noun
definition
The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
definition
(by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
verb
definition
To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
example
That jerk checkmated me in four moves!
definition
(by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
interjection
definition
Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
definition
(by extension) Said when one has checkmated someone (placed them in a losing situation with no escape.)
Examples of checkmate in a Sentence
This inability to move is called a "checkmate."
Most chess programs look first to see whether they can force a checkmate.
Find the right way to deliver a checkmate in one, two or more moves from hundreds of chess positions provided by the author.
If both players are in checkmate at the same time, the game may end in a draw.
When a king is in the position of not being able to make a move, it is known as "checkmate" and the game is finished.
A Checkmate or Mate - One army moves their pieces in such a way that the opposing King cannot move without being captured.
Imagine being able to see the expression on your date's face when they got stuck with the queen in Hearts or when you say "checkmate" in chess.
He spoke like Mr. Checkmate, the Immortal that greeted her on the beach and spoke of a history with her when she'd never seen him before.
You move pieces around and attempt to use your laser at certain points to "checkmate" the Pharaoh.
The rules of chess for the Transformers chess set is the same, but the pieces that you move around to create strategies and combinations to checkmate the King are different.
If she's put into a situation where she has no choice but to do so, she is in "checkmate", and the other player wins.
He even sent ambassadors to Rome to protest against ecclesiastical corruption, as well as to checkmate the Venetian diplomatists who threatened Europe with Ottoman of fhe vengeance if the Portuguese commercial monopoly were not relaxed.
He was soon at war with Russia, and his aid was eagerly solicited by both England and Napoleon, anxious to checkmate one another in the East.
Mr. Checkmate was probably not smiling anymore.
In the papal states a society called the Sanfedisti or Bande della Santa Fede had been formed to checkmate the Carbonari, and their behaviour and character resembled those of the Calderai of Naples.
She agreed with their plan of an armed congress, and on this idea both she and Fersen insisted with all their might, Fersen leaving Brussels and going on a mission to the emperor to try and gain support and checkmate the émigrés, whose desertion the queen bitterly resented, and whose rashness threatened to frustrate her plans and endanger the lives of her family.
The French foreign minister, Delessart, believed that he would checkmate all the efforts of the emigres at the continental courts provided that he could confirm Pitt in his intention of keeping England neutral.
A familiar face appeared from the words, the golden-skinned deity she nicknamed Mr. Checkmate the first time they met at the Immortal Sanctuary.
She spun at the voice, startled to see Mr. Checkmate, the man she'd met on the beach when she arrived at the Sanctuary the first time.
In the midst of the frequent changes of pope which went on during these years, and the political vicissitudes of Italy, Hildebrand took such measures as .enabled him to checkmate the opposition of the Roman barons by turning against them, now the armed force of the Normans, now the influence of the German king.'