Here are two scenarios: One is check, the other is checkmate. Check is when one of your pieces attacks the opposing king.
Checkmate is when the king is attacked, but there's no escape.
The checkmate diagram is impossible... two pieces check the white king, and no discovery was possible by the knight.
Ur right Nytik..
revision of mate:
That "revision" is still not checkmate!
One very bad definition of "check" that I don't like is given by IM Josh Waitzkin in his video "Chess Starts Here" with Bruce Pandolfini. [Good video for little kids learning the game, by the way; I just disagree with this one part.] He says that check is "when your king is attacked, but you can get out of it." Then he goes on to define checkmate as a situation where the king is attacked, but there's no escape. This second definition (of "checkmate") is OK, but the first (of "check") is bad. Checkmates are subsets of checks; therefore, they can't be defined in mutual exclusion of each other.
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