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Fool's Mate: chess opening trap

The fastest mate in chess. Only works if White shreds their own king diagonal.

f3
e5
g4
Qh4#

The two-move mate
Queen swings in on the diagonal White ripped open. Fastest mate going.

Fool's Mate

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Fool's Mate

The fastest mate in chess. Only works if White shreds their own king diagonal.

Step 1 of 2

Fool's Mate

The idea

1...Pawn to e5 (e5)

Centre plus a clear lane for the queen.

The idea

2...Queen to h4, mate (Qh4#)

Queen on the open diagonal: no block, no escape.

The idea

1...Pawn to e5 (e5)

Centre plus a clear lane for the queen.

White's terrible first move: opens the diagonal to their own king.

Clean run

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Recall

2 more clean runs (at any point) to reach Recall.

Move 1 of 40%

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The fastest mate in chess. Only works if White shreds their own king diagonal.

The idea

1...Pawn to e5 (e5)

Centre plus a clear lane for the queen.

The idea

2...Queen to h4, mate (Qh4#)

Queen on the open diagonal: no block, no escape.

The idea

1...Pawn to e5 (e5)

Centre plus a clear lane for the queen.

Clean run

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Recall

2 more clean runs (at any point) to reach Recall.