6 Move Checkmate for White: More Dangerous than Scholar's Mate?

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ArbiterRegnant

An opening Chess players may employ is called the "Double Danish Gambit". The premise is rather simple, you sacrifice 2 pawns in exchange for a highly active and dangerous pair of Bishops.

However, could there be a way to checkmate in six moves while being more easily hidden than a similar opening: Scholar's Mate? This is the variation I propose: A risky yet rewarding attack.

What just happened? The answer is simple, the opponent foolishly sees the valuable Rook as a more worthy target than the Bishop and captures it. Unfortunately, this move does not protect against the Queen capturing the King's Bishop's Pawn, which results in a checkmate. The King cannot move without being captured nor can it capture its attacker without being itself captured.
While this is a powerful opening trap indeed, there is one move that annihilates the opening.

Now that the main trap has been dealt with,  there is no way in which White can employ a backup plan? That assumption would be incorrect.

White has once again won after Black has been too greedy and tried to win an extra Rook.

I am open to feedback on how likely the opponent is to fall for this trap as well as coming up with an apt name for it. I am currently thinking of "Viking Gambit" after the Vikings, of which the Danes whom the Danish Gambit is named were part of.

ThrillerFan
ArbiterRegnant wrote:

An opening Chess players may employ is called the "Double Danish Gambit". The premise is rather simple, you sacrifice 2 pawns in exchange for a highly active and dangerous pair of Bishops.

 

However, could there be a way to checkmate in six moves while being more easily hidden than a similar opening: Scholar's Mate? This is the variation I propose: A risky yet rewarding attack.

 

What just happened? The answer is simple, the opponent foolishly sees the valuable Rook as a more worthy target than the Bishop and captures it. Unfortunately, this move does not protect against the Queen capturing the King's Bishop's Pawn, which results in a checkmate. The King cannot move without being captured nor can it capture its attacker without being itself captured.
While this is a powerful opening trap indeed, there is one move that annihilates the opening.

 

Now that the main trap has been dealt with,  there is no way in which White can employ a backup plan? That assumption would be incorrect.

 

White has once again won after Black has been too greedy and tried to win an extra Rook.

I am open to feedback on how likely the opponent is to fall for this trap as well as coming up with an apt name for it. I am currently thinking of "Viking Gambit" after the Vikings, of which the Danes whom the Danish Gambit is named were part of.

 

Easy, easy, EASY equality!

 

5...d5! 6.Bxd5 Nf6! 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.Qxd8 Bb4+ 9.Qd2 Bxd2+ 10.Nxd2

 

Dead equal.  White has nothing!

 

And if 5.Qf3, what reject would take the Rook?  Come'on, Man!  A possum is smarter than that!

 

The Danish Gambit proper, and your 5.Qf3 variant, are both totally useless!

 

I will play you 100 games as Black for $100 a game!  Oh, and my 5th move in EVERY game will be 5...bxc1=Q CHECK!

 

Oh, and then I will take the other Bishop!

ArbiterRegnant
ThrillerFan wrote:
ArbiterRegnant wrote:

An opening Chess players may employ is called the "Double Danish Gambit". The premise is rather simple, you sacrifice 2 pawns in exchange for a highly active and dangerous pair of Bishops.

 

However, could there be a way to checkmate in six moves while being more easily hidden than a similar opening: Scholar's Mate? This is the variation I propose: A risky yet rewarding attack.

 

What just happened? The answer is simple, the opponent foolishly sees the valuable Rook as a more worthy target than the Bishop and captures it. Unfortunately, this move does not protect against the Queen capturing the King's Bishop's Pawn, which results in a checkmate. The King cannot move without being captured nor can it capture its attacker without being itself captured.
While this is a powerful opening trap indeed, there is one move that annihilates the opening.

 

Now that the main trap has been dealt with,  there is no way in which White can employ a backup plan? That assumption would be incorrect.

 

White has once again won after Black has been too greedy and tried to win an extra Rook.

I am open to feedback on how likely the opponent is to fall for this trap as well as coming up with an apt name for it. I am currently thinking of "Viking Gambit" after the Vikings, of which the Danes whom the Danish Gambit is named were part of.

 

Easy, easy, EASY equality!

 

5...d5! 6.Bxd5 Nf6! 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.Qxd8 Bb4+ 9.Qd2 Bxd2+ 10.Nxd2

 

Dead equal.  White has nothing!

 

And if 5.Qf3, what reject would take the Rook?  Come'on, Man!  A possum is smarter than that!

 

The Danish Gambit proper, and your 5.Qf3 variant, are both totally useless!

 

I will play you 100 games as Black for $100 a game!  Oh, and my 5th move in EVERY game will be 5...bxc1=Q CHECK!

Who would take the Rook? I'd ask something similar to everyone who attacks the Queen with the Knight in the Scholar's Mate trap. If you're unaware, you would only see a golden opportunity that ends in an immediate loss. Come to think of it... this is just a riskier Scholar's Mate trap.
And as for playing 100 games against you for $100 per game... no. If you came here just to stroke your ego, you should kindly leave this thread.

ThrillerFan

It ain't stroking ego.  It is calling out sheer idiocy!

darkunorthodox88

white sacked two pawns and the best you recommend is equality?

you make it sound like white is -0.8. 0.00 for critical play agaisnt a super trappy line sounds like praise, not criticism to me.

SamuelAjedrez95

You can't intentionally make blunders for the opponent and call it a good opening...

This could work against -200s but then you are not challenging yourself and are basically just playing party tricks against amateurs.