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Checkmate meaning
Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game. | Said when one has placed a person in a losing situation with no escape.
Example sentences (20)
A king and a bishop is not sufficient material to checkmate an opposing lone king, but two bishops and a king checkmate an opposing lone king easily.
In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by voluntary resignation by the opponent, which typically occurs when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable.
The game ends after a checkmate or if a dictator fails to checkmate the enemy president within 15 moves.
The objective is to ' checkmate ' The word "Checkmate" is derived from the Arabic Shah mat (“the king is dead”) citation the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture.
This is commonly seen in checkmate problems where a 3 move checkmate problem would mean a move sequence of black-white-black.
With a king and bishop versus a king and bishop, a checkmate is not possible if the bishops are on the same color of squares but checkmate is possible if they are on opposite colors.
But crying uncle when suddenly in checkmate doesn’t square things for the NCAA when it comes to historic mistreatment of athletes.
In the late 1980s, as the Cold War stubbornly refuses to thaw, a new battle heats up, this time for the soul of the intelligence agency Checkmate.
Nigeria’s socioeconomic woes were compounded by the failure of the Ahmad Lawan-led 9th national assembly to checkmate the executive excesses.
The 75-year-old actor's daughter Katherine is wed to "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris, 43, and he revealed that his son-in-law is "very smart" when it comes to playing the classic board game where players strive to checkmate their opponent.
A sudden Queen, Rook, and pawn attack from Joshi ensnared Shariff’s King with a looming checkmate.
He said; Occupy Imo protest may be an opportunity to checkmate the excessive of governor Hope Uzodinma.
The highly-touted Russian Sukhoi Su-75 "Checkmate" could still be years from making its first flight, but it seems that Moscow continues to seek foreign buyers for its bargain basement "fifth-generation" fighter.
This is simply because the society they inhabit is guided by long-standing values which forbid and condemn such acts, and moreover, there is even a system in place to checkmate such acts, such that anyone found wanting would be severely dealt with.
Though India is currently developing its own advanced combat aircraft via its Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) program, Russia has set its sights on finding an international partner for the Checkmate.
According to him: “The amendment, which is without bias, will checkmate monopolistic and anti/competitive behaviour and by extension enhance the local creative industry.
Another gem was an unbelievably elegant checkmate Carlsen accomplished while goofing around with co-host grandmaster Jan Gustafsson.
Elegushi stated that it was agreed that the Federal Government should shut down borders, especially land borders to checkmate the influx of foreigners into Lagos in order to prevent the spread of Coronavirus.
Hajj: Ilorin airport maps out strategy to checkmate.
He frowned at the way population was outweighing economic growth in Nigeria and advocated for action that would significantly checkmate population explosion.