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† patt, n. (a.) Chess. Obs.
[= Du. and Ger. patt, F. pat (in Jeu des eschets de Greco, 1669), all in same sense, ad. It. patto ‘covenant, agreement, pact’; hence, in Chess, ‘a draw by consent’, and, by extension, ‘a drawn game’ generally.
So used already in 1511 in Chachi's MS. collection of Chess Problems (MS., Casanetense Lib., Rome, 791, lf. 28 a) ‘li andati ad fronte et sera pacta’. Specialized in F., Ger., Du., and Eng. to denote a particular kind of draw.]
The position of stalemate. b. as adj. In this position.
1735Bertin Chess 67 Situation of the Game named Patt. Ibid. 68 And the white loses the game, the black king being Patt. Ibid. 71 And if the white queen takes the black queen, it loses the game by Patt. [1904H. J. R. Murray in Let., In England from 1612 to c 1750, and in out-of-the-way places till c 1805, the player who put his opponent into ‘patt’ lost the game. Why, no one knows: but as the same rule held in certain continental varieties of chess which appear to have a Tatar rather than an Arabic origin, I suspect it was an innovation brought from Russia by some Elizabethan traveller. The rule, so far as book evidence goes, was never followed in France or Southern Europe, where ‘patt’ was always = a draw.] |