How To Win a Chess Game Fast

Winning Chess in a Few Moves

When you know how to win a chess game fast, you’ll be able to impress friends and family with your seeming skills as a chessmaster. Learning to win Chess quickly is a little bit like learning a card trick, since it will impress the crowd, but those in the know will understand that your opponent was an inexperienced “mark”.

Veteran players or knowledgeable players will know how to counter your moves, but it will look like you’re some kind of grandmaster, though you’ve really only learn 4 or 5 moves.

With that in mind, here are a couple of methods for winning chess rapidly.

Move Your King’s Pawn

Your king’s pawn is the pawn directly in front of your king piece (E2 for White, D7 for Black). Move this pawn up either one or two squares, though it’s probably best defensively to move forward only one space for defensive purposes, in case this brilliant ploy doesn’t work immediately. Moving this pawn forward will allow your Queen and the King’s Bishop to move forward.

Move Queen Diagonally Two Spaces

Once your opponent has moved, move your Queen chess piece two spaces diagonally. It should sit immediately to the right of the pawn you just moved (f3).

Move King’s Bishop Four Space

Next, after your opponent moves again, you should move your King’s Bishop (f1 for white, c8 for black) four spaces diagonally, so that it resides at c4 (or f5 for black). This is a key placement for the trap you are about to spring, because it will trap the opponent’s king with nowhere to go. Make certain your opponent doesn’t have a piece they can move to capture your Bishop.

Capture the Bishop’s Pawn With Queen

Finally, move your Queen forward to capture the King’s Bishop’s Pawn (f7 against white, c2 against black). Your queen should come to rest one space diagonally from your opponent’s king, in the same diagonal white column that your King’s Bishop is also occupying. Neither your king’s knight nor bishop on that side of the board or, in fact, any piece (besides the king) should be able to capture your Queen.

This means that your opponent’s king should have only one of two moves left to it, assuming it has not moved yet. One, the king can move forward one space. If this happens, your Queen captures the King on the next move. Two, the King moves diagonally one space to capture your Queen.

If this happens, then your supporting Bishop comes into play. Your Bishop piece will be able to move forward space diagonally (forward and to the right) to capture your opponent’s king. So if the King doesn’t move, he loses; if the King moves forward, he loses; if he captures your Queen, he loses. Checkmate.

Fool’s Mate Checkmate

When a white player makes a foolish move or two, black can win in two moves. Once again, no experienced player would make this move, so you will only be able to use this against novice chess players.

If White Moves King’s Bishop Pawn Two Spaces

When your opponent moves his pawn in front of his knight on the king’s side (King’s Knight’s Pawn) or the pawn in front of the bishop (King’s Bishop’s Pawn), try to set the Fool’s Mate situation up. Do this by moving your king’s pawn ahead one or two spaces.

Move Queen into Checkmate

Next, see if your opponent makes the second of the two moves mentioned earlier. It really doesn’t matter which order this is done in. In either case, his or her King will be exposed.

If the KK Pawn and KB Pawn are both moved out and you have cleared space for your Queen to move, you have your opponent.

Move the Queen ahead four spaces diagonally. This should put your Queen at H5, a position on the outside column of the board. In fact, she should be sitting directly next to your opponent’s two pawns that were moved out two spaces. This should put her directly in line with the White King, trapping it.

The king can only make one move: diagonal. Also, none of your opponent’s pieces can move to block your Queen, or to capture your Queen. All the opponent can do is to move their King one space towards your Queen diagonally, which does nothing. The White King is therefore in checkmate.

Once again, you have to hope your opponent makes two really bad moves in unison, so this happens rarer. But if they do, he or she will be freaked out when you win in only two moves.

Chess Moves to Win Quickly

The first time you pull off that set of moves against a newbie chess player, it will freak them out. Chess is supposed to be a game of patience with long, thought-out manuevers. So to defeat an opponent in four simple moves will probably crush their will. As mentioned before, an experienced player will recognize what you are attempting immediately and counter you. In fact, since your Queen is so exposed, you risk a debilitating loss of your Queen rather rapidly.

Still, it’s worth the risk to impress your friends. So there you go; that’s how to win a chess game fast.

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