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Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check and has no legal move. Stalemate results in a draw.During the endgame, stalemate is a resource that can enable the player with the inferior position to draw the game rather than lose. [2]
FICS rules resolve stalemate as a win for the player with the fewer number of pieces remaining; if both have the same number, it is a draw (the piece types are irrelevant). "Joint" FICS/International rules resolves stalemate as a draw unless it is a victory for the same player under both rulesets. [13]
A stalemate in chess occurs when the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move, resulting in the game being a draw. Stalemate may also refer to: Draw (tie) , a result in competitions where there is either no winner or multiple winners
England drew 0-0 with the USA in a Wembley stalemate as Sarina Wiegman faced Emma Hayes on the touchline.. The Lionesses were more secure defensively following last month’s chaotic 4-3 defeat to ...
A stalemate is an automatic draw, as is a draw due to impossibility of checkmate. A draw by threefold repetition or the fifty-move rule may be claimed by one of the players with the arbiter (normally using his score sheet), and claiming it is optional. The draw by fivefold repetition or the seventy-five-move rule is mandatory by the arbiter.
Good morning. It’s September, time for the third annual (for some, fourth annual) Return to Office Debate. It’s remarkable how stale that debate has become.
Another night of learning for England and Sarina Wiegman, even if the only fireworks produced from the visit of Emma Hayes and the United States were those in the pre-match light show at Wembley ...
Chess has five ways of ending or achieving a draw from an opponent: stalemate, agreement between the players, the fifty-move rule (and its extension, seventy-five-move rule), threefold repetition (and its extension, fivefold repetition), or neither player having sufficient material to checkmate. At top-level play, roughly half of games end in a ...