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What is the minimum number of moves "white" could make to win this game?

Note: Assume that the black doesn't resign, but that he plays into white's gambit so as to lose the game as quickly as possible.


The answer is 3.

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Sai Ram by Sai Ram , 19, India

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5 solutions

Jingyang Tan
Jun 27, 2015

the checkmate is called fool's mate. it is supposing for black to win. f3, e4,g4,Qh4# checkmate but since the question wanted white to win, so it becomes: e4,f6,(any move which doesn't involves in the white queen's diagonal.) g4,Qh5# checkmate. This is the most dumb checkmate in the whole world to me.

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You are absolutely right

Sai Ram - 5 years, 11 months ago

It is actually not a checkmate at all. G6 stops this checkmate by blocking the queen. If the queen does not then move, or takes g6, then dies.

Robert Vincent Lee Kalvoda - 5 years, 7 months ago

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But, you have already moved your G pawn so you cant back it up.

Doruk Cikla - 1 month ago

I agree with you and I so like chess alot. My first thought was 4 because I was thinking of the scholar's mate.

Owen Chen - 1 year, 3 months ago

Do u play chess really well??

Sai Ram - 5 years ago
Kyle Coughlin
Jun 28, 2015

An alternative to the fool's mate listed in Jingyang's solution is 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Ke7 3. Qe5#

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You half to also use the rules of chess so white starts first there for white must move 6 because black must move 5 there for the correct answer is 6

Keegan Allen - 5 years, 11 months ago

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Question asks for how many moves. One move includes the turns for both sides. (i.e. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 etc.). Each side's turn within a move is known as a ply. The minimum number of ply required for this game would be 5, but we're still only in move 3 when the game ends.

Angelo Curcio - 5 years, 10 months ago

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I didn't know that about the "ply" thing. I was counting both black and white's "turns" as "moves". But for some reason the number "3" stuck in my head.

Clark Van Hekken - 5 years, 8 months ago
Kenny Chung
Feb 16, 2016

Pop quiz question?

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Sergio Lopez
Oct 25, 2015

The correct answer is 3 and just like the Scholars mate (fools mate), black has to walk into it. Queen or Bishop will be moving to h6 to checkmate, so any move that does not block the diagonal will allow for the mate.

White:Black 1. e4 : f6 2. Be2 : g5 ( this is the move that does not block the queens diagonal) 3. Bh6#
( this would end the game as the black cannot take the Bishop, block the check, or move the king.)

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I assume you meant Bh5#.

Steven Perkins - 5 years ago
Sai Ram
Jul 26, 2015

the checkmate is called fool's mate. it is supposing for black to win. f3, e4,g4,Qh4# checkmate but since the question wanted white to win, so it becomes: e4,f6,(any move which doesn't involves in the white queen's diagonal.) g4,Qh5# checkmate. This is the most dumb checkmate in the whole world to me.

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you copied

Owen Chen - 1 year, 3 months ago

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