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chess noob Quick Wins! is a new series of short videos, to demonstrate very quick wins! As a beginner, you become aware of the Scholar’s Mate and the Fool’s Mate, but neither of these show up in real games. However, there are tricky quick checkmates and wins that occur, even at the intermediate level of chess.

This game was sent in by one of my subscribers (@TFossS) – a very nice 11 move checkmate that capitalised on their opponent’s blindness to a checkmate threat.

On move 9, Black castled king-side – a strategically dubious move given that White had a semi-open h-file and had both a rook and queen looking at the pawn on h7. Although Stockfish called in only an inaccuracy [+1.18], this was only if Black recognised the risk and used their next two moves to counterattack.

Black, however, missed the risk and thus, lost by checkmate on move 11. GG!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/56066695517

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2022.09.04"]
[Round "-"]
[White "TFossS"]
[Black "Marius75012"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Timezone "UTC"]
[ECO "A40"]
[ECOUrl "https://www.chess.com/openings/Queens-Pawn-Opening-1...c6"]
[UTCDate "2022.09.04"]
[UTCTime "21:43:43"]
[WhiteElo "1009"]
[BlackElo "966"]
[TimeControl "600"]
[Termination "TFossS won by checkmate"]
[StartTime "21:43:43"]
[EndDate "2022.09.04"]
[EndTime "21:45:13"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/game/live/56066695517"]

1. d4 {Queen's Pawn Opening} 1... c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 Bf5 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3 Bxd3
6. Qxd3 Nf6 7. Nf3 Bd6 8. Bg3 Bxg3 9. hxg3 {Note the semi-open h-file} 9... O-O
{[%c_arrow
d3h7;keyPressed;none;from;d3;opacity;0.8;to;h7;persistent;false,h1h7;keyPressed;none;from;h1;opacity;0.8;to;h7;persistent;false][%c_highlight
h7;keyPressed;none;opacity;0.8;square;h7;persistent;false] Stockfish calls this an inaccuracy [+1.18] but tactically, castling into the side where the opponent has a semi-open file with an established checkmate threat is very risky} 10. g4
{[%c_arrow
g4g5;keyPressed;none;from;g4;opacity;0.8;to;g5;persistent;false,g5f6;keyPressed;none;from;g5;opacity;0.8;to;f6;persistent;false,d3h7;keyPressed;none;from;d3;opacity;0.8;to;h7;persistent;false,h1h7;keyPressed;none;from;h1;opacity;0.8;to;h7;persistent;false][%c_highlight
h7;keyPressed;none;opacity;0.8;square;h7;persistent;false] Aim to remove the defender of the h7 square} 10... Nxg4 {A blunder [+M1]} 11. Qxh7# {[%c_effect
e1;square;e1;type;Winner,g8;square;g8;type;CheckmateBlack]} 1-0