While you can actively try for Scholar's mate (and many weak amateurs fall for it), Fool's mate pretty much relies on very poor play by the opponent - advancing the f and g pawns such that the critical diagonal is fatally weakened. f7) point, while Fool's mate relies on a weakening of the diagonal from h5 (or. Scholar's mate relies on the opponent's insufficiently protected f2 (or. They rely on two different but highly important principles chess players should remember. The Scholar's and Fool's mates that others have cited are the shortest. One was a player rated 1873 who went on to lose to his 2202 opponent the other was rated 2264(!) and managed to win anyway against a 2113 on the black side. Most interestingly, on two of those 34 occasions, the white player failed to reply with 6. Alekhine's amateur foes were among the victims, and the highest rated victim was in a game Hans Speck (2140) - Nikolaus Mertens (2165) from the 1997 Liechtenstein Open. If you're still reading, you're probably curious: out of the 271 games I have on record, in only 34 of them did black fall into the trap with 5. A 2300 player also tried it out against Yasser Seirawan on the black side Seirawan didn't fall into the trap of course, but the 2300 did manage to get a draw out of the game. Qe2 appears, but one finds a few GMs giving it a go: Ivan Radulov, Oleg Nikolenko, Joe Gallagher (against as strong an opponent as IM Tibor Karolyi), even some guy named Alekhine (though, admittedly, only in a consultation game against a team of four amateurs). There are a mere 271 games in my database (out of several million) in which this 5. Qe2 just sets up a pin against Black's e-pawn, making the intended followup 5. Ng5 (an aggressive try which Kasparov assayed a number of times against Karpov). For a short mating possibility in a very standard mainline opening, one can look to the Smyslov-Karpov variation in the Caro-Kann Defense: ฤก.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Qe2 Ngf6? 6.Nd6#
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