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The Scholar's Mate of the Atomic variant

my pick would be 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 g6 3.Qh3 f5 4.exf5 followed by Qd7. Then of course there's the fools mate of atomic, 1.e4 d5 2.exd5?? Qxd2
The weird thing is that not a lot of players find this checkmate. I looked at 1. e4 Nc6 in the opening tree, and I'm surprised that White doesn't have a much higher win rate.
Fool's Mate is not a very good analogy to 1. e4 d5 2. exd5?? Qxd2#. In the Fool's Mate white intentionally tries to lose. In the Qxd2 mate black plays a natural move, although that hangs mate in 1.
It’s not a discovery nor an invention. What your point stateyourpoint?

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