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.
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  • 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.
  • Game’s over, but Obama’s too inexperienced a player to realize that checkmate is now unavoidable. The August Rasmussen Public Trust Numbers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
  • But who will be checkmated in the final? showdown between these two men? Breaking Bad Finale: Who Will Survive the "Face Off"?
  • A final blow, White now threatens checkmate in one move and Black is lost by force.
  • This is a fun book that will help many players, either as a basic starting point in the study of checkmate tactics or as a refresher.
  • A Virginia tobacco-factory checkmates that innocent tipple with "negrohead" and "navy twist. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
  • Leaning forward to his opponent he moves all pieces from both sides around the board until he has finally checkmated his way to victory.
  • But that day things went in our favour and Humpy checkmated her opponent.
  • You and I have these little feuds, neither of us gains any ground at all, just little strokes of the egos as we think to ourselves we "checkmated" the other. Metro Times
  • The answer to the puzzle hinges on a chess problem Oliver Garland counts on his son to solve, wherein black can checkmate white in two moves or less.
  • Ten-year-old Jackie Peng called checkmate on the nation, as she brought home the national chess crown for her age group in Quebec City Sunday. Jackie Peng Wins Age Group
  • Tomorrow, it's a high stakes game of chess where a checkmate means you might be checked out of Hollywood.
  • The author next introduces the concept of checkmate, which is, after all, what one seeks to achieve in the game.
  • A move in chess that directly attacks an opponent's king but does not constitute a checkmate.
  • Their refusal means that Congress members are checkmated from mentioning such matters in public.
  • Jason toys with his guilt, rationalizes it, checkmates it before it can trap him.
  • This could be a checkmate if it weren't for Floyd's knight in the way.
  • Though the government is mapping out sophisticated strategies to checkmate their unauthorized intruders.
  • China has also in a sense checkmated America and its Asian allies, South Korea and Japan, by providing, through its proxy, Pakistan, nuclear weapons technology to North Korea. Jamyang Norbu: Who Created Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal?
  • Can I now just force checkmate with a sequence of checks?
  • After he checkmated her the second time, she sighed and sat back after knocking her king over.
  • Player ‘B’ then shows that he can checkmate with the bishop against an unskilled player if the pawn is promoted to an opposite color bishop.
  • Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves
  • The goal of the game is to place the opposing king into checkmate, that is, a position in which the king is under attack but cannot escape. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • I chose the equal of two evils and moved my king into inevitable checkmate.
  • Will sentencing day mean checkmate for Russia's so called chessboard killer? CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007
  • And it was up to Tony to try to make sure it would be the one that ended in checkmate. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead". Symbolisms behind the Egyptian Sinat game
  • As soon as she lifted her fingers from the piece she saw: Seigl would checkmate her king in the next move. THE TATTOOED GIRL
  • My Dad can always checkmate me within twenty moves.
  • It's time to checkmate this illiterate bottom-feeder and show him that if you've read any of the refractory slop that he has concocted, you'll unmistakably recall his description of his plan to bring about a wonderland of larrikinism. White Mob Disrupts Black Meeting
  • I had one middle-aged student who stubbornly refused to castle, saying that his King would be trapped in the corner and checkmated.
  • This seemed logical enough since it allowed easy development and also allowed me to aim for the four-move checkmate!
  • The problem is that Team Obama and Team Reid are so hung up on playing 11-D chess and putting the Rs in checkmate via a filibuster proof majority that they’ve simply perpetuated the meme that it takes 60 votes to get something done in the Senate. Matthew Yglesias » What if Bernanke Isn’t Reconfirmed
  • This movement signals a departure from totalitarian politics in the country that have smothered civil life, made the state a facade and held society in checkmate with constant threats of civil war and external enemies.
  • As the pawns fall, the bigger pieces must be wondering whether the time has not come for a daring attempt to checkmate the king before their turn comes to be knocked off the board.
  • The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent's king.
  • Clearly, however, the dictator and his cronies are worried since this is a classic delaying gambit akin to racing chess pieces around the board in a desperate attempt to stave off impending checkmate.
  • While unions have been checkmated on card check, they're ahead in another game — labor board appointment power — with all the cards they need. One Road Is Blocked? Try Another
  • The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent's king.
  • Cain retained his confident smile, like chess master watching his opponent move closer and closer to their own checkmate.
  • You will have the right to be upset if the REAL important part of the ending, the moral checkmate, is gone. New Watchmen Trailer Will Premiere Online on Thursday Night | /Film
  • The integrity-challenged King has been a courtroom star, fending off lawsuits and criminal indictments like a chess master who checkmates or at least stalemates all comers.
  • It could take the scientist years to learn that a pawn on the eighth row can become a queen, rook, bishop, or knight, or exactly what checkmates and stalemates are.
  • I really don't believe he will checkmate people.
  • For example, it is not possible to force a checkmate with a king and two knights against a lone king.
  • Resignation occurs in the vast majority of tournament games, while actual checkmates are quite rare.
  • ‘It looks like checkmate to me,’ Dravis commented.
  • But taking the knight left my rook a wide open path to move across the board and checkmate your king.
  • She could almost hear some revengeful opponent state triumphantly ‘Checkmate,’ as the neat graph of her life crumbled.
  • If the player cannot resort to either of these tactics to save his king he is "checkmated" and loses the game. Entertainments for Home, Church and School
  • The holographic representation of his opponent looked smug as it calmly checkmated his king again.
  • Throwing in the proverbial towel is, however, not an option according to the rules of this particular contest, which state that the game can only end with checkmate or stalemate.
  • The integrity-challenged King has been a courtroom star, fending off lawsuits and criminal indictments like a chess master who checkmates or at least stalemates all comers.
  • The times your own pieces have been blocked by the knights and bishops you seem bent on protecting, leaving me free to checkmate you, are uncountable.
  • If you know what you're doing, and keep at it long enough, you'll eventually achieve a checkmate.
  • So I don't hate you now, and I don't even want to checkmate you now.
  • When fight, we handle this kind of problem to adopt the measure of each checkmate normally.
  • Mamie refused to be checkmated and turned to Harry for advice. American Resorts: Newport | Edwardian Promenade
  • Good Chess players rarely play a game to checkmate: they resign when it becomes clear they cannot win in other words, when the game has ceased to be dramatic.
  • His mind seemed to function like a computer: it anticipated each move of his opponent and was prepared to checkmate the manoeuvre.
  • To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate.
  • To win, a player must use his pieces to create a situation where the opponent's King is unable to avoid capture (a condition known as checkmate). Fred's Head from APH
  • Karl Kraus, Vienna's famous satirist, once said in his unique way: ‘Diplomacy is a game of chess wherein the peoples are checkmated.’
  • Leaning forward to his opponent he moves all pieces from both sides around the board until he has finally checkmated his way to victory.
  • Baker's whole game plan seems to be based on checkmate.
  • The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead.” 10 Weird Science Facts You Didn’t Know
  • When a King is checkmated, the game is over, and the player initiating the checkmate is the winner. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Each believes it can find new allies that will help it checkmate or counterattack.
  • I couldn't take it with the king or I would be moving into checkmate.
  • Black is seated across from you and makes one move, and you are checkmated.
  • And unlike mainstream pugilism, fighters can win by not only knocking out their opponent, but also by catching them in checkmate.
  • Yet in spite of the significance of these developments we should remember the main objective in chess - checkmate ends the game.
  • A dream of every chess player is to win the game with a quick checkmate.
  • A final blow, White now threatens checkmate in one move and Black is lost by force.
  • And to think that no one checkmated these people or try to stop this act was beyond me. The Decay in Our Sports...
  • Through this multivalent signs, the scene forever oscillates between narration of butchery and love; it ‘checkmates’ any interpretation.
  • Just then, I noticed something on the board, moved my rook and declared, ‘Checkmate!’
  • But, like English-speakers using the word checkmate, French-speakers typically hear no Persian or Arabic meanings in their phrase. The English Is Coming!
  • And it was up to Tony to try to make sure it would be the one that ended in checkmate. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • I got his queen, then he got mine, so I got a pawn to his side and got him in checkmate.
  • But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties, of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player, bankrupts every self-seeker, and apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body, — that man liberates me; I forget the clock. Representative Men
  • But neither player could deliver checkmate, so a draw was agreed on move 49.
  • The King is very close to the corner of the board and Black threatens checkmate in two!
  • A move in chess that directly attacks an opponent's king but does not constitute a checkmate.
  • Throwing in the proverbial towel is, however, not an option according to the rules of this particular contest, which state that the game can only end with checkmate or stalemate.
  • I can just keep on checking you, forcing you to move where I want you to before I bring down my other pieces and checkmate.
  • his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful
  • I was checkmated on move 27; Mr. Kasparov had moved on to examine the position on the board to my left before I'd even realized that the game was over.
  • When fight, we handle this kind of problem to adopt the measure of each checkmate normally.
  • Once Matt checkmated him, and twice Rick stalemated him.
  • And not surprisingly, the vice president checkmated that strategy by selecting a running mate who is not afraid to speak for religious values in the public square.
  • Can I now just force checkmate with a sequence of checks?
  • How in the world do we ever expect to win this war, and, if the war is not winnable in the traditional sense, how do we contain or checkmate this enemy?
  • Ray knew as well as Leon did that there wasn't a single move that Chris could make that wouldn't give Leon an opportunity to checkmate him.
  • They've got you checkmated on the military option.

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