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UK
/tʃˈɛkmeɪt/
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[ US /ˈtʃɛkˌmeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɛkˌmeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- complete victory
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
VERB
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place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves
How To Use checkmate In A Sentence
- With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible.
- A move in chess that directly attacks an opponent's king but does not constitute a checkmate.
- Each of the moves had to be with a different piece and a player had to be able to escape check on the first move of their turn otherwise it was checkmate.
- As a consequence, it is theoretically possible to play a perfect game of chess - that is, both players could always work out the exact sequence of optimum moves, right through to checkmate.
- Perhaps this checkmate will, over time, deprive the opposition of its support and erode the appeal of democracy.
- As soon as she lifted her fingers from the piece she saw: Seigl would checkmate her king in the next move. THE TATTOOED GIRL
- Surprisingly enough I even managed to checkmate the computer, though I think I had some help from my companion.
- After that, Leon would be able to put him into a checkmate.
- He was fresh out of ideas, and his next move could be checkmate.
- To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate.
