Game-ending chess move Crossword Clue

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Game-ending chess move Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the officer below the master on a commercial ship
2. a person’s partner in marriage
(verb)
1. place an opponent’s king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
2. engage in sexual intercourse

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ENDING (noun)
1. event whose occurrence ends something
2. the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
CHESS (noun)
1. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
2. a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent’s king

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