Checkmate

To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

knight

Games; Chess

The knight is a piece in the game in chess, representing a knight(armoured cavalry.It is normally represented by a horse's head and neck. Each players starts with two knights, ...

bishop

Games; Chess

A bishop is a piece in the board game of a chess, Each player begins the game with two bishops. One starts between the king's knight and the king the other between the queen's ...

match

Games; Chess

A contest between two players only, as distinguished from a tournament. The term often refers to a contest of many games, but is sometimes used to describe a single game.

Knight

Games; Chess

A chess piece which moves either two squares vertically and one square horizontally or two squares horizontally and one square vertically. In the first step of this move, the ...

ladder

Games; Chess

A fluid method of ranking chess players within a club or other group. The ladder is usually established by listing players according to their chess rating. Any player may ...

zugzwang

Games; Chess

A German term that means "compulsion to move". It refers to a situation in which a player would prefer to do nothing because any move leads to a deterioration of his position, but ...

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God particle

Also called Higgs boson, it's a yet to be discovered particle that gives mass matter when sufficient energy is imparted to the Higgs Field. The God ...