1) Ballet by Arthur Bliss 2) Chess terminology 3) Comic by Greg Rucka 4) Complete victory 5) DC Comics title 6) End of a chess game 7) Endgame end 8) Finale for Fischer 9) French word used in English 10) Game-ending announcement 11) Game-ending declaration 12) Inescapable attack in chess 13) Last word in a cerebral game
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1) Coup de grace 2) Defeat 3) Lastmove
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- complete victory
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
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Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is a game position in chess (and in other board games of the chaturanga family) in which a player`s king is in check (threatened with capture) and there is no way to remove the threat. Checkmating the opponent wins the game. In chess the king is never actually captured – the game ends as soon as the king is c....
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[ballet] Checkmate is a one act ballet created by the choreographer Ninette de Valois and composer Arthur Bliss. The idea for the ballet was proposed by Bliss, and subsequently produced by de Valois for the Vic-Wells Ballet. It was first performed on 15 June 1937 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Checkmate is widely regarded as ...
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• (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. • (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game. • (v. t.) 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 esc...
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(from the article `chess`) ...could capture the king if the king is not shielded or moved—the king is said to be in check. The game is won when one king is in check and cannot ...
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Check'mate noun [ French échec et mat, from Persian
shāh māt ceckmate, lit., the king is dead, from Arabic māta he died, is dead. The king, when made prisoner, or checkmated, is assumed to be dead, and the game is finished. See
Chess .]
1. The position in the g...
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Check'mate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Checkmated ;
present participle & verbal noun Checkmating .]
1. (Chess) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an advers...
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n] - complete victory 2. [n] - a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent`s king 3. [v] - place an opponent`s king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
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mate noun a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent`s king
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