Easy but pretty 3-move checkmate

Here is an easy but pretty 3-move checkmate for white.

Cute.

A good puzzle.

The first move was a bit of a trick (not used to starting puzzles in check, especially puzzles where I'm delivering checkmate). ;)

easy but pretty and pretty easy

I like how the first move of the puzzle is literally the only legal move available. If this is from a game, you can imagine black quickly going from "A ha! I'm going to mate him!" to head-shaking dispair.

That's what happened, and I planned it.  This was just the last bit of it but I haven't had time to decide whether, in the earlier part, black made substantive mistakes , i.e. whether black should have won.

I played black in this game.  I did see the revealed check, but didn't see the rook sac until the check was actually played.  Nice tactic.

If you want to postmortem this (and/or run it through computer analysis), I'd appreciate it if you let me know what you find.

(At first glance, instead of Qa1+, Be2+ king move Bxf3 looks winning.)

really cute!!

Merry Christmas

yes, it is winning because after ...Be2+, Kd2 loses to ...Bxf3; Ke1 Qe3#. or, Kc2 loses to ...Bxf3; Kb1 Qb2#.  or, Ke1 loses to ...Bxf3, and a loss of the Queen if White does not just have the good sense to resign or make a show at intervention with Rg4 followed by Qe3#.  I overlooked Bxf3 as an early move, unsurprising for me in a blitz game, so I had the line ending with you up a knight and me with passed central pawns if there were no mistakes, except of course, that "analysis" (more gut than analysis in blitz) was a mistake.  :)

Unfortunately I have no chess program with which to postmortem as I lost my installation discs and this is a new (still crappy) computer.

Very nice, I like how the whole first move check block is discovered check.