Examples of using "¡jaque" in a sentence and their english translations:
Check.
- Checkmate!
- Checkmate.
- Checkmate!
- Checkmate.
Tom checked the king with his bishop.
- Tom looked at me triumphantly and said, "Check and mate."
- Tom looked at me triumphantly and said, "Checkmate."
Tom sacrificed his rook to avoid mate.
If you play like that, you'll be checkmated in ten moves.
I checkmated my opponent by using my two rooks.
- Maria has a knack for playing chess, she checkmated me in ten moves.
- Maria is a chess whiz, she checkmated me in ten moves.
Only the king cannot be captured. The imprisonment of a king, that is, checkmate, means the end of the game.
In chess, castling may only be carried out when both the king and the involved rook have not been moved, all the squares between them are free and not dominated by any opposing piece and the king is not in check and would not be put in check by castling.
You learn a lot by trying to solve chess problems - for example, how in a given position white will checkmate in three 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.
The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.
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".
Combination is a tactical maneuver, usually in a sequence of two or more moves, that a player performs sacrificing material, often in a spectacular way, in order to checkmate the opponent's king or put him in an irreparably disadvantageous situation.
It was my turn to play and my king wasn't being attacked, that is, wasn't put in check. But, none of my pieces could make any valid move. Thus, what is called "drowned king" or "draw by drowning" was characterized. The match was a draw.
"How did you like that, dear friend," said Tom with a smile, "this checkmate that I gave you with my queen?" - Mary was shocked at first. Would she have missed something? But she soon smiled too and replied, "Well, what would you think if I captured your queen with my knight?" And having moved the knight, she removed the queen from the board.
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.