How do you react to early queen moves?

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pantheid

Because of my low rating, I constantly see people play for legal's mate from the start. At this point, I have grown sick and tired of it. How about you guys? Do you treat it as free wins, or good practice even?

mrguy888

It is far from a free win. It is bad but not bad enough to give you a clearly better position.

Dark--Horse

???

There are no queen moves in Legall's Mate...

JG27Pyth

This is legal's mate -- the white moves that lead to legal's mate are essentially sound italian game moves until the queen sac, so I'm not really sure what you are complaining about:

 

pantheid

Whoops. Meant scholars mate.

typelogin

Damn that is cool! I've heard of Scholar's / Fool's / The 4-move checkmate. This is first I've heard of Legal's mate.