Fool's mate

As fools mate in chess is called jokingly the shortest possible game that leads to Matt. This is achieved by the following features, for example:

There are eight moves that lead to this Matt: White f - pawn and Black e - pawn can drag one or two fields, and f and g - pawn can change the turn order.

This is the fastest Matt Black Matt posits, although White has the advantage of the first move. The reason is that the loser has to perform in this Matt two bad moves. Will White put so weak, he must make a superfluous train. Because White is involved in mind to allow the opponent the quickest possible Matt, this corresponds to fool Matt a helpmate.

Swell

• David Hooper, Kenneth Whyld: The Oxford companion to chess, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition 1996, p 143