Is there a move *beyond* checkmate?

Checkmate is not a "move" but a position you find yourself in when you have made no many errors it is impossible to move any further. You constantly bleat that "messages need to be got out" because somebody or other has "hidden them away", and, furthermore, (according to you) it "wasn't like this before. Mr / Ms O'Barmy states quite adamantly that a songwriter is not a particularly good source of politics. Indeed not, it can only be a starting point. One from which you lag far behind. Checkmate is where you are now. There is only one path out of the hole you are in. Will you take it?