Editing Checkmate (section)

==Examples==
A checkmate may occur in as few as two moves on one side with all of the [[chess piece|pieces]] still on the [[chessboard|board]] (as in [[fool's mate]], in the [[chess opening|opening]] phase of the game), in a [[chess middlegame|middlegame]] position (as in the 1956 game called the [[The Game of the Century (chess)|Game of the Century]] between [[Donald Byrne]] and [[Bobby Fischer]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361 |title=D. Byrne vs. Fischer, New York 1956 |website=[[Chessgames.com]] |access-date=17 September 2022 }}</ref> or after many moves with as few as three pieces in an [[chess endgame|endgame]] position.

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