Checkmate (Persian: كيش و مات ، kish-o-mat Means King is Defeated) (often shortened to mate) is a game position in chess (and in other board games of the chaturanga a word with persian origin: چترنگ Chatrang family) in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture) and there is no way to remove the threat. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.