Moved King into Stalemate

Strange game today, I was checked so moved my king into a stalemate position! I had only my king remaining, my opponent was unable to check or checkmate me or move a piece that would permit me to move. I did not know this was possible.

Regs,

Tim

I hadn't known that was possible, either, until last month when I came across an extraordinary position in the book "Basic Endgame Strategy: Kings, Pawns, & Minor Pieces" (Bill Robertie, 1998, New York, NY: Cardoza Publishing). In one puzzle, White has a hopelessly lost endgame yet he could still draw by walking his king into his own box-like cluster of pawns that couldn't advance due to Black's opposing pawns, then by closing the door behind him by advancing a pawn behind him. Even though Black queens a pawn immediately before White "closes the door," it would take one move for Black to move his new queen over to that box, then another move to sacrifice that queen by capturing a pawn of that box, just so White can't die by self-suffocation! That was an extraordinary save I would never have noticed in a game unless I already knew it were possible. (By the way, if you look up that book, there's a typo in the diagram: White's h pawn is missing from the diagram. Fortunately the copy of the book I saw was a library book where somebody had drawn in the missing pawn.)

P.S.--Can you post your game? I would like to see it, and I think other people would, too.

Hi Sorry I can post the game as it was played on Chessfriends

here is a stalemate example from one of my games,

k-scope,

I know such stalemate situations well, but what I find interesting are the rare cases where a king is able to stalemate himself and where there is nothing the opposition can do about it. It's basically a way to commit suicide without being checkmated. Your example is sort of a deferred way of doing that, but it's not clear from your starting position if White could have prevented that earlier. I'll post that chess puzzle I mentioned in a couple days. Hopefully that book hasn't been checked out of the library.

yes, it is interesting although I can't see how the example you have shown is stalemate as either player can make  at least 10-15 moves!

with the passed c-pawn white will win unless black can find a way to draw.

I admit it is only stalemate if white takes the R, but if he doesnt black will draw by the 50-move rule.