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Scholar's mate

Why do people play this so much? I never fall for it but it must be a really successful strategy since everyone keeps playing it.
mostly its for the lolz. you don't lose much if they don't fall for it, but gain a lot if they do
What time control to they constantly try the scholars' mate? Because in Bullet I think it is a decent strategy against lower rated players since they might be so worried about time they just play random moves and not really look at the position. (And least we forget when a NM got Scholar'd in Bullet :): www.youtube.com/embed/BK5QdJ715zw

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