0 a winning position in chess in which you have put the other player's king under a direct attack from which it cannot escape -- (西洋棋中的)將軍,將死
As in standard chess, the winning player is the one who forces his or her opponent's king (or equivalent piece) into checkmate.
As in chess, a captured man is replaced on its cell by the capturing piece, and the winning objective is checkmate.
Clause 22 is designed to checkmate that.
Their only duty is to checkmate the activities of the enemy's battleships.
The use of the battleship is to checkmate the activities of the enemy's battleship.
He has been led on as though he was playing a game of chess to a checkmate.
He likes to proceed rapidly to checkmate in argument, taking a couple of bishops probably on the way!
Such and such a position in chess counts as checkmate.