Jobava London | SURPRISE checkmate! Quick Wins #44

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chess noob Quick Wins! is a series of short videos, to demonstrate very quick wins!  As a beginner, you become aware of the Scholar's Mate and the Fool's Mate, but neither of these show up in real games.  However, there are tricky quick checkmates and wins that occur, even at the intermediate level of chess.

Today's game is from one of my subscribers @TFossS with a very interesting line and perfectly PRISTINE play, rated at 100% accuracy, in the Jobava London system!  They achieve a beautiful SURPRISE checkmate on move 9!

Now I don't play the London system, so this is a very interesting game for me as I'm not familiar with the opening.  The game starts with a slightly unusual move order, but transposes to the Jobava London opening on move 3 (1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5).  Curiously, Black's "two knights" response is an inaccuracy as White immediately has a double attack on c7.  This almost looks like a queenside version of the knight attack from the Fried Liver.

Then from move 5, both Black and White play logical moves - there's captures in the centre, and then on move 7, Black strikes with a dangerous looking pawn fork (7... c6) of White's knight and queen, who seem over extended.  White plays the only move that makes sense with (8. Nd6+).  Black plays an assertive but somewhat sensible looking move with (8... Ke7), moving out of check and threatening the knight. with the queen under attack by the pawn on c6, it seems that White's aggressive forward momentum has been refuted...  Except for (9. Qxf7#)! When I first saw this, I had to look a second time to confirm it was indeed checkmate!  I imagine Black had to do the same!  Surprise checkmate, GG!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/82831341499