checkmate
/ˈt͡ʃɛkmeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
noun
The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the checkmate position was in accordance with Article 3 and Articles 4.2 – 4.7."
- "My opponent checkmated me in four moves!"
- "The game is won by the player who has checkmated his/her opponent’s king."
- "Where is it? What does SCP-3125 look like? Its motivation, its origins, its modus operandi— how much of that can be known? Does it have to be known, to solve the problem? Does it matter how intelligent the intelligence is, once it's inside the box, once it's checkmated?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Old French eschec matbor. Middle English chekmat English checkmate From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Classical Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king [is] amazed”).