QUICKEST CHECKMATE FULL

QUICKEST CHECKMATE FULL

Click the image below for more details! You can also get a free preview of the full course – Short&Sweet: The Modern Defence. I am the author of a Chessable course about the Modern Defence. Out of desperation, I started playing some nonsense openings and simply hope for the miracle. However, already then I got crushed in blitz quite badly.

There I have spent quite some time playing blitz against IM Leon Livaić (who was “only” a 2050 Candidate Master at a time). In fiction, checkmate more often than not comes as a complete surprise, leaving the losing player baffled and the winning player smug about his intellectual superiority. However, many years after the game above, I was playing in the Split open 2013 tournament. Usually, the end of a chess game is marked by one player knowing they are about to lose and either resigning or fighting as hard as they can until there is no hope. f3 Qh4# 1-0 your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerptsĪfter this debacle, one would expect that I have learnt the lesson and that I would never fall for something similar. I much prefer to use the King’s knight and move it in front of the kill square, removing the possibility of these checkmates as well. This leaves an opening beside it, but can easily be closed with the next move. Only the player playing the White pieces can become a victim of the two move checkmate.Ĭonsidering that such a checkmate arises only after a terrible play on White’s part, this checkmate is also known as the Fool’s mate.Īn example game featuring the Fool’s mate is shown below. A defense of both types of checkmate can be to move the King’s Bishop’s pawn up one square. And we are going to start with the fastest of them all – The two move checkmate or the Fool’s mate. Therefore, fast checkmates are the main theme of this article. That question regards the least amounts of moves required to checkmate the adversary King right out of the opening. GLEN ATHOL, the QUICKEST ROUTE FROM CHICAGO Clover urd all the fine grasses do well, while there is no to. However, I would like to focus on answering one particular question that often fascinates the minds of beginners and novice players. For instance, when we are playing the game, we are searching for the best move we are willingly entering lengthy discussions about the comparative greatness of Fischer and Kasparov, etc. Heck, our obsession went so far that a separate body was created that publishes an annual book which documents all the unnecessary achievements of the humanity.Ĭhess players are not an exception. We are constantly trying to determine who is the biggest, the strongest, the most intelligent, the greatest ever, etc. We human tend to get obsessed with the superlatives in any field of human activity.

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