David Johnston wrote:

The minimum number of moves in which someone can be defeated is 4.  This 
is known as a "fool's mate". Any 6 move checkmate is going to be just a 
slight variation on the fool's mate.  It doesn't indicate that he rules. 
  It indicates that she hasn't more than vaguest concept what she's doing.

The six-move version is referred to as 'Scholar's Mate'.  It doesn't
require the loser to screw up nearly as badly as Fool's Mate does.  :)



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  -Sean Connor  (sec@zre.ca)
                (sec@accesscomm.ca)

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