Usually means: Quickest possible checkmate in chess.
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  1. fool's mate, fool's mate: Collins English Dictionary
  2. fool's mate: Wiktionary
  3. Fool's Mate, Fool's Mate (album), Fool's mate, Fools mate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. fool's mate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fool's mate: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Fool's mate: Chess Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fool's mate)

noun:  (chess) The quickest possible checkmate in the game of chess.


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