What is the name of this play?
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Up to the 2nd move, it's Philidor Counterattack (aiming for a 3... d5), but it goes downhill fast from there 
; grainpsilo is right.
; grainpsilo is right.
It is called Scholar's mate!!!
The following moves are not called scholar's mate because there is not any checkmate.
But, the following moves are its variation .
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 c6 3. Qh5 g6 4. Qxe5+ Qe7 5.Qxh8
sangyk wrote:
Scholar's mate!!!
But, the black move 3...Nf6 is a mistake.
Instead of 3...Nf6, the black g pawn moves to g6
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 c6 3. Qh5 g6 4. Qxe5+
thanks, but if white ends up on Qxe5 it's not checkmate it only gets the rook on H8, on this play 4. Qxf7# is a chackmate!!!