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Checkmate

The all-times favorite black-and-white game has a deeper meaning, if you know where its name comes from!

Checkmate is originally a Persian game and so is its name: the Arabic shah means ‘king’ while mat means to be left astonished, helpless. Which is the purpose of the game, right?

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Written by Victoria Sheinkin

Victoria Sheinkin is a writer, content editor, translator and chief editor for UnusedWords.com. Speaking three and a half languages, she holds two BAs from the Tel Aviv university- Communication and jounalism, English literature and linguistics.

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