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Verb
/ˈCHekˌmāt/,
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checkmates, plural;
  1. Put into checkmate

  2. Defeat or frustrate totally
    • - the use of technology to checkmate present missile technology
Noun
  1. A check from which a king cannot escape

  2. (by a player) Announcing that the opponent's king is in such a position

  3. A final defeat or deadlock
    • - if the rebel forces succeed in cutting off the road, they will have achieved checkmate
  1. complete victory
  2. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"
  3. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
  4. Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one player's king is threatened with capture (in check) and there is no way to meet that threat. ...
  5. Checkmate is the fourth studio album by rapper B.G. released on Cash Money Records. It was his last release with the label. All production was done by producer Mannie Fresh. It features guest appearances from the Hot Boys, & the Big Tymers. ...
  6. Checkmate is a one act ballet created by the choreographer Ninette de Valois and composer Arthur Bliss. The idea for the ballet was proposed by Bliss, and subsequently produced by de Valois for the Vic-Wells Ballet. ...
  7. The 11th season of the Australian police-drama Blue Heelers premiered on the Seven Network on 4 February 2004 and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:30 PM. The 39-episode season concluded 5 November 2004.
  8. Checkmate is a fictional covert operations agency within the DC Comics universe. It first appeared in Action Comics #598 and proceeded to have its own ongoing title in Checkmate! (vol. 1). ...
  9. Petals Around the Rose is a lateral thinking mind game traditionally played with five dice.
  10. Checkmate is a 2008 Marathi film.
  11. Checkmate is a live album by American jazz guitarist Joe Pass and pianist Jimmy Rowles, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). It was re-issued in 1998 on CD by Original Jazz Classics.
  12. The following is a list of characters who appear in Yudetamago's manga and anime series Ultimate Muscle/Kinnikuman Nisei.
  13. Checkmate is a Canadian hip hop artist from Vancouver. He is most known for the 1998 single "Northern Touch" which featured Kardinal Offishall, Choclair, Rascalz and Thrust. He has also done work with Rascalz out side Northern Touch. His 2002 album R.A.W. was nominated at the 2003 Juno Awards
  14. Checkmate (1930) is one of the many popular novels written by Englishman Sydney Horler in the first half of the 20th century. Forgotten today, the book describes the exciting lifestyle of the wealthy social elite. ...
  15. Checkmate is the ninth episode of the television series The Prisoner; as its title suggests, the plot centres around a game of chess in which the pieces are humans, directed by a mysterious "man with a stick". ...
  16. Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions".
  17. Twin Peaks, a dramatic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, premiered on April 8, 1990 on the ABC Network in the United States and ended on June 10, 1991. The show spans two seasons of 30 episodes. ...
  18. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king has no possible move that can remove him from check, the threat of attack; Any situation that has no obvious escape and involves some personal loss; To put the king of an opponent into checkmate; To lead to a ...
  19. a self-inflicted torture by novices who don't know the word "resigns."
  20. noun: utter defeat. verb: to defeat completely (from game of chess: a check (see above) in which capture cannot be averted)
  21. Check that cannot be countered. The concept of checkmate is clearly related to the capture of the king, but we cannot substitute the rule that capture of the king is the aim of the game since then stalemate would be a win also. ...
  22. (related terms: Ponce de Leon, Rochelle, Rochelle) 1. movie that Elaine, Jerry, George and Kramer try to see. 2. showing at the Paragon and the Paradise. 3. quote: “I’ve been dying to see Checkmate…Well, if it’s half as good as “Ponce de Leon”. I’ll be be happy” — Elaine & George 4. ...
  23. From the Persian "shah mat" meaning the king is dead.
  24. To "check" your opponent's king with no way for him to get out. "Checkmate" ends the game.
  25. When the king is captured by a piece.