checkmate

Example Sentences

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But will either help their team to a checkmate position by full-time?

From BBC

Only a few other rudimentary hints were offered, such as that white should move first, and the object of the game was to checkmate, but not actually capture, the king.

From Literature

In chess that might be checkmate, in chip design it’s computational efficiency.

From The Verge

“How can you checkmate a circus? It doesn’t make any sense.”

From Literature

One mistake is the argument that discovery claims are necessarily retrospective because ‘discovery’ is an ‘achievement word’, like checkmate in chess.

From Literature