How to Win a Game of Chess in Less Than 5 Moves

This will teach you know, with a bit of luck, to end a game of chess almost as soon as it has begun.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Chess board
• Friend
• Luck

1. 

   This strategy is best known as "The Scholars Mate". Start by moving your Pawn at E2 to E4.

2. 

   Next, move your Queen from D1 to H5. For competition sake, I'll assume that the opponent has moved his Pawn at E7 to E5.

3. 

   Now move your Kings Bishop from F1 to C4. We'll assume the opponent has moved his Kings Knight from G8 to F6 in order to take your Queen.

4. 

   Now move your Queen from H5 to F7, taking your opponents Pawn, and checkmating his King. Congratulations, you've just schooled someone in the game of chess.

Tips & Warnings

• This strategy is amazing on alot of levels. Basically, all that matters is that you can get your Queen to H5 and your Bishop to C4. If you can do that, in most circumstances, against a moderate opponent (on a casual level), you've already won.
• Something that makes this strategy so great is adaptability.
• Practice moving your Bishop to C4 before you move your Queen to H5 sometimes, to see what works best for you.
• However, in order to adapt any strategy, practice is important. I highly suggest http://www.mdgx.com/chess.htm for practicing.
• A skilled opponent will see this coming.
• Be wary if you're up against someone with a little know how, as this is a risky strategy, leaving your King in the open, and putting your Queen into play so early.
• If his Pawns at E7 or G7 go to E6 or G6 respectively, this strategy will not work. Move on.
• Also, if you moved your Bishop to C4 first, and his Kings Knight moves to F6 early, hold back your Queen for a move. Try to coax his Knight into taking the Pawn that you moved to E4. It looks unprotected, and so many will go for this.

[whiskeytango]

on 2/27/2008 well, thats why I said its a risk, and that a skilled opponent will see it coming.

[TheUrinator]

on 2/27/2008 this was meant for your other chess article.

[TheUrinator]

on 2/27/2008 Against an extreme novice or everyday person this may help you out. However, not taking the center as the white player is a bad idea. A variation of this would be to move pawn to e4 to start off with and then guard with the rook. After doing this move pawn to g3 and move queen bishop to g2 then move knight to further bolster your position in the center. The final move is to castle on the right side. this will make it extremely difficult to get to the king and will guard a large area of the board as well as allowing moves in between these to bolster the center.