Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is a game position in chess (and in other board games of the chaturanga family) in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture) and there is no way to remove the threat. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.
it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. Berean Study Bible. And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil.