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directmates

directmates is the plural of directmate.

Meaning of directmate

Noun

directmate (plural directmates)

  1. A kind of chess problem in which White, moving first, must checkmate Black within a specified number of moves against any defence.
    • Problem 1’s stipulation of “Mate in 2” indicates that it’s a directmate and White must mate by the second move. […] Though not all directmates are successful in incorporating them, you should keep in mind the possibility of such counter-intuitive first moves.2024 December 21, Rocky64, “An introduction to composed chess problems”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2025

Questions about directmates

What is directmates the plural of?
Directmates is the plural of directmate.

Words near directmates in the dictionary

  1. directivities
  2. directivity
  3. directly
  4. directly proportional
  5. directmate
  6. directmates
  7. directness
  8. directnesses
  9. directoire
  10. Directoires
  11. director

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