scholar's mate

English

Animation of a scholar's mate.

Etymology

First named and described in The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, a 1656 text by the English author Francis Beale.

Noun

scholar's mate (plural scholar's mates)

1. (chess) The checkmate which occurs shortly after the opening, when the white queen checkmates by taking the black pawn on f7 (or the black queen taking the white pawn on f2), protected by a bishop on c4 (or c5).

Translations

checkmate which occurs after the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Qxf7#

• Arabic: ضَرْبَة الرَاعِي f (ḍarba(t) ar-rāʕī), خطة نابليون
• Armenian: մանկական մատ (mankakan mat)
• Catalan: mat del pastor m, escac i mat del pastor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 四回合將殺／四回合将杀 (sì huíhé jiāngshā)

• Dutch: herdersmat m
• Finnish: koulumatti
• French: coup du berger m, mat du berger m
• German: Schäfermatt n, Schäferzug m, Schustermatt n
• Greek: βαριάντα του Ναπολέοντα f (variánta tou Napoléonta), ναπολεόντειο ματ n (napoleónteio mat)
• Hebrew: מט סנדלרים
• Hungarian: susztermatt (hu)
• Italian: matto del barbiere m
• Korean: 스칼러스 메이트 (seukalleoseu meiteu)
• Latin: mattum scholāris n
• Lithuanian: vaikiškas matas m, kindermatas m
• Macedonian: школски мат m (školski mat)
• Malayalam: സ്കോളർസ് മേറ്റ് (skōḷaṟsŭ mēṟṟŭ)
• Norwegian: skolematten
• Polish: mat szewski m
• Portuguese: mate pastor m
• Russian: де́тский ма́т m (détskij mát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шко̀лскӣ ма̏т m

  Roman: škòlskī mȁt m

• Slovene: šuštar mat m
• Spanish: mate del pastor m, mate pastor m, jaque mate del pastor m, jaque mate pastor m
• Swedish: skolmatt (sv) c
• Tamil: மாணவகன் முற்றுகை (māṇavakaṉ muṟṟukai)
• Turkish: çoban matı
• Ukrainian: дитячий мат m (dytjačyj mat)