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Jaque mate or Jaque Mate may refer to: "Jaque mate", Spanish for Checkmate in chess; Jaque Mate (wrestler), born Jaime Álvarez Mendoza in 1948;
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 capture) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game. In chess, the king is never actually captured. The player loses as soon as the player's king is checkmated.
Leontxo ran Jaque magazine for ten years (1991–2001) and has lectured chess in many countries. [1] He ran and presented En Jaque (In Check), a 39 programmes series broadcast by TVE (1990–91), and produced, with Kasparov, the series La pasión del ajedrez (The passion for chess), containing 64 magazines and 25 videos, at Editorial Salvat ...
Mieses largely adhered to the 19th century Romantic school of play and showed little aptitude for positional chess. He used almost exclusively e4 openings and he was the last chess master of note to make any serious use of the Center Game and Vienna Game. On the Black side of an e4 opening, he generally used the French Defense or Sicilian Defense.
Sam is a smart kid with a promising future; Balagan pays Sam for his legwork by giving him more chances to play chess with Balagan. Patrick Gallagher as Hugo – the head of hotel security. He and Balagan have their disagreements; Hugo envies Balagan's superior capabilities solving crimes as a mere chess player while he, as a former detective ...
Jaime Álvarez (footballer) (born 1986), Spanish football manager and former player Jaime Álvarez Mendoza (born 1948), known as Jaque Mate, Mexican wrestler Topics referred to by the same term
A Russian chess player is under investigation after allegedly being caught on camera spraying her opponent’s board with what authorities said was a substance containing mercury as part of an ...
The youngest player to obtain a perfect score in a National Blitz Chess Championship anywhere in the world is Jack Mizzi, who in September 2023 won 9/9 games at the Malta Open Blitz Championship, with a performance rating of 2602, [69] when he was 17 years 4 months old.