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Saturday 28 July 2012

"Fool's Mate"

The shortest game that exists in chess!

In one of Friday's matches we have seen this happen the second time for JJ.

The first time was at the Top Schools District Playoff's in the very first round.

It goes like this:
1. f3   e3
2. g4  Qh5#


The end of the board looks like this:


The second shortest, that I know of anyway, is commonly known as the "Four move", there are to many different variations that black can play, that I'm not going to put up a notation, but you can click on the following link to watch a short 44sec video clip that explain the 'four-move' checkmate.


or 
you can click on the link below, to go to a diagram:

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