Translation for '
Checkmate' from English to Russian
NOUN | checkmate | - | |
VERB | to checkmate | checkmated | checkmated checkmating | checkmates | |
SYNO | to checkmate | to mate |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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Usage Examples English
- Queening a white pawn generally allows White to declare a checkmate within the next few moves. Also, with only the two kings on the board, White can easily force a Monster chess checkmate.
- Yonin shogi departs from standard shogi in its rules for check and checkmate, due to the complications of having four players.
- In general, two knights cannot force checkmate, but they can force stalemate. Three knights can force checkmate, even if the defending king also has a knight or a bishop.
- A single archbishop, chancellor, WFA, or superknight (but not rose) can also force checkmate. Two FDs on different colours can force checkmate without their king's help.
- When the moving piece moves to a square from which it threatens to inflict checkmate on the next move, the tactic is called a "discovered attack with mate threat".
- Checkmate and other conventions are the same as in xiangqi, except that after a checkmate occurs, the mated general is removed from the game, and the player who delivered the checkmate appropriates the mated player's remaining pieces for his own use.
- The scholar's mate is sometimes referred to as the four-move checkmate, although there are other ways for checkmate to occur in four moves.
- In chess, several checkmate patterns occur frequently enough to have acquired specific names in chess commentary.
- The rook is adept at delivering checkmate. Below are a few examples of rook checkmates that are easy to [...]. A single rook can force checkmate while a single minor piece cannot.
- In team play, if a player is put into checkmate, rather than the game ending, their turn is skipped until they are released from checkmate; their king may never be captured.
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