And that's what checkmate is about!
He was aware of letting your king a room to move, sufficient to evade stalemate.
How was that not a Stalemate?
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It's not a requirement that there must be preceding checks.
(Think of scholar's mate)
However, giving checks beforehand is very common and is usually the path to the actual checkmate.
Hey,
How was that not a stalemate?:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/79108229970
(Idk in what to put my game Link, I tried everything, nothing works.)
I mean he didn´t check me once and I had only one square. Then a queen and boom, checkmate.