To Achieve Checkmate in Two Moves

A very common question that we receive as chess player is what is the easiest strategy to win a game of chess? Now, everybody's idea of the game of chess, that's it, is a very long, strategic, thought out game, but surprisingly enough there's a way to win a game of chess in just two moves. Now, when we’re studying the two move checkmate or generally known as the fools mate, it takes a sequence of bad moves through the opponent to fall into this trap of just two moves.

Now interestingly enough the two move checkmate is going to occur on the black side checkmating white in two moves. So white will probably start and play a move, F-4. As we can notice in this position by white moving their pawn to F-4 they've showed their king's diagonal exposing the king and making a weakness. Black can easily open up and make space because of their queen and bishop which is black's first move. White makes their second move further opening up the king's diagonal and providing black to make their second move which would be to bring the queen along the diagonal to H-4 and checking the king.

Now in chess when we're in order we look for several methods for getting outside of check. It's either to move the king, to avoid the check or to capture the checking piece. In this position the king has no safe squares to move. You don't see any pieces that will interpose or block the queen from checking the king and there are actually no pieces that will capture the checking piece or capture the queen.

What exactly just happened is black has checkmated white in two moves and just to once more provide you with, white opens up making the move to F-4 opening up the king's diagonal. Black plays the pawn up opening up the queen to make a direct threat on white's king. White plays G-4 and black responds by bringing the queen out and making a direct threat to white's king and leaving white with no option to run, block or capture and ending the game in just two moves.

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