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Chess.com, why did whoever hold the chess rule classify stalemate as a draw?
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Jul 5, 2023
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You're certainly not the first to question it, but it's been this way since the 13th century Italian rule was adopted worldwide.
If you need to know why and who then you've got 800 years of history to get through. You'll never get a complete answer but you will be able to write a book on the subject by the time you've finished reading all the evidence. Perhaps someone has already written that book.
Jul 5, 2023
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There is an entire discussion on this matter. My comments are at the very end.
MOST STUPID RULE : STALEMATE - Chess Forums - Chess.com
long_quach wrote:
To answer your question.
It is an evolution of "etiquette".
1. You have to say "check", so the King cannot be killed surreptitiously.
2. The King cannot move into check by accident.
3. In the extension of these rules, you have to check mate a king in order to win.
Basically stalemate means the King cannot move into check by force.
This is by far the answer that convinced me the most, ty.
Jul 6, 2023
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To me, this makes no sense to be a win for black. He can't even promote the pawn, let alone checkmate the king.
Basically many endgames would be simpler. One pawn down would be a much bigger deal, and it would make the game of chess simpler. All because some person wasn't careful in a completely winning position.
In the end, the goal of the game is to checkmate the king, that is the winning condition. Sure people resign their games, but they do it in order not to wait for a long time to be checkmated in the end.
And there are draws when there can't be no checkmate - 50 moves rule (no checkmate in a reasonable time), stalemate (no legal moves, so the game can't continue, AKA no checkmate either), threefold repetition (no checkmate - nobody wants to keep repeating till one of us dies on the board), insufficient material (there is no checkmate either).
Basically - no checkmate possible = no win, and that includes stalemate.
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Chess, why did whoever hold the chess rule classify stalemate as a draw? Hello everyone, Whoever put the chess rules, why did they classify stalemate as a "draw" please give me one reason to classify it so, are we just gonna follow the rules because it is just put like that? After all, stalemate is a "mate" where where ever the king will go, he will just die
, same thing with checkmate except that he is just checked in his position I know it would be a bit easier to stalemate in endgames, but still making it a draw dosen't make any sense at all. tyvm.