Blind Swine Mate

English

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An archetypical Blind swine mate

Alternative forms

• blind swine mate

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

Blind Swine Mate (plural Blind Swine Mates)

1. (chess) 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.