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Quite often seen with spaces or hyphens.
As an aside I saw 'check, mate' today.
That seems fine to me. I've heard "check and mate" a bunch, so this isn't too much of a stretch for me.
They clearly meant checkmate though.
So do the people who say "check and mate."