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Checkmated meaning
Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game. | Suffering a personal loss with no obvious chance to escape the loss.
Example sentences (7)
He even nursed the ambition to be replaced by his wife, Grace Mugabe, an ambition that was checkmated by the military which eventually booted him out of office in ignominious circumstances.
Hobbled by an ailing economy, Islamabad finds itself checkmated by the trio of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval.
The purveyors of Siamese twins of evil must be checkmated and government will continue to engage to end the menace,” he said.
They reassured themselves that Buhari was not really the one in charge of affairs in his first outing as a military Head of State and that his fame or notoriety for delegation of authority would mean that he could be checkmated.
If it is not possible to get out of check, the king is checkmated and the game is over (see the next section).
In The Saga of Earl Mágus, which was written in Iceland somewhere between 1300–1325, it is described how an emperor was checkmated by a bishop.
When a bare king faces a king and two knights, checkmate can occur only if the opponent commits a blunder by moving his king to a square where it may be checkmated on the next move.