White is in check, and the only positions the white king can move to are g1 and g2, but neither is allowed because the king would be in check there as he would be next to the opponent's king. So the game is won for the player giving check.Ĭonsider the following position. Even if the king moved next to the opponent's king, it would be in check from the king. The king is checked, and there is no legal way toĮscape check. Opponents king, therefore being in check by the king. He had him in check,Īnd the only way he could move out of check was to move his king next to his Is this checkmate or stalemate? The other night my husband was playing with a friend.
When the game is drawn, each player gets half a point. Even in the positions shown below, black's king still has one move available to it.Īnyway, whether the game is drawn by stalemate, by bare kings, or for some other reason, there is no winner, and there is no tie-breaking method for determining a winner. But there is no possible position two bare kings could be put in that would count as stalemate. When only two kings are left, this is indeed a draw, because neither player can checkmate the other. Also, in Chess itself, there are other ways of drawing the game besides stalemate. In some games, such as Chinese Chess, stalemate actually counts as a win. It is not at all the same thing as a draw. Since stalemate is a draw in Chess, all too many people speak of stalemate as though it is the same thing as a draw. How do you determine the winner after a stalemate in chess? Only two kings Such a position is precisely what is called a stalemate. This is just to illustrate the kind of position you are describing. The following position fits your description, though I'm sure many other positions would too. He thinks it was a checkmate, but I wasn't in check. I think that it was a stalemate, because a player can't move into check. So I couldn't move into check, therefore I couldn't move my piece.
It was my turn to move and all of my possible moves that had would have put me in check. I was backed into a corner and he didn't have me in check. I was down to my king and he had a pawn, a queen, and his king. Is this a mate or a stalemate? I was playing my dad in chess the other night. In case of a stalemate, the game is a draw: 1/2 - 1/2. The knightĪlso cannot move, as moving the knight would mean that the white rook would give check.Īlso, white does not give check to black, so it is a stalemate. His pawn cannot move,Īnd his king also cannot move as every place it could go is attacked by white. It is black's turn to move, but he has no legal move. What is stalemate?Ī player is stalemated when on his turn he has no legal move but is not in check. In this position, all black can do is move the king to safety. If it takes the knight, the king will still be checked by the rook, and if it block's the rook's check, the king will still be checked by the knight. Thanks to the double check, the queen on e8 is unable to capture the knight or block the check from the rook. White has moved his knight to e7, which checks the king on g8, and by moving from the g file, it has revealed a check on the king from the rook.
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