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Vinegar-Stroke Checks

In chess, a computer's meaningless checks just before mate are called 'Vinegar-Stroke
Checks'.
Checkmate is totally unavoidable - all black has left are the meaningless vinegar-stroke checks.
by Alan O'Brien July 15, 2005
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