The most basic and fundamental mate EVER! The Scholar's Mate!

Hi all! This is @IAMDAGOAT123456789 and today I will be typing about the famous(or infamous) Scholars mate! This is a very basic and possibly the MOST well known checkmate in chess and it is the one that you always try out in chess when you're a beginner.....I know I did.

Overview

• The scholars mate involves developing your pieces early
• has 3 pieces in the center or close

So lets get started!

The first move to play Scholar's Mate (always played from white) is 1.e4.....if you ask about 30 people, depending on your rating, definitely majority will usually play this opening.....and not without bad reason as it is a very strong move quickly taking control of center squares.....and the most common reply from black is 1.e5 doing the same thing as white...controlling the center...here is an image of the first moves.

Usually after this White play 2.Nf3 attacking the pawn and developing a minor piece. In this case though, for white to attempt scholars mate, they will play 2.Bc4. This isn't a rare move but its not as common as 2.Nf3 either but serves the same purpose for developing a minor piece. here is the move...

And after for the Scholar's mate to work, if black doesn't know this, theres a good chance they will play 2.Nc6 a very developing move....This surprisingly isn't a book move according to computer....but anyways after this move, you play what might seem like a really cringe move, Qh5. This probably seems like a really inaccurate move as people don't normally bring their queen out early unless you try Wayward queen attack or something...but nonetheless it IS threatening mate in 1 move...

In my opinion and maybe yours too, this is a really cringe position but like I said before, nonetheless, threatening mate in 1 or M1. There are obviously MANY ways to defend this such as 3.g6 or 3.Qe7 which are 2 decent options. But if black plays an innocent move like 3.Nf6, they're done for.....and while it may seem like they're attacking the queen and forcing them to retreat, they forgot to defend their f7 pawn known as a weak square....and after white can simply win by playing Qxf7# or queen to f7 checkmate...this is a really bitter loss for black as the lost in only 4 moves....here is a diagram for a all the moves....

There are of course many variations to this mate just like in any other mate such as switching the order, putting the piece in a different are but still attacking the same square, etc. But this is, by far, the most common sequence of moves for doing Scholar's mate.

Now you might be questioning why I made a blog on such a simple mate but the truth is I thought that if Im making a known positions series blog then I might as well include this mate despite the fact on how well known it is.

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@IAMDAGOAT123456789