blind swine mate

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What does blind swine mate mean?

A checkmate pattern in which the king is confined to two squares at an edge of the board and then mated by two doubled rooks.

Where does blind swine mate come from?

Coined by Dawid Janowski who referred to doubled rooks on the 7th rank as "swine".

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