I see this just one time... lol!!!

I have known this trap for years, but I find it strange that it should be called "Fool's Mate".  After all, only one line of attack to the "Fool's King" is made available; so, White is not being so foolish as to open up the entire mid-section!  By a quirk of the geometry of the chess board, there is a very quick refutation.  But, it is not such a foolish agenda.

Yes that is the fastest way, only if you are playing a 7 year old child, a true fools mate is 4 moves or less.

u could also do the same move by playing f4 , g4 instead of f3 , g4 but anyway its the same thing...... you get checkmated either way!

I won my game in 4 move in National tmt!!!!!!!!

How did you do that???    even i can't do it to my classmate???

i used this two days ago, it work but i'm tryng to get better.

white must have been a very inexpirience player to fall for that

i pity the fool

I pity the fool also, I thought it was impossible to win with less than 10 moves.

the begginer need to take note !! don't do it in tournament !!

Has anyone played this?

that wouldnt work on my 7 year old

How many people has this actually happened to? I'm just curious since, even with my minimal talents I never had it happen to me. Scholar's mate yes, when I was younger, but not fools mate!

nice

i once won in just one move

i am the best 

it would be interesting to see if anyone has the front to own up to having been caught out by fools mate. come on folks, spill the beans. i beat a bloke, (probably a child actually) in four moves thus;

it appears i made a pigs ear of that diagram lol but one gets my drift. while ive got your attention, i remember a few years ago, getting my butt kicked by a woman no less, in a really clever sequence. it involves no more than ten moves and a sacrificed queen. could anybody show me how this is done please so i can get my rating up at the expence and embarrassment of younger inexperienced players. (only joking). i forget how to do it and i thought it was brilliant. thanks

If I tried that on dad, he would check mate me instantly.

90 some % of the time u will not see that happen in any game u would play and I can"t even do that to a inexperince play how is just learning and I am not telling them anything period.they would have to be very dum.

i can't believe that this could actually happen in a tournament!

oh my! i too wondeer if this ever happened in a tounament? if yes, white must be really inexperienced and ashamed. lol

wow and i thought i was good its an old trick but its an effective but a real fools mate is done in 4 moves or less

yikes

I've won at least one game of Fool's mate against a novice player.  However, I've won at least three games against regular chess players as White with Legal's mate back in the '70s. 

it is easy for new players only and some of happiness :)

 

lol

I think the first winner of the Fool's mate is that the inventor of the Fool's mate. It was probaly that he won it to his opponent or he invented it as a chess puzzle.

only if i knew what that was....sorry peeps...im new to this..just become my freind foe me and teach me or play me please

It´s so hard to get it

I hate to say it, but I've fallen for that a few times (in my early days of course).  Now I'm praying that someone slips up so I can try it for a change. 

A couple of years ago my kid went to a school district tournament (not USCF).  I was shocked to see some of the younger kids were using this--and successfully.  The good news is that at least they were using a plan, and they understood it.  The bad news is that the queen brought out too early went unpunished!

If i recall correctly, I may have fallen for that two or three times (it took me that long to learn not to play that particular sequence. I have also fallen for the 'four move fool's mate'. I've learned since then.

Fool's mate is always can be prevented unless you oppenant is not so good in chess.

The better fool's mate should be...

 

 

Does anyone Know the four move fools mate im just interested as im new to chess

that's sweet!

I've heard of fools mate, but I've never actually seen it happen.  It's such an unusual opening that I wonder if I ever will.  I have seen the 4 move checkmate a few times... albeit against inexperienced players. It's funny when your opponet sits down for what everyone expects to be a long game of chess, only to lose the game in less than 2 minutes.

awesome

If an inexperienced player you are facing opens with 1. f4, proceed with 1...e5 and see if they might back their pawn up with 2. g3!
If they do 2...exf4 3. gxf4 Qh4# mates :)

thanks for telling me!

no one will do this,what if they didn't move the move u want them to,u will lose a move

i did it the other day playing against the best player in my school!! it was so funny... he couldn't believe he forgot that move... i have myself tried to get caught out.. never happened

No offense, but, who's that stupid to leave a big opening like that?

with kings gambit you can find the kingside pretty weak if they don't move the king's knight out early.  It's pretty much the same idea if they don't move the knight; just get your queen in there and wreak havoc.

TonyGas: "i remember a few years ago, getting my butt kicked by a woman no less" ... Did you really just say that?!

My friend did it in a state tournament years ago. At least he said he did...

Here is another layout i find foolish:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

although this is a trap rather than foolishness 

 

I pitty the fools who fall for that

nice trap lupu 1001

I heard BongCloud mated a guy in only 2 moves with his king.

whoever falls for a fools mate ought to be very ashamed of themselves! lol

......i have never know anyone who fell for that..

I TRIED to make my opponnent  see this,they just tried to do something else

This trap is a classic. Works on most 1260 or below, however, it was successful on a 1440 on one occasion.

FUN MOVE 2 TRY ON A BEGINNER 1NCE OR 2WICE--BUT IT NEVER WORX ON THE CPU--

that would never happen in a game

 

It doesn't work in all honesty I mean I can't just see a chess player falling for that. Though I have used Scholars mate a few times before.

 Also that one mate Lupu1001 is  really good.

WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who would be foolish enough to move their pawns in that fashion on their first two moves?!!  It's an awesome diagram.  Now I get to teach my chess students the 2 move chess and watch them be in awe.

thats a stupid checkmate because what are the chances of your opponent doing those 2 moves

I'd laugh so hard if a grandmaster fell for that.

True!

I've made this mate once, although the moves were slightly different...my darksquare bishop delivered the final blow =)

Yes.. Pretty foolish. The first one will only be possible is your playin a begginer.

yea but these few move checkmate don't really work as it is presented. people don't even fall for easy checkmate unless they were amatures at paying

i did it too- couldn't believe it because you only hear about these things but never think you can pull it off!  If you can check my past games it was versus "justo"!

Hmmm.... i like to win thats all that maters :)

 fool and famus

lupu1001, why didn't black do this?

1. f3

is a bland opening anyhow. 

I think Fool' Mate is really done to first timer in chest. You don't make opennings like that if you play chess a lot. If you win by that move, I guarantee you your opponent has no knwoledge in chess playing.

wow this is cool!

nice, lupu mate i liked too.

Meet the fool! I was on the recieving end of Fool's Mate years ago at school. Highly embarrasing to say the least! I was playing in an inter-house school competition at the time!! Took a while to live it down.

this is a foolish game

Actually it's my favorite game!!!!!!!!!!

I was dying to play chess with my new chess set I recieved one Christmas. My trouble was finding someone to play. I had played a few games with my neighbor friends (enough to know how the pieces moved) but they were not really into it. My uncle was over and I asked him to show me how to play. He did not want to. I asked again and again, then finally set up the board in front of him and made my first move. Uncle Jim gave in and made a move. I made my second move and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the game was over! I was checkmated!!!

I said "lets play again". He refused, and never played me again, ever.

It was my most inspirational game. I have tryed to improve and learn ever since. It was truly humiliating!

Glad to have reviewed this as I watched it happen twice in my life. Love this game..if its a foolish game I am the fool:-)

I like that mate

In 1963 I was in Naples and my opponent played in a similar way, but with f4 and g4. Having seen the mate, he asked me for repeating the game, but I refused because the match was not individual, it was a match Rome - Naples. Signed the point we played another game like friends and...he won!

I have never encountered this checkmate before. when I first learned chess, I quickly came to know the scholar's mate, courtesy of a high school friend.

The Fool's Mate is Awesome!!!

ADK

i have never had fools mate done on me

With the chess games I've played against my friend, and I have honestly never seen anyone do that to one another there. It's an interesting thing to know if you're up against a beginner, though - like me. If I tried that against someone - friend or otherwise - my opponent probably'd see through it in an instant. -_- 

well played

I was really frustrated into making this mistake. I must admit!

A string of too many losses and the need to try anything different led to it.

lupu1001

Here's another early checkmate.

Scholer's mate. And yes, that was englund gambit declined transposed into danish gambit accepted.

I had it happen to me when I was in grade 2 (7 years old) in the first game I played at Chess club. Needless to say, I never returned.

there have been about 15 GMs that have fallen for the fools mate

they play f4,e6

then g4 and mate

This 'trap' sucks! Who would fall for this??????

i havent ever see a fool mate !!! its terrible and fantastic at the same !!!

huh! I already knew  that checkmate style when I was in preschool...lol hahahahaha

Why would anyone even want to move g2-g4? Sounds kinda stupid...

I've only seen this happen once.

from lupu's trap black plays ...5 Nxe5 and black is up material, he wins the knight and the bishop and loses his light square bishop

legals mate, the queen sacrfice, was used in the nineteenth centuary by blackburne, so i read somewere.

no one opens that way!

this is fool's mate:

The only thing I must correct is that not because one is a primary scholar nor a young child you would play that. Does anyone remember young Kasparov? I think we shouldn't make any assumption, as the serious chess players we are. 

If anyone falls for this then their stupid......... omg

i have never seen that cheak and mate!

   now,

               i will use it against my frends.

i lked this style.

This move happened to me once :S.