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From Middle English chekmat Old French eschec mat Arabic شَاه مَاتَ ( šāh māta ) , from Classical Persian شاه مات ( šāh māt , “ the king [is] amazed ” ) .
checkmate
( chess ) Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game .( by extension ) said when making the conclusive move in chess
Albanian: shah mat
Arabic: شَاهْ مَات m ( šāh māt ) , مَات (ar) m ( māt ) , كِش مَلِك m ( kiš malik )
Egyptian Arabic: كش ملك ( kešš malek )
Armenian: շախ և մատ ( šax ew mat ) , մատ (hy) ( mat )
Belarusian: мат ( mat ) , шах і мат ( šax i mat )
Bengali: কিস্তিমাত (bn) ( kistimat )
Bulgarian: мат ( mat ) , шах и мат ( šah i mat )
Catalan: escac i mat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 將軍 / 将军 (zh) ( jiāngjūn )
Czech: mat (cs) , šach mat m
Danish: skakmat c
Dutch: schaakmat (nl) n mat (nl) n
Estonian: šahh ja matt
Faroese: skák og mát
Finnish: shakki ja matti
French: échec et mat (fr)
Galician: xaque mate (gl) , mate (gl) m
Georgian: შამათი (ka) ( šamati )
German: schachmatt (de) , schach und matt
Greek: ματ (el) ( mat )
Hebrew: מָט (he) ( mat )
Hindi: मात (hi) ( māt ) , शहमात (hi) ( śahmāt )
Hungarian: sakk-matt (hu)
Icelandic: skák og mát
Indonesian: syahmat skakmat sekakmat (id)
Italian: scacco matto (it)
Japanese: チェックメイト (ja) ( chekkumeito ) ( in chess ) , 詰み (ja) ( つみ, tsumi ) ( in shōgi )
Kalmyk: мад ( mad )
Khmer: ស្លាប់ក្រឡា ( slap krɑlaa )
Korean: 외통수 ( oetongsu ) ( in janggi ) , 체크메이트 ( chekeumeiteu ) ( in chess )
Latvian: šahs un mats
Macedonian: шах-мат ( šah-mat ) , мат ( mat )
Malay: syahmat (ms)
Māori: whakamiere
Middle English: chekmat
Mongolian: мад (mn) ( mad )
Norwegian: sjakkmatt
Persian: کیش و مات ( kiš o mât ) , شاه مات (fa) ( šâh mât ) , شهمات (fa) ( šahmât ) , مات (fa) ( mât )
Polish: mat (pl) m szach mat szach i mat
Portuguese: xeque-mate (pt) m xaque-mate m
Romanian: șah mat mat (ro)
Russian: мат (ru) m ( mat ) , шах и мат ( šax i mat )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шах-мат мат
Latin: šah-mat (sh) , mat (sh)
Slovak: šachmat mat
Slovene: šah mat mat (sl)
Spanish: jaque mate (es) , mate (es) m
Swedish: schackmatt (sv)
Tagalog: mate (tl)
Tajik: шоҳ мот ( šoh mot )
Thai: รุกฆาต ( rúk-kâat ) , รุกฆาตแล้ว ( rúk-kâat-lɛ́ɛo )
Turkish: şah mat (tr)
Ukrainian: мат m ( mat ) , шах і мат ( šax i mat )
Urdu: شاہ اور مات ( śāh aur māt ) , شاہ مات ( śāh māt )
Vietnamese: chiếu tướng chiếu hết
Welsh: siachmat m
Yiddish: מאַט ( mat )
checkmate (countable and uncountable plural checkmates
( chess ) conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent 's king is threatened with unavoidable capture .
2022 FIDE [1] 10 :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.
( figuratively , by extension) losing situation with no escape ; utter defeat .conclusive victory in a game of chess
Arabic: شَاه مَات ( šāh māt )
Armenian: շախմատ (hy) ( šaxmat )
Belarusian: мат m ( mat )
Bulgarian: мат m ( mat )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 將死 / 将死 (zh) ( jiāngsǐ ) , 將軍 / 将军 (zh) ( jiāngjūn )
Czech: mat (cs) m
Danish: skakmat mat (da)
Dutch: schaakmat (nl) , mat (nl)
Esperanto: ŝakmato (eo)
Estonian: matt
Faroese: mát n
Finnish: matti (fi)
French: échec et mat (fr) m
Galician: xaque mate (gl) m
Georgian: შამათი (ka) ( šamati )
German: Schachmatt (de) n
Greek: ματ (el) n ( mat )
Hebrew: מט (he) ( mat )
Hungarian: sakk-matt (hu) , matt (hu)
Italian: scacco matto (it) m
Japanese: 詰み (ja) ( つみ, tsumi ) ( in shogi ) , チェックメイト (ja) ( chekkumeito ) ( in chess )
Korean: 체크메이트 ( chekeumeiteu ) ( in chess ) , 외통수 ( oetongsu ) ( in janggi )
Māori: whakamiere
Mongolian: мад (mn) ( mad )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjakkmatt
Nynorsk: sjakkmatt
Persian: کیش و مات ( kiš o mât ) , شهمات (fa) ( šahmât ) , مات (fa) ( mât )
Polish: mat (pl) m
Portuguese: xeque-mate (pt) m xaque-mate m
Romanian: șah mat n mat (ro) n
Russian: шах и мат m ( šax i mat ) , мат (ru) m ( mat )
Scottish Gaelic: clos m
Slovak: mat m
Slovene: šah mat m mat (sl) m
Spanish: jaque mate (es) m mate (es) m
Swedish: matt (sv) c schack matt (sv) c
Thai: รุกฆาต ( rúk-kâat )
Ukrainian: мат m ( mat )
Vietnamese: chiếu hết chiếu bí
Zazaki: sah mat c du
losing situation with no escape
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checkmate (third-person singular simple present checkmates present participle checkmating simple past and past participle checkmated
( transitive , chess ) king of an opponent into checkmate .
My opponent checkmated me in four moves!
2022 FIDE [2] 10 :The game is won by the player who has checkmated his/her opponent’s king.
( transitive , by extension) losing situation that has no escape .
2019 December 9, qntm , “Wild Light ”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division , →ISBN 191 :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 ?
to put an opponent into checkmate
Bulgarian: мати́рам (bg) ( matíram )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 把 ...將死 / 把 ...将死 ( bǎ...jiāngsǐ )
Czech: matovat dát mat
Esperanto: ŝakmatigi
Faroese: máta
Finnish: matittaa (fi) , tehdä matti
French: faire échec et mat
Georgian: დაშამათება ( dašamateba ) ( verbal noun ) , აშამათებს ( ašamatebs ) ( infinitive )
Hungarian: mattot ad megmattol (hu)
Icelandic: mát (is) n máta
Italian: dare scacco matto
Japanese: チェックメート (ja) ( chekkumēto )
Māori: whakamiere
Mongolian: мад хийх ( mad xiix )
Persian: شهمات کردن ( šahmât kardan ) , مات کردن (fa) ( mât kardan )
Polish: zamatować pf dać mata pf
Russian: ста́вить мат impf ( stávitʹ mat ) , поста́вить мат pf ( postávitʹ mat )
Scottish Gaelic: cuir clos air
Slovak: dať šach mat
Slovene: matirati
Swedish: schackmatta (sv) , sätta matt göra matt sätta schackmatt göra schackmatt
Thai: รุกฆาต ( rúk-kâat )
Turkish: mat etmek (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: مات ایتمك ( mat etmek ) , كش ایتمك ( kiş etmek )
Vietnamese: chiếu bí
to lead to a situation of no escape
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