Checkmate (disambiguation)

Checkmate is a situation in the game of chess and other activities which results in defeat.

Checkmate or Checkmates may also refer to:

Fiction and drama

• Checkmate (comics), the title of two series published by DC Comics
• Checkmate (play), an 1869 farcical play by Andrew Halliday
• Checkmates, a 1987 play by Ron Milner
• Checkmates, a 1989 play with Vanessa L. Williams
• Checkmate (Sydney Horler novel), a 1930 novel by Sydney Horler
• Checkmate, a short story from A Twist in the Tale
• Checkmate, the fourth novel in the Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman
• Checkmate, the sixth book in the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett

Film

• Checkmate (1911 film), a 1911 American silent short drama film
• Checkmate (1931 film), a 1931 German film
• Checkmate (1935 film), a British film
• Checkmate (2008 film), an Indian film
• Checkmate (2015 film), an American Film
• Checkmate (short film), a short drama film

Music

• Checkmate (Joe Pass and Jimmy Rowles album), 1981
• Checkmate! (album), 2011
• Check Mate (Barrabás album), 1975
• Checkmate (B.G. album), 2000
• Checkmates, Ltd., American R&B group
• "Checkmate", song from the Cypress Hill album Cypress Hill IV
• "Checkmate, a song from the Gryphon album Red Queen to Gryphon Three

Television

• Checkmate (TV series), the title of a 1960–1962 American TV mystery series
• Checkmate (The Prisoner), a 1967 episode of The Prisoner
• "Checkmate" (Twin Peaks), a season two episode of the cult series, Twin Peaks
• Checkmate (Bengali TV series), a Bengali TV series
• Checkmate (Nigerian TV series), a Nigerian soap opera
• "Checkmate", fourth episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Time Meddler

Other

• Checkmate (ballet), the music for ballet by British composer Arthur Bliss
• Checkmate pattern
• Check-mate system, a ship identification protocol used by the Royal Navy in World War II

See also

• Check (disambiguation)
• Operation Checkmate (disambiguation)
• Jaque Mate (disambiguation)