Game-ending announcement

Usage examples of checkmate.

Del had seen the checkmate coming at him, four moves away but one move too late for him to do anything about it.

He thought of himself sitting in a dingy little shop full of tobacco all day long, and no one to play chess withno one he could not checkmate easily.

Blankenship had moved a rook to an innocent-looking square and strolled on to the next boardand then Del had seen the checkmate coming at him, four moves away but one move too late for him to do anything about it.

The would-be solver will naturally focus on finding a way to checkmate on this square, making the problem too easy.

It was the next thing to a checkmate, so Quelby simply went through the formalities of completing the game.

Each of them offered plenty of traps and checkmates should Black err, but each of them seemed to fail against correct play, and they had to assume Bunnish would play correctly.

Meanwhile Bunnish would be getting checkmated in the middle of the board.

This control pleased him, but did not take away the fury that she had checkmated him.

If the black king can be checkmated more quickly, or if either pawn can at any time make any other move and yet achieve the same result, the problem is cooked, which is to say, worthless.

The Double Excelsior, but with black victorious in the end: two lonely pawns, one white and one black, pathetic in their powerlessness, beginning on their home squares and matching each other, move for move, until, on the fifth turn, each reaches the far end of the board and becomes a knight, the final move checkmating the white king.

But the Governor of Paraguay having returned apparently to his design of exacting personal service from the Indians of the missions, the Provincial checkmated him with a royal order from Philip IV.

Ten thousand bucks was a new trailer, or a new truck, or maybe one of those Checkmate speedboats that Boog Powell was selling.

The light in his eyes, which would have done a checkmating chessplayer justice, was a far more accurate indicator of how he operated.

But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties, of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player, bankrupts every self-seeker, and apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,- that man liberates me.

You remained with me, cannily checkmating my moves when you could, and seeking always to have your men kill me.