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Everyone that plays chess will come across the three fastest ways to win, but in most cases will experience the quickest checkmate moves on the wrong side of the board. Whilst one player has to make the correct moves to win the chess game super quick, the other has to play their part by making the mistakes that lead to these quick wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fastest way to win a game of chess is in two moves in an opening called ‘Fool’s Mate’ which takes advantage of the player with the white pieces making two consecutive moves with pawns on the F and G files opening the King to a defenseless, lost position.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the Fool’s mate two-move checkmate, there is also the Scholar’s Mate with which is often confused as the fastest but takes four moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are more basic checkmates including the Smothered mate, which can be achieved in just 3 moves for black from the starting position, and those three moves use only one piece (Who says you shouldn’t move the same piece twice in the opening? Well, you shouldn’t really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These wins do require some effort on your part but in most cases, and especially in the case of the Fool’s Mate, as a player, you have to advantage of opponents’ mistakes rather than forcing the win yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In essence, the player across the board is gifting your the opportunity to win the game with a fast checkmate strategy<\/a> by jumping on their poor mistakes, probably as a real novice chess player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s have a look at the fastest mates of the enemy King in more detail, so you can understand how to identify the moves and jump on the chance to win by one of these methods should the opportunity arise. And then we will move on to some more quick checkmate you might not have heard of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fool’s Mate (2 Move checkmate)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fastest checkmate moves possible in chess<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Fool’s Mate?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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