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checkmated

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1. checkmated - Adjective

2. checkmated - Verb

Meaning

of Checkmate

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I first visited Moscow in the late 1980s, I was so intimidated. I thought I could be checkmated by every cabdriver. Viswanathan Anand

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example. Max Beerbohm

For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it's the destiny of every profound idea to be quickly checkmated by another idea, which it itself has implicitly generated. Susan Sontag

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster. Dave Barry

If it is not possible to get out of check, the king is checkmated and the game is over (see the next section). Source: Internet

In The Saga of Earl Mágus, which was written in Iceland somewhere between 1300–1325, it is described how an emperor was checkmated by a bishop. Source: Internet

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