scholar's mate

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

English

Animation of a scholar's mate.
Animation of a scholar's mate.
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

First named and described in The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, a 1656 text by the English author Francis Beale.

Noun

scholar's mate (plural scholar's mates)

  1. (chess) The checkmate which occurs shortly after the opening, when the white queen checkmates by taking the black pawn on f7 (or the black queen taking the white pawn on f2), protected by a bishop on c4 (or c5).

Translations