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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.
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.
The blind swine mate pattern's name is attributed to Polish master Dawid Janowski who referred to doubled rooks on a player's 7th rank as "swine". [8] In the first diagram with White to play, White can force checkmate as follows:
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Jaque mate or Jaque Mate may refer to: "Jaque mate", Spanish for Checkmate in chess ...
Jaque (Spanish for the Chess move check) was a Spanish chess magazine, [1] published twice a month in Valencia. It started in San Sebastian in 1970 and was the Spanish leading chess magazine since then. Some of the best chess players in the world contributed to the magazine. Its last issue was published in July 2012.