avoiding stalemate

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CoolPineAppleMan wrote:

Avoid stalemate is really easy just don't get 3 queens. You don't need that much material to checkmate.  And you can move your other pieces(like your knight) away to make it easier. 

 

Noted. Really going to analyse this when it accurs. It's a major mistake I made/make as a beginner: Only focussing on having more and better pieces instead of checkmate h opponents fast as possible. My statistics always shows me a lot of missed wins.

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3 ways to avoid stalemate:

1. make sure your opponent always has a pawn or piece to move

2. don't make fun by promoting to unnecessary queens but checkmate when you can.

3. Get a losing position by giving everything away. You are then unlikely to stalemate your opponent and when he does it to you, you will be over the moon! wink.png

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Just use the rolling rook technique, already mentioned here.
If the opponent’s king is on “c” file, put your queen on “f” file, so he won’t be able to cross it.
Next put your other queen on “c” file with a check, and he has to move his king to “b” file.
Next, move your queen on “f” file to “b” file with a check, and his only response will be to move to “a” file.
Your last move will be to move your queen from “c”file to checkmate your opponent on “a” file.

Leave the other pieces alone, don’t waste your time with them. The more you move them, the more chances that you will stalemate the other person. This is actually done best with rook, not queen, there will be less chance of stalemate, but it works too.

For a newbie, this will be your best course, no need to try being creative.
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The good thing with new players is that they will never resign unless they are checkmated. The bad thing with new players is that they think that they need overwhelming advantage in pieces to win. A queen and a rook can easily checkmate a king in an endgame.
Example position would be white king on a3, black king on a1, and white rook on h2. If it is black’s move, then White’s next move should be h1 for a checkmate. If it is white’s move, then his move should simply be g2, followed by g1 checkmate. This position can be easily achieved using the rolling rook technique using only one rook, and substituting the orher rook with your king.
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NovitiateOne wrote:
The good thing with new players is that they will never resign unless they are checkmated. The bad thing with new players is that they think that they need overwhelming advantage in pieces to win. A queen and a rook can easily checkmate a king in an endgame.
Example position would be white king on a3, black king on a1, and white rook on h2. If it is black’s move, then White’s next move should be h1 for a checkmate. If it is white’s move, then his move should simply be g2, followed by g1 checkmate. This position can be easily achieved using the rolling rook technique using only one rook, and substituting the orher rook with your king.

 

As a newby it's interesting what you wrote. But I understand why me ad other new players want to kick off pieces off the board as much as possible. Exspecialy when playing against a stronger player. Its easier to get the overview what is going on. While when many pieces are on the board it's easier to make a mistake by not have seen I placed my king on an attacking position not noticing the bisschop on the other side of the board.

Of course we need to watch carefully but it's taking more time for newbies to have a faster overview on the board.

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just use 2 queens-  move your king out of the way

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3 queens is bad. 2 queens are suffice to checkmate happy.png

Avatar of bluecookies18Aug
Today i played against a friend and well we were in the endgame. I was up a pawn and i was trying to queen my pawn. Only problem-her king was in the way...anyways long story short i stalemated her OOPS-
Avatar of bluecookies18Aug
so like advice-dun drive the kings to the end of the board;-; esp when ur vv careless like mee
Avatar of bluecookies18Aug
ahhh i chld hv won if not for my stalemate:/
Avatar of Chess_Notebook
A way would be to keep checking?
Avatar of assassin3752

don't promote your pawns into queens if you already have a queen and rook. I once saw this game where one guy had a rook and queen and instead of checkmating the guy, he promoted 4 of his pawns into queens and he accidentally stalemated.

Avatar of ChessOfficial2016

Stalemate is it’s your move but every move is illegal and your king is safe.

Avatar of bluecookies18Aug

thank you! i have stopped stalemating alreadyhappy.png

Avatar of orlock20

If you are at a pawn and king end game and you already have a queen, sometimes it's best to promote to a rook.   If you are just slaughtering your opponent and just know the ladder mate, move away any non essential piece that is attacking the squares the opponent's king may go to.

 

Some stalemates are forced. This could be because of where the remaining pawns are to not having enough material to checkmate.

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https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-to-avoid-stalemate-draw#comment-64291663

Avatar of jetoba

A rule of thumb for scholastic tournaments and games between beginners:

K+Q vs K will be a draw about 50% of the time and K+2Q vs K will be a draw about 90% of the time.  In the first one an always-give-check strategy hits the 50 move rule.  In the second one you also have additional stalemate possibilities.

Avatar of Cap_Mukund

First don't just promote to showboat And second if only king is left then give continuous checks until you mate him

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Cap_Mukund wrote:

First don't just promote to showboat And second if only king is left then give continuous checks until you mate him

Continuous checks does avoid stalemate but can lead to 3-fold repetition or the 50-move rule.

 

Learn how to safely trap the opponent without checking (necessary for K+Q vs K) and also learn how to further restrict the opponent while checking (tailor made for K+2Q vs K).