checkmate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
checkmate
v.
defeat one's opponent by putting his king in an inescapable position (Chess); defeat
n.
act of putting an opponent's king in an inescapable position (Chess); downfall, defeat
Checkmate
Checkmate (
Persian: كيش و مات ، kish-o-mat Means King is Defeated) (often shortened to
mate) is a game position in
chess (and in other
board games of the
chaturanga a word with persian origin: چترنگ Chatrang 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.
Checkmate (comics)
checkmate
Noun
1. complete victory
(hypernym) victory, triumph
2. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
(synonym) mate
(hypernym) chess move
(derivation) mate
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) mate
(hypernym) beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
(derivation) mate
(classification) chess, chess game
checkmate
n.
šachmat
checkmate
Rzecz.
szach i mat
