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Blind Swine Mate

Blind Swine Mate noun: a checkmate pattern in which the king is confined to two squares at an edge of the board and then mated by two doubled rooks.

Noun

Blind Swine Mate (plural Blind Swine Mates)

  1. A checkmate pattern in which the king is confined to two squares at an edge of the board and then mated by two doubled rooks.

Forms of Blind Swine Mate

pluralBlind Swine Mates
alternative formblind swine mate

Origin of Blind Swine Mate

Coined by Dawid Janowski who referred to doubled rooks on the 7th rank as "swine".

Questions about Blind Swine Mate

What does Blind Swine Mate mean?
Blind Swine Mate means a checkmate pattern in which the king is confined to two squares at an edge of the board and then mated by two doubled rooks.
What part of speech is Blind Swine Mate?
Blind Swine Mate is a noun.
What is the plural of Blind Swine Mate?
The plural of Blind Swine Mate is Blind Swine Mates.

Words near Blind Swine Mate in the dictionary

  1. blind stamps
  2. blind stitch
  3. blind stitches
  4. blind summit
  5. blind summits
  6. Blind Swine Mate
  7. Blind swine mates
  8. blind swipe
  9. blind test
  10. blind tests
  11. blind thrust fault

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