| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| MATE | "I win," to a chess player |
| MATE | Chess player's "I win" |
| MATE | "I win," in chess |
| KINGSRANSOM | Tidy sum, to a chess player? |
| GETAMOVEON | Memo to a dilatory chess player |
| zugzwang | in chess, a situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect. |
| zugzwang | (German) a situation in a chess game in which a player is forced to make an undesirable or disadvantageous move / to place in zugzwang |
| stalemate | in chess, a situation where a player not actually in check has no possible legal move, resulting in a draw; an inglorious deadlock / to subject to a stalemate |
