We just call that checkmate. "End game," while similar, has a somewhat counter-intuitively different meaning in common parlance. We all understand what you're getting at, but for what I hope are obvious reasons the two terms refer to two different things. On 4/1/09, tbaileysr@xxxxxxxxx <tbaileysr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My point was it doesn't matter when it occurs in a game chekmate is the end thus end game. > > TBsr > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Kronengold <mneme@xxxxxx> > > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:13:30 > To: <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Icehouse] Homeworlds Terminology > > > tbaileysr@xxxxxxxxx writes: > >But isn't checkmate the quintessential end game? > > Checkmate != fool's mate. > > Checkmate is how you win a Chess game. > > Fool's Mate is: > > p-kb3 | p-k4 > p-kn3 | q-kr4 (mate) > > And conversationally, similar situations where the game ends in the > minimal number of moves. > > Bluebird is an endgame mistake that involves p1 blowing up half the > homeworld of p2 and allowing p2 to win specifically -because- of the > destruction of half her homeworld. > > > -- > Joshua Kronengold (mneme@(io.com, labcats.org)) |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) > --^-- "Did you know, if you increment enough, you /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' > /\\ get an extra digit?" "I knew," weeps Six. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ > /-\\\ "We knew. But we had forgotten." '---''(_/--' (_/-' > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > -- - |) () /\/