a man to man level were released with