The Check and Mate trope as used in popular culture. The battle's over and you've lost, you just don't know it yet. Let me tell you how, and maybe why.

In fiction, checkmate more often than not comes as a complete surprise, leaving the losing player baffled and the winning player smug about their intellectual ...

Checkmate ... A spy organization in The DCU, Checkmate has been the focus of two ongoing series and maintains a presence in the DCU, both comics and film.

This episode was originally intended to be a standalone Dear Negative Reader skit responding to the backlash from Lost Causers toward Andrew Rakich's earlier ...

Formed from the ashes of the organization called the Agency, Checkmate was originally a covert action group headed up by Amanda Waller with the purpose of …

Оценка 4,0 (258 254) 7 нояб. 2023 г. · Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, ...

Checkmate. During a game of human chess in The Village, one rook steps out of line and makes a move on his own initiative...and is promptly ejected.

Based on Persona 5 Royal, the main premise of this story is that instead of Ren being the leader of the Phantom Thieves, Makoto instead leads them as the ...

14,00 $ 7 нояб. 2023 г. · In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players ...

12 нояб. 2023 г. · I think that Ali Hazelwood has become one of my favorite authors for romance and enemies-to-lovers and just straight up 'slow burn' with 'banter' galore.