Wait, I think I see the issue. Is this because every tile around him would've resulted in check?
Stalemate how?
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Aug 29, 2023
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It's relatively easy to train yourself to check that your opponent has a legal move if you're not putting them in Check but it's something players don't do up to 1000 rating.
This is stalemate since your opponent does not have any place to move without his king getting check
CraigIreland wrote:
It's relatively easy to train yourself to check that your opponent has a legal move if you're not putting them in Check but it's something players don't do up to 1000 rating.
Yeah, I learned from this and haven't made the same mistake since. I only just recently started getting back into chess and forgot this rule. I'm improving slowly but surely, thanks guys!
Hey guys,
So I just played a game I was decisively winning, the game was for all intents and purposes over. I still had plenty of legal moves open to me and all he had left was a king. Is there some rule or set of conditions I as a novice player might not be aware of that caused chess.com to suddenly declare this a stalemate? There is no way he could have possibly won and I had all the tools I needed to win, I still had more than enough time too. So uh... what?
The attached image shows the board state when chess.com declared a stalemate.