Mayet’s Mate occurs when a rook is placed right next to the enemy king whilst the rook is supported by a distant bishop. The king is further obstructed by his own pieces: Cozio’s Mate was originally a study published by Carlos Cozio, an Italian chess player from the 18th century.

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Speelman, Jon; Tisdall, Jon; Wade, Bob (1993), Batsford Chess Endings, B. T. Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-4420-7 In many blitz time controls, a kingtake will be allowed, resulting in an immediate loss for the second player. These facts are the only things that are mine and real. So I don’t mind so much that I’m leaving it all behind. There’s nothing here worth holding onto. There are a few combinations to leave the chessboard with insufficient mating material. The best examples are: Diagram above:1.Ra8# The Lawnmower Mate is named after the alternating advance of the 2 rooks that push the enemy king all the way to the edge of the board. It is because of this “rolling” action that the pattern is sometimes referred to as the Rook Roller’s Mate.

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Diagram above:1.Rf7# is the Vukovic Mate. Note the important role of the knight (covering the escape squares e8 and g8). The white pawn on e6 supports the rook, but this task could also be accomplished by any other piece that would defend the rook. Reinfeld, Fred (1959). The Complete Chess Course. Doubleday & Company, Inc. p.330. ISBN 0385004648.In modern Persian, the word mate depicts a person who is frozen, open-mouthed, staring, confused and unresponsive. The words "stupefied" or "stunned" bear close correlation. So a possible alternative would be to interpret mate as "unable to respond". A king being in mate (shah-mat) then means a king is unable to respond, which would correspond to there being no response that a player's king can make to the opponent's final move. This interpretation is much closer to the original intent of the game being not to kill a king but to leave him with no viable response other than surrender, which better matches the origin story detailed in the Shahnameh.