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chess noob Quick Wins! is a 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 was an incredible 7-move checkmate by a subscriber (@Gimli) against the Dutch Defense (1. d4 f5). The Dutch Defense seems to break opening principles by moving the f-pawn immediately, but is actually an entirely solid opening defence. However, my subscriber played an interesting “anti-dutch” line: the Korchnoi Attack, Janzen-Korchnoi Gambit (2. h3 Nf6 3. g4), immediately attacking the f-pawn, and destabilising Black’s king-side with a flank-pawn attack.

Black plays inaccurately, chasing material, and this now exposes Black to the potential weakness of the light-square diagonal to their king inherent with the movement of their f-pawn.

White sacrifices their rook in a brilliant move (6. Rxh7), liquidating Black’s h-pawn and the last defender of the light squares. Black misses the checkmate risk, captures the rook, and so (7. Qg6#), an extraordinary early checkmate that seemingly comes from nowhere! GG!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/65837534941

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2023.01.11"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Gimli"]
[Black "napoli66"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Timezone "UTC"]
[ECO "A80"]
[ECOUrl "https://www.chess.com/openings/Dutch-Defense-Korchnoi-Attack-Janzen-Korchnoi-Gambit"]
[UTCDate "2023.01.11"]
[UTCTime "20:39:28"]
[WhiteElo "1165"]
[BlackElo "1224"]
[TimeControl "300"]
[Termination "Gimli won by checkmate"]
[StartTime "20:39:28"]
[EndDate "2023.01.11"]
[EndTime "20:40:00"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/game/live/67208552621"]

1. d4 f5 {Dutch Defense} 2. h3 {Korchnoi Attack} 2... Nf6 3. g4 {Janzen-Korchnoi
Gambit [-0.2]} 3... fxg4 $6 {[%c_effect
g4;square;g4;type;Inaccuracy;persistent;true][%c_arrow
d7d5;keyPressed;none;from;d7;opacity;0.8;to;d5;persistent;false][%c_highlight
d5;keyPressed;none;opacity;0.8;square;d5;persistent;false] An inaccuracy [+0.7]}
4. hxg4 Nxg4 {An inaccurate move [+1.4] which moves the knight off-side} 5. Qd3
Nf6 $4 {[%c_effect f6;square;f6;type;Blunder;persistent;true] A blunder [+9.4] as
an impending checkmate threat is coming} 6. Rxh7 $3 {[%c_effect
h7;square;h7;type;Brilliant;keyPressed;undefined;persistent;true] Brilliant
move $1} 6... Rxh7 $4 {[%c_effect
h7;square;h7;type;Blunder;keyPressed;undefined;persistent;true] This hangs
checkmate} 7. Qg6# {[%c_effect
e1;square;e1;type;Winner,e8;square;e8;type;CheckmateBlack] Amazing $1} 1-0