Examples of using "мат»" in a sentence and their english translations:
- Checkmate!
- Checkmate.
- Checkmate!
- Checkmate.
Checkmate, atheists.
- Tom looked at me triumphantly and said, "Check and mate."
- Tom looked at me triumphantly and said, "Checkmate."
White pawn to f3, black pawn to e6, white pawn to g4, black queen to h4 - checkmate! This is jokingly referred to in chess circles as "fool's mate".
If you play like that, you'll be checkmated in ten moves.
Only the king cannot be captured. The imprisonment of a king, that is, checkmate, means the end of the game.
- Maria has a knack for playing chess, she checkmated me in ten moves.
- Maria is a chess whiz, she checkmated me in ten moves.
I'm so terrible at chess, I once got checkmated after only two moves!
Etymologically, checkmate means "the king is dead". However, the king has not "died" in the game of chess for a long time. In fact, the king is the only piece that cannot even be captured, although checkmate finishes the game and, strictly speaking, can be considered as a "death" for the king.
You learn a lot by trying to solve chess problems - for example, how in a given position white will checkmate in three moves.
White: rook on a1, pawn on b6, king on c8. Black: pawns on a7 and b7, king on a8, bishop on b8. White puts the opponent in zugzwang by playing the rook to a6, after which Black has only two options: take the rook on a6 or move his bishop to any other square on the diagonal b8-h2. In the first case, White advances his pawn from b6 to b7 and checkmates. In the second situation, the white rook takes the black pawn on a7, with the same result.