checkmate

Also known as check mate, #, mate, M8

right|thumb|upright=1.35|White and Black in chess|Black is checkmated and loses the game.

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Checkmate is a position in chess where a player's king is under attack and has no legal move to escape that attack, which immediately ends the game in a loss for that player. It's the ultimate objective of chess and represents the complete defeat of an opponent.

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Commons category: Checkmates
Portable Game Notation: #
Stack Exchange tag: chess.stackexchange.com/tags/checkmate

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Contents

Examples
Etymology
History
Two major pieces
Basic mates
King and queen
King and rook
King and two bishops {{anchor|Two bishops}}
King, bishop and knight
Common checkmates
Back-rank mate
Scholar's mate
Fool's mate
Smothered mate
Rare checkmates
Stamma's mate
Unusual mates
Two and three knights
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography

right|thumb|upright=1.35|White and Black in chess|Black is checkmated and loses the game.

Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with ) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.