Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Anonymous wrote on Thu, Mar 2, 2006 07:34 PM UTC:If the French expression 'en garde' was used to warn of an eminent attack on the Queen, would that imply an independent inroad through France for the spreading of Chess? It seems that it would be in competition to the foreign-sounding 'check' (from which we get such banking terms as check and ex cheque). What was the term for the comparable kind of warning in Italian? In gardia? Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID check mate does not match any item.