This quick chess game achieves Mate in 4 Moves. It’s a cunning trap – elsewhere on this site, we mention that it can be strategically advantageous to sacrifice your Queen … such a ploy is demonstrated by Legall’s Mate. Named after French chess player, Legall de Kermeur, this strategy achieves Mate in 7 Moves. Like the quirky form of a Hippopotamus, this Checkmate strategy was named because of it’s ‘irregular opening’ – but it’s a Quick Chess game that can seal Checkmate in 6 Moves.Ĭonsidered a bad opening strategy by some ( see here) others point towards its merits as a great opening if you’re playing against an aggressive opponent, as the “Hippopotamus” is a counter-attacking strategy, for using when a swift defense is needed. Thus, this is the quickest of all quick chess games. This strategy involves a player being ‘foolish’ enough to expose his King to direct attack by his opponent’s Queen … And it all takes place with just 2 Moves, for both players! If you want to know the quickest of all routes to Checkmate, Fool’s Mate is it. The ‘Shilling’ bit refers to Blackburne’s habit of hustling in cafes, where he’d bet others a Shilling to play against him – he’d win by Checkmate in 7 Moves. This famous mate strategy is named after the Manchester (England) Chess player, Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924), also nicknamed “ Mr Black Death“.
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