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fools mate

 
17th January 2009, 09:29pm
#1
by jubilousfire
India
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 183

Fool's mate, also known as the "two-move checkmate", is the quickest possible checkmate in the game of chess.

The checkmate occurs extremely rarely in actual games, since it requires the player with the White pieces to be a willing accomplice in his own downfall.

There are several possible variations on the Fool's Mate, all of which result in White being checkmated after just 2 moves, but the most common form is:

1.f3 e5 2.g4 Qh4#

18th January 2009, 12:16pm
#2
by mm_202
Florida United States
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 50

Just to graphically show what jubilousfire is taking about :)

17th October 2009, 05:29am
#3
by gksalf10
Seoul South Korea
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 769

Any other variation?

25th October 2009, 09:22am
#4
by mtjstr9997
Salt Lake City United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 220

I played a game once that went 1. f4...d4, 2. g4...e4, 3. f5... well, you know the rest of the story.

28th March 2010, 11:51pm
#5
by WolfLeader
Indianapolis United States
Member Since: Jun 2009
Member Points: 6236

u guys know the fool's fork???

 

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