6-Move Brilliancy

6-Move Brilliancy

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This is the earliest brilliancy that I've achieved: 6 moves.

I had very rarely played this opening and I was on the look-out for traps. It seemed like I could exploit Nd7, since it was covering its queen and couldn't move away, lest we trade queens and force the black king to move.

I saw my opportunity with Bf7+; if the king took it, I could go Ne5+. If the knight took I could take the queen. I could also see other moves that would lead to mate, such as Ke8, and a fork with the rook. I ended up getting a rook.