Fool's Mate - Fast Mates - Chess for Children - Steve Colding

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Fool's Mate - Quick Mates - Part 3

Quick Checkmates -Part 3

Fool’s Mate checkmates happen in this, video #3, of the series. These check mates are some of the fastest checkmates in chess.

Fast checkmates happen in this, video #3 of the series. Mr. C talks about the really fast mates h5/e8 and h4/e1 diagonal. In a fun and entertaining style Master Steve takes you through the checkmates which you should learn to become a dangerous and better player.

A note from Mr. C:

Hello, Chess for Children kids! We want to thank you for visiting our quick checkmates page. We really appreciate you and our little minions are constantly at work trying to bring you the very chess lessons on the web today.

Checkmate is a wonderful thing and what can make it more wonderful is to checkmate our opponent really quickly.

Why is a quick checkmate so satisfying? Maybe it iss because we demonstrate our superiority ina decisive way. It could be that we could go grab a pizza or play with a friend. I think that quick checkmates are just fun to play. Whatever the reason here are some rapid fire checkmates to help you in your games. Enjoy!

The checkmate that Mr. C covers are the variations of Fool’s mate .

Other mates in under 10 moves videos

Here is our first checkmate in Under 10 moves – video
This is where you go to see our 2nd checkmate in Under 10 moves – video
Click here to visit our 4th video on checkmate video 4
Checkmate in Under 10 moves –video 5

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