| 单词 | fool's mate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfool's mate fool's mate n. (also fools' mate) Chess a form of checkmate, given on Black's second move by the queen on h4, after the advance of the g-pawn (to g4) and the f-pawn on White's first two moves; also in figurative contexts.Fool's mate is occasionally also used (particularly by non-chess players) to denote the form of checkmate given in four moves, normally called scholar's mate n. (see scholar n. Compounds 3). Unlike scholar's mate, fool's mate almost never occurs in real games, but it is notable and very familiar to chess players as the shortest possible decisive chess game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > check or checkmate matec1330 mating?a1400 checkc1426 checkmatec1440 scholar's mate1614 fool's mate1618 scholar's check1674 perpetual check1750 smothered mate1804 sui-mate1846 selfmate1848 perpetual1966 1618 J. Barbier Saul's Famous Game Chesse-play (new ed.) xx. sig. E8 A Mate in two draughts..which Mate for him that hath given him, may well..be termd the fools mate. 1787 R. Twiss Chess I. 137 The Scholar's Mate is given in four, and the Fool's Mate in two moves. 1884 Harper's Young People 5 Feb. 219/1 I have shown you the scholar's mate and the fool's mate, partly to warn you of the danger, but more because they show you the game in its simplest form, teach you how checkmate is given, and may give you some notion of how you must look for danger. 1982 P. Kitcher Abusing Science ii. 35 The Creationist try for a quick Fools' Mate can easily be avoided. 2015 Yale Herald (Nexis) 17 Apr. 1 It's a fool's mate, a match won in only a handful of moves. < as lemmas |
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