Fool's mate 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 if White commits an extraordinary blunder. Even among rank beginners, the mate almost never occurs in practice. An example of Fool's Mate consists of the moves: resulting in the position shown. The pattern can have slight variations; Black could play ...e6 or ...e5, and White
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