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49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كش مات المغفل — quickest possible checkmate
• Arabic: مات النقلتين — quickest possible checkmate
• Arabic: مَات الْمُبْتَدَأ (māt al-mubtadaʔ) — quickest possible checkmate
• Arabic: مَات التِّلْمِيذ (māt at-tilmīḏ) — quickest possible checkmate
• Armenian: հիմար մատ (himar mat) — quickest possible checkmate
• Bengali: বোকার মাত (bōkar mat) — quickest possible checkmate
• Catalan: mat del boig — quickest possible checkmate
• Chinese Mandarin: 愚者自將 /愚者自将 (yúzhě zìjiàng) — quickest possible checkmate
• Chinese Mandarin: 兩回合將殺 /两回合将杀 (liǎng huíhé jiāngshā) — quickest possible checkmate
• Czech: mat bláznů — quickest possible checkmate
• Dutch: narrenmat — quickest possible checkmate
• Dutch: gekkenmat — quickest possible checkmate
• Esperanto: stultula mato — quickest possible checkmate
• Estonian: karjapoiss — quickest possible checkmate
• Estonian: karjapoisi matt — quickest possible checkmate
• Finnish: narrinmatti — quickest possible checkmate
• French: mat du lion — quickest possible checkmate
• French: mat du sot — quickest possible checkmate
• French: mat de l'imbécile — quickest possible checkmate
• French: mat du débutant — quickest possible checkmate
• French: mat de l'écolier — quickest possible checkmate
• German: Narrenmatt — quickest possible checkmate
• Greek: ματ των ανοήτων (mat ton anoḯton) — quickest possible checkmate
• Hebrew: מט טיפשים — quickest possible checkmate
• Hungarian: bolondmatt — quickest possible checkmate
• Icelandic: heimaskítsmát — quickest possible checkmate
• Italian: matto dell'imbecille — quickest possible checkmate
• Italian: matto dello stolto — quickest possible checkmate
• Japanese: フールズ・メイト (fūruzu meito) — quickest possible checkmate
• Korean: 풀스 메이트 (pulseu meiteu) — quickest possible checkmate
• Latin: mattum stulti — quickest possible checkmate
• Lithuanian: kvailio matas — quickest possible checkmate
• Lithuanian: matas dviem ėjimais — quickest possible checkmate
• Malayalam: ഫൂൾസ് മേറ്റ് (phūḷsŭ mēṟṟŭ) — quickest possible checkmate
• Polish: mat szkolny — quickest possible checkmate
• Polish: mat głupca — quickest possible checkmate
• Polish: mat żakowski — quickest possible checkmate
• Portuguese: mate do louco — quickest possible checkmate
• Russian: дура́цкий мат (duráckij mat) — quickest possible checkmate
• Slovene: nori mat — quickest possible checkmate
• Spanish: mate del loco — quickest possible checkmate
• Swedish: tokmatt — quickest possible checkmate
• Swedish: idiotmatt — quickest possible checkmate
• Tamil: முட்டாளின் இறுதி (muṭṭāḷiṉ iṟuti) — quickest possible checkmate
• Turkish: aptal matı — quickest possible checkmate
• Ukrainian: безглуздий мат (bezhluzdyj mat) — quickest possible checkmate
• Vietnamese: mat đần độn — quickest possible checkmate
• Vietnamese: mat trong hai nước — quickest possible checkmate
• Vietnamese: chiếu hết trong hai nước — quickest possible checkmate