Fool's mate king at f8 with 6...Bg7 would have prolonged the game. White still wins with 7.Qf5! Nf6 8.Bh6 Bxh6 9.gxh7 Bxh1 (9...e6 opens another flight square at e7; then White checks with 10.Qg6+ Ke7) 10.Qg6+ Kf8 11.Qxh6+ Kf7 12.Nh3, but much slower than in the game. Fool's mate In chess, Fool's Mate, also known as the Two-Move Checkmate, is the checkmate in the fewest possible number of moves from the start of the game. This can be achieved only by Black, who can deliver checkmate on move 2 with the queen. Fool's Mate received its name because it can only occur
Tamerlane chess 50 move draw in Tamerlane chess. A public chess club in Jamestown, NY, named Tamerlane Chess Club, is dedicated to this game as well as other Ancient Chess Variants. Tamerlane chess Tamerlane chess is a strategy board game related to chess and derived from chaturanga. It was developed in Persia during the reign of Timur (Timur's Chess), also called Tamerlane (1336–1405). Some sources attribute the game's invention to Timur, but this is by no means certain. Because Tamerlane chess is a larger variant of chaturanga, it is also called "Shatranj Kamil" (Perfect Chess) or "Shatranj Al-Kabir" (Large Chess or Great