Arabian mate

English tright kd rl nl kl An archetypical Arabian mate Etymology Possibly named such because the pattern was also possible in shatranj, the Middle Eastern predecessor to chess which included rooks and knights but had many other differences. According to various sources, the mate is described in an eighth century Arabic manuscript,David MacEnulty My First Book of Checkmate 2014 15. Rook and Knight Checkmates https://books.google.com/books?id=7JBXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=Arabian+manuscript#v=onepage&q=Arabian%20manuscript&f=false but this claim could not be substantiated. The pattern, however, does appear as a solution to a position presented in an anonymous Arabic-language manuscript that was copied in 1257 (original source of material unknown).David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld The Oxford Companion to Chess 1984 15 first Arabian mateKitāb fī al-shaṭranj wa-manṣūbātihi wa-mulaḥih (Add MS 7515) كتاب في الشطرنج ومنصوباته وملحه 68r 1257 Qatar Digital Library https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100048233120.0x000091 Noun en Checkmate patternsen chess A checkmate pattern in which a rook provides the checkmate to the cornered king while being protected by a knight that also covers the only would-be escape square. Translations Finnish: fi arabialainen matti German: de arabisches Matt n Romanian: ro References