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Unlike Fool’s mate, Scholar’s mate often occurs in games of beginners. The main idea of Scholar’s mate
is that “f7” square is weak since it’s being protected by the king alone. Remember, I told you that it is unwise to rely on traps in serious games? Scholar’s mate is a perfect example to show that. After 1.e4 e5 2. Qh5
Black does not have to reply with 2…Nc6. Instead Black can play 2…Nf6 driving the White’s Queen back and developing king’s knight at the same time. After white queen retreats to the safe square, say 3.Qh4, Black develops another piece: 3…Nc6, 3…Bc5 or 3…Be7 with discovered attack on white’s queen.
Fool’s mate is the quickest mate in the game of chess possible: in just 2 moves. Even in the games of beginners it rarely occurs. Now you know why it isn’t wise to start the game with 1.f3. It weakens White’s kingside in major way. Fool’s Mate just exploits this weakness right away.
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Like any board game there are a number of rules and tactics which should be understood. Chess is no different, and before you can contend with the all-time great chess players, a good strategy and basic knowledge of the game is required.
This was my first game in the Delaware Grand Prix Tournament Event #4 Round #1. The event was G29, which means 29 minutes per game for each player. Take a look at the game and I hope it will help you to avoid mistakes I have made. How to get the most from this game? First, go over the game moves by yourself and only after that read my comments going over the game 2nd time. Enjoy and learn!
This was my last game in the Delaware Grand Prix Tournament Event #4 Round #5. The event was G29, which means 29 minutes per game for each player. Take a look at the game and I hope it will help you to avoid mistakes I have made. How to get the most from this game? First, go over the game moves by yourself and only after that read my comments going over the game 2nd time. I played White. Enjoy and learn!
The game I played against 2250+ rated program. The name of the program is Parrot, it often plays on FICS.
Here is one of my games I played on FICS against relatively high rated opponent. Take a look, it was a good fight! Read the comments below as you scroll through the moves.
About The Author of this Chess Lectures Series ~ My name is Asgard Rambaldi, my elo is 2274 (Peak rating 2338), I’m from Never ever land ~ This channel is exclusively about chess.. Meaning that I don’t use it for anything but Creating and Watching chess videos, posting comments, rating and subscribing chess-material I’m playing the FICS server where my handle is Opinel I have decided to create an account on You Tube mainly because I want to help people learn this ancient game. I have studied many things in my life (Computer science, nutrition and am currently a med student) but none as profound as chess (schach-mat), I’ve learned a lot about life through chess!
