Checkmate

Quality:

Checkmate - winning game position in chess. Article “Checkmate” in English Wikipedia has 82.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 69 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Checkmate” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Checkmate”, its content was written by 289 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1397 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 766 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4130 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6861 in February 2004
• Global: #3792 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6272 in July 2012
• Global: #11335 in July 2012

There are 45 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Checkmate		82.695
2	Arabic (ar) كش مات		68.2976
3	Indonesian (id) Sekakmat		67.0533
4	Tamil (ta) இறுதி முற்றுகை		58.9082
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chiếu hết (cờ vua)		57.258
6	Bulgarian (bg) Мат		49.5823
7	Catalan (ca) Escac i mat		36.5792
8	Polish (pl) Mat (szachy)		35.6726
9	Malay (ms) Syahmat		32.9232
10	Japanese (ja) 詰み		31.8997

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Checkmate		3 687 574
2	Spanish (es) Jaque mate		1 373 075
3	French (fr) Échec et mat		682 886
4	Russian (ru) Мат (шахматы)		621 136
5	Portuguese (pt) Xeque-mate		578 263
6	German (de) Schachmatt		446 484
7	Japanese (ja) 詰み		422 554
8	Italian (it) Scacco matto		395 549
9	Polish (pl) Mat (szachy)		319 913
10	Korean (ko) 외통수		140 063

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Checkmate		13 519
2	French (fr) Échec et mat		2 918
3	Russian (ru) Мат (шахматы)		1 840
4	Spanish (es) Jaque mate		1 813
5	German (de) Schachmatt		961
6	Italian (it) Scacco matto		919
7	Japanese (ja) 詰み		821
8	Portuguese (pt) Xeque-mate		719
9	Chinese (zh) 將死		700
10	Arabic (ar) كش مات		566

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Checkmate		289
2	German (de) Schachmatt		111
3	French (fr) Échec et mat		84
4	Russian (ru) Мат (шахматы)		81
5	Spanish (es) Jaque mate		78
6	Italian (it) Scacco matto		78
7	Dutch (nl) Schaakmat		62
8	Japanese (ja) 詰み		54
9	Norwegian (no) Sjakkmatt		45
10	Portuguese (pt) Xeque-mate		45

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Checkmate		3
2	Spanish (es) Jaque mate		1
3	Finnish (fi) Shakkimatti		1
4	French (fr) Échec et mat		1
5	Turkish (tr) Mat		1
6	Chinese (zh) 將死		1
7	Arabic (ar) كش مات		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Mat (şahmat)		0
9	Belarusian (be) Мат (шахматы)		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Мат		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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