Aung San Suu Kyi

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Burmese Activist

Michael Beschloss

Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan each suffered through his second four years. FDR was checkmated by Congress and the Supreme Court. Ike was dogged by Sputnik and reckless charges that the United States suffered from a Missile Gap. Reagan had to wend his way through Iran-Contra.

American Historian

Daniel Naroditsky

Most beginners who have learned the point system will only consider a sacrifice if it leads directly to checkmate or if the material can be won back by force. A Grandmaster, though, will frequently sacrifice for less tangible compensation, such as a lead in development or a superior pawn structure.

American Celebrity

David Douglas Duncan

With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.

American Photographer

Max Euwe

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

Dutch Celebrity

Paul Williams

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

American Musician

Howard Staunton

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

English Celebrity

Used strictly in the context of playing chess and represents the end of the game.

Chess Specific

In chess, it means the highest achievement by winning the game.

Ultimate Win

As a verb in chess, it describes the act of putting the opponent in an inescapable position.

Action of Winning

It is metaphorically used to describe a decisive victory in non-chess contexts too.

Beyond Chess

Conveys that strategic planning was used to achieve the upper hand.

Strategic Thinking

 the best human players. But just like the game they’ve mastered, these machines are products of human ingenuity. And perhaps that same ingenuity will guide us out of this apparent checkmate.

A brief history of chess...

 Checkmate. We are missing a completely other side of wars. We are missing my mother's story, who made sure with every siren, with every raid, with every cut off-of electricity,

Zainab Salbi: Women,...

 checkmate and he resigned this game gave me a lot of energy and strength to fight in my upcoming tournaments event competitions and I fought myself into