Scholar's mate
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title:
Scholar's mate
text:
In chess, scholar's mate is the checkmate achieved by the following moves, or similar:
- 1. e4 e5
- 2. Qh5 Nc6
- 3. Bc4 Nf6??
- 4. Qxf7# The same mating pattern may be reached by various move orders. For example, White might play 2.Bc4. In all variations, the basic idea is the same: the queen and bishop combine in a simple mating attack, occurring on f7 for White or on f2 for Black. Scholar's mate is sometimes referred to as the four-move checkmate, although there are other ways for chec
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Checkmate position
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date created:
2004-02-22T00:27:36Z
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2024-09-06T04:02:07Z
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