checkmate
Sign in to saveright|thumb|upright=1.35|White and Black in chess|Black is checkmated and loses the game.
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Checkmate is a position in chess where a player's king is under attack and has no legal move to escape that attack, which immediately ends the game in a loss for that player. It's the ultimate objective of chess and represents the complete defeat of an opponent.
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22 sectionsContents
- Examples
- Etymology
- History
- Two major pieces
- Basic mates
- King and queen
- King and rook
- King and two bishops {{anchor|Two bishops}}
- King, bishop and knight
- Common checkmates
- Back-rank mate
- Scholar's mate
- Fool's mate
- Smothered mate
- Rare checkmates
- Stamma's mate
- Unusual mates
- Two and three knights
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
right|thumb|upright=1.35|White and Black in chess|Black is checkmated and loses the game.
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with ) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.