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The UK music press was generally very positive about Fool's Mate.Melody Maker saw it as "one of THE albums of the year". [citation needed]Paul Stump, in his History of Progressive Rock, called Fool's Mate "a revamped corpus of pre-Van der Graaf Generator and pre-university songs of plumptious psychedelic pop hedging its bets between Syd Barrett and Al Stewart."
Fool's mate was named and described in The Royal Game of Chess-Play, a 1656 text by Francis Beale that adapted the work of the early chess writer Gioachino Greco. [2]Prior to the mid-19th century, there was not a prevailing convention as to whether White or Black moved first; according to Beale, the matter was to be decided in some prior contest or decision of the players' choice. [3]
The fool's mate is the quickest possible checkmate in the game of chess. Fool's mate may also refer to: Fool's Mate, by Peter Hammill;
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Fool's Mate (French: Le Coup du berger) is a 1956 short film directed by Jacques Rivette. It stars Virginie Vitry as a wife cheating on her husband (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze). When her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy) buys her a mink coat, the adulterous pair hatch a plan to avoid her husband's questioning the coat's origins.
Fool's Mate (German: Zugzwang) is a 1989 West German drama film by the director Mathieu Carrière. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival . [ 1 ]
The fewest moves required to deliver checkmate in chess is two, in what is known as the fool's mate (1.g4 e5 2.f3?? Qh4# and variants thereof). This happens in amateur play.
One such fool's mate was between Mayfield vs Trinks in 1959 and lasted only three moves: 1.e4 g5 2.Nc3 f5 3.Qh5#. Mike Fox and Richard James in The Even More Complete Chess Addict (Faber and Faber, 1993) make mention (page 177) of a game with the same moves played in the 1959 US Open, but they claim the players were called Masefield and Trinka.