abstract:In chess, an ideal mate is a checkmate position that is a special form of model mate. While in a model mate, each piece on the mating player's side (possibly excluding the king and pawns depending on context) participates in the mate, an ideal mate involves all the pieces of the mated player's as well, typically by blocking the mated king's field of movement so that it cannot escape.
After a series of what-would you-do-if questions, replete with game-show invoking bells and whistles, users are matched with an idealmate avatar and corresponding Tacori engagement ring suggestion (mine was ivy-leaguer Jack Calloway on bended knee with a square-cut diamond solitaire).
He would make, if not a sure-fire Russian presidential candidate in his own right, then the ideal running-mate for any Russian conservative or nationalist seeking to succeed Boris Yeltsin.