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scholar's mate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English

Syllables
schol-ar's -mate
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The checkmate which occurs shortly after the opening, when the white queen checkmates by taking the black pawn on f7 (or the black queen taking the white pawn on f2), protected by a bishop on c4 (or c5).

Etymology

First named and described in The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, a 1656 text by the English author Francis Beale.

Inflected Forms

scholar's mates (plural)

Questions

What does scholar's mate mean?
The checkmate which occurs shortly after the opening, when the white queen checkmates by taking the black pawn on f7 (or the black queen taking the white pawn on f2), protected by a bishop on c4 (or c5).
Where does scholar's mate come from?
First named and described in The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, a 1656 text by the English author Francis Beale.

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