This " Romantic" style reached its peak in the Immortal Game of 1851, where Adolf Anderssen managed a checkmate after sacrificing his queen and both rooks.
Because with a little but sufficient ability to checkmate and then win the game by planning out my tactics and encountering the coincidences along the way.
A second game followed; and being herself absolutely indifferent as to the result (her playing was above the average among women, and she knew it), she allowed him to give checkmate again.
" Oh I suppose not, " she sighed, and she sat down to watch their chess match, which culminated in an exciting checkmate of Ron's, involving a couple of recklessly brave pawns and a very violent bishop.
'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still, ' said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.'
But with its spread to Sassanid Persia, it acquired its current name and terminology– " chess, " derived from " shah, " meaning king, and " checkmate" from " shah mat, " or " the king is helpless" .