Check mate

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Check mate
Roland Kaiser
publication June 1979
length 3:39
Genre (s) Bat
Author (s) Bernd Dietrich, Gerd Grabowski, Heino Petrik, Roland Kaiser
album Something from me

Schach Matt is a song by the German singer Roland Kaiser from 1979 to a text by Bernd Dietrich , Gerd Grabowski and Heino Petrik .

Publication and content

Schach Matt was first released in June 1979 on Kaiser's third studio album, Something of Me . In Germany, the song placed 32nd and stayed in the charts for a total of 11 weeks.

The song is about a woman with long black hair who gives a man a smiling look, whereupon the man weakens because he has fallen in love with that woman. However, the woman puts him in checkmate .

Track list of the single

7 ″ single

  1. Checkmate (3:39)
  2. I never want to be a role model for others (3:03)

Cover versions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Die Darufgänger - Checkmate (Single) at universal-music.de