Scholar's mate Bibliography Scholar's mate In chess, Scholar's Mate is the checkmate achieved by the following moves, or similar: The same mating pattern may be reached by various move orders. For example, White might play 2.Qh5, or Black might play 2...Bc5. In all variations, the basic idea is the same: the queen and bishop combine in a simple mating attack on f7 (or f2 if Black is performing the mate). Scholar's Mate is sometimes referred to as the "Four-Move Checkmate", although there are other ways to checkmate in four moves. Unlike Fool's Mate, which rarely occurs at any level, games ending in
Chess game collection format. Chess game collections can be categorized by: 1. OTB (Over the board) 2. Correspondence 3. Online played games 4. Engines vs engine 5. Engine vs human 6. Puzzles 7. mid games 8. endgames Chess game collection The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e.g. "My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937" by Alexander Alekhine), annotations of games from a single tournament, collections of chess games covering a certain period of time (e.g. "Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games. Vol.1 1485-1866" by Levy and O'Connell), opening move collections, or collections centered on tactical or