What (who) is checkmate - definition
WINNING GAME POSITION IN CHESS
Forced mate; Check mate; Shah mat; Checkmates; Checkmating; Checkmated; Schachmatt; Échec et mat; Xeque mate; Walking Checkmate solution; Basic checkmate; Mate (chess); Two bishops checkmate; Stamma's mate; Ladder checkmate
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checkmate
In chess, checkmate is a situation in which you cannot stop your king being captured and so you lose the game.
= mate
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checkmate
v. a.
Beat (at chess), conquer, vanquish, put in check, put completely at fault, corner, entirely thwart.
Checkmate
·noun A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
III. Checkmate ·noun The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, - which ends the game.
IV. Checkmate ·vt To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
Wikipedia
Checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.
In chess, the king is never actually captured—the player loses as soon as the player's king is checkmated. In formal games, it is usually considered good etiquette to resign an inevitably lost game before being checkmated.
If a player is not in check but has no legal move, then it is stalemate, and the game immediately ends in a draw. A checkmating move is recorded in algebraic notation using the hash symbol "#", for example: 34.Qg3#.
Pronunciation examples for checkmate
1. Checkmate.
A Good Year (2006)
2. Checkmate.
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3. Michael, checkmate.
Prison to Professor in 5 Years _ Mikael Meir _ Talks at Google
4. It's checkmate.
What to Talk About _ Rob Baedeker & Chris Colin _ Talks at Google
5. RICH MOORE: Checkmate.
Wreck-It Ralph _ Rich Moore _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of checkmate
1. Unfortunately, he completely overlooked the checkmate.
2. Fritz also won the second game when Kramnik inexplicably blundered into an immediate checkmate.
3. Later that month, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told Brownfield about Operation Check, as in checkmate.
4. But a continued stalemate can, as Sir Winston Churchill has said, be preferable to a checkmate.
5. CheckMate is a pheromone spray developed specifically to keep the moth from mating without killing it.