Name in Other Languages
- In some languages, including French, Turkish, German, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese: Shepherd's Mate.
- In Italian: Barber's Mate.
- In Persian, Greek and Arabic: Napoleon's Plan.
- In Russian: Children's Mate.
- In Polish (where Fool's Mate is known as Scholar's Mate), Danish, Hungarian, Slovenian and Hebrew: Shoemaker's Mate.
- In Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish: School Mate.
- Scholar's Mate has also occasionally been given other names in English, such as Schoolboy's Mate and Blitzkrieg (German for "lightning war", meaning a very short and quick engagement) (Kidder 1960).
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