Yah that is the best checkmate you will never see

Lol it worked only on a like 558 so lol ya it would work.

How is it even possible to be rated 558?

But one person is on 0 rating.

I have found the fastest game!

I wonder if the "Scholar's Mate" was named after the "scholastics" of the Late Middle Ages. It certainly looks like it is the kind of thing that would be invented very early in the "Mad Queen's" game and be abused often, especially against the "newbies".

It sounds silly, but in a series of about 7 games against my niece, I got a checkmate in 4-6 moves with some variant of the Scholar's Mate in five of the games. I don't say this to brag, of course. I was trying to use it as a teaching tool so that she could build up her ability to recognize threats. A consistent punishment along a consistent path is a great way to illustrate that winning or losing in chess is a matter, not of luck, but of playing the best moves. It also is a handy way to introduce the fact that that pawn (the f pawn) is "the weakest link" insofar as it is protected only by the king at the start of the game, a fact which is the springboard of many mating patterns early in a chess game.

1. E4 E5 2. BC4 NF6!!!

1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nc6

That's not a checkmate because  Black knight H6 is in perfect position to kill White Queen F7, the checking piece.

As you said, that's one of the ways to block it. 

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