Win, Lose, or Draw: How Does That Happen?
Checkmate- the Aim of the Game!
The aim of the game is to put your opponent's king in a position where is can't escape being captured on the next move. When the king is in check (it's threatened with capture) and there is no move that can prevent it from being captured in the very next move, we say the king is 'Checkmated' Checkmate ends the game. When you checkmate your opponent, you win; when your opponent checkmates you, you lose. It's that simple.
Sometimes someone who's just starting to play chess will try to answer checkmate with a check. Nice try, but no dice. Checkmate is immediate and final. In fact, it doesn't even matter if you could checkmate your opponent in the very next move! Checkmate is checkmate, and it ends the game. Period.
It takes a little time to be able to recognise checkmate when it happens. Just remember that its checkmate when all of the following are true:
-> The King is in Check
-> The King can't move to a square where it's not in check
-> The piece giving checks can't Be captured
-> There is no piece to put in the way between the king and the piece giving check.
Here is an example of Checkmate:
Sometimes Nobody Wins
A game of chess doesn't always have a winner and a loser. When no one wins and no one loses, both players draw. In fact, games between grandmasters end in draws just as often as one side wins or loses. There are four ways that a game can end in a draw, so let's go through them one at a time.
Insufficient Material to Deliver Checkmate
Sometimes so many pieces have been captured on both sides that it's simply no longer possible to put the enemy king into checkmate. Since the only way to win the game is through checkmate, if it isn't possible to give checkmate, the game is a draw. This is pretty rare, however, since it has to be absolutely impossible for checkmate to happen.
Stalemate
Suppose there is literally no move you can make. This means that it's your turn to move, but there is simply no square to which you can move any piece. (This isn't common, but it happens more often than you might think.) What do you think happens in that case)
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