Opponent was moving King back and forth from same squares, but I was bring out my knight and keeping King in various checks. Do players try to elicit stalemate by repetitive movement of their piece? Mine were all over the board.
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Players often try to get stalemate if they have a lone king. It's easy for the opponent to lose track of the other king's flight squares.
You could of checkmated him instead of moving your horsie. It’s just bad play on your part. Your opponent deserves the draw I’m afraid.
Dec 30, 2020
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There is no check in this position and white has no legal moves. So it is stalemate.
Dec 30, 2020
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To the HarbingerOfDoom - Agreed that my end game is embarrassingly bad. To nklristic - that explains it...thanks!
Just be sure to learn from it. Good luck in your future games
Dec 31, 2020
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It looks like the confusion stems from the fact that your Knight move did not affect the King's available squares.
However, I'm assuming you must have put them in check on the previous turn, and it looks like they were smart enough to move to c3, where the King is completely trapped. One solution is to move one of your Rooks to give him some air, but in this case, it turns out Qb4 would have been checkmate.
How can this be a stalemate?