Checkmate

//ˈt͡ʃɛkmeɪt//

"Checkmate" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Two fat men trying to pass through a narrow doorway are in checkmate.

Checkmate!

Checkmate.

Perhaps we are all chess pieces for a Greater Power who is trying to checkmate evil.

Tom looked at me triumphantly and said, "Checkmate."

You'll be checkmate in three moves.

Checkmate, atheists.

Only the king cannot be captured. The imprisonment of a king, that is, checkmate, means the end of the game.

"How did you like that, dear friend," said Tom with a smile, "this checkmate that I gave you with my queen?" - Mary was shocked at first. Would she have missed something? But she soon smiled too and replied, "Well, what would you think if I captured your queen with my knight?" And having moved the knight, she removed the queen from the board.

White pawn to f3, black pawn to e6, white pawn to g4, black queen to h4 - checkmate! This is jokingly referred to in chess circles as "fool's mate".

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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?

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