Two Knights, Open Italian | 10 Move Checkmate! Quick Wins #25
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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.
This is another quick wins from one of my most prolific subscribers in this genre @shlomo55555 . This game shows how surprises can be lurking in the most common of openings, the Italian!
My subscriber plays the delightful Two Knights, Open game (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d4). After the pawn captures, the move to know for Black is (5... d6) as Black must be able to guard the f7 pawn/square, and the light square diagonal. In this game, Black didn't realise this and played the sensible bishop developing move (5... Bc5) which is a blunder [+4.8]. Because White now has the great devastating fork with (6. Qd5) - the queen forming a battery with the bishop on the light square diagonal staring at f7 (and mate-in-1 threat) and attacking the off-side Black knight on e4. Black plays the next couple of moves accurately, but White has an overwhelming attack on Black's king, and on move 10, White scores a very clean win by checkmate with (10. Qxh7#). GG!
Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/71186742167
