Opening Queen Tactics by Illion

When we start to play for the first time atomic it's easy to miss the most popular mate.

The "Fool's mate" theme can appear in middlegames; always consider the weaknesses created whenever g4 or ...g5 is played.
Like in regular chess, this weakens the h5-e8 diagonal excessively, and since it's atomic this is already fatal even without ...f6.

This pawn advance weakens f5 and d5 and the light diagonals h3-c8 and a2-g8, and in this position is already bad for tactical reasons.
2...Qf6 is best but still bad for black due to tactics.
White forks d7 and f7, winning next move. d5 is a very strong square for the queen.

Defending the d5 square (by occupying it directly), but still allowing white a queen manoeuvre to gain an advantage.
e5 is unguarded, and from there white attacks c7 with tempo (Qxe7# is threatened.)
White has won significant material (pawn and knight).

1. e4 e5, the most normal of chess openings is fatal for black in atomic. White has forced mate.
The manoeuvre Qd1-h5-h3-d7 resembles a ribbon and was named as such by Rekursiv. It works here because (a) 1...e5 weakened the light diagonal, (b) black's d-pawn has not moved and (c) ...f5 is met by exf5.

This pawn advance weakens f5 and d5 and the light diagonals h3-c8 and a2-g8, and in this position is already bad for tactical reasons.
2...Qf6 is best, but still bad for black due to tactics. 2...Nf6 prevents Qd5, but loses to 3. Qf5.
Slipping in through the diagonal weakened by ...e5.

Weakens the h3-c8 diagonal. In combination with the weakened g6 square, this proves fatal.
Threatening Qxd7. Black's f-pawn is overloaded, having to defend g6 and block with f5.

Defends against Nb5, Nd5 and Qd5, but white's threat lies elsewhere. 4...Ng4 5. f4 was better first to close the queen's diagonal.
Because black's e-pawn hasn't yet moved, Qg5 is immediately lethal. You might also have recognised Qe5 as another tactic, but here that "only" wins material.
Several times I also get mated by this tricky one

White threatens to win with Qxd8# or Qe7#. Black has to lose the knight by playing 7...Qxg5 (or 7...Qf6 8. Qxg6). I call this the "skim" because white "skims" off the black knight by sliding the queen just in front of it.

The original hook line. At first glance, Qb6 looks like a mouse slip, but upon closer inspection black cannot accept the gift. The point is that if 7...axb6, 8. Bb5 will recover the material with interest. A wonderfully picturesque move.
I think the most popular opening from 1800-2100 rated players.