Etymology

Blind Swine Mate

Today it 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. Full definition →

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

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