Stalemate needs to be abolished...

read post #16 and stop your machine gun fire nonsense, before you further embarass yourself.

Resorting to personal insults? Do I have you on the ropes already?

No one's "tacking on" any rules with stalemate.

The three rules of chess still apply.

You can't move into check.

You can't skip your turn.

The player who wins is the one who is attacking a king that can't get out of check.

The stalemated player isn't skipping his turn in the sense that he's foregoing his turn so his opponent can move because the game has ended.

You're the one who's trying to tack on exceptions to the three rules - apparently because you ended up with a draw by stalemate. Get over it already.

Sorry if I didn't read all 500 posts before commenting. Some of us have lives away from this website.

To be perfectly blunt, I'm amazed that you've devoted this much time to a suggestion that will never be implemented. Why don't you start a thread advocating that queens have the power of knights. You're not getting anywhere with this one. And I'd say you're the one embarrassing yourself with this pointless obsession.

People who are stalemated aren't "passing" their moves because the other player would then move. Instead, the game has ended.

Someone who disagrees with you is "sheeple?"

Maybe your solitary advocacy of turning stalemate into a win is due to the idiocy of the idea and the common sense of everyone else.

aargh ! verbal-diarrohea !! I smell supersizing & chicken mcnuggets. 

Hahahahahahaha.

Still smarting after the smackdown you received in the Kasparov vs. Morphy thread? Good grief. You're as bad as Monster with your pointless obsessions. lol

Or was it the Fischer vs. Kasparov thread? You've been outwitted and outargued so many times it's hard to keep track lol

You know, netzach, they have medicine now for those painful monthly cramps you experience. Check in with your gynecologist. He might be able to recommend some lol. Feel better:)

Well give it a rest Andrew. You & nameno's turgid word-spamming is tedious & nobody interested in reading it...

If it were a strict rule someone had to reaed all posts before they posted, it could possibly be that their reading assignment would never give them a window long enough to post anything. Besides, enforcing it would be just as difficult. Could anyone prove for sure due to lag, etc, who was first for sure?

Speaking for everybody? Wasn't it you who accused me of "megalomania" when I said the majority of U.S. citizens wouldn't want Fischer to be given posthumous citizenship? Your contradictory logic - and projection - rears its ugly head again lol.

You're a bore, netzach, though sometimes you're an amusing bore. That's why you're still aces in my deck of cards.

If Monster called his psychiatrist and you called your gynecologist, the world would be a better place, netzach.

Have a good night, netzach. Feel better:)

I am glad you are still here trying to troll us. It brings back memories, memories of things I haven't thought of until.... who cares.

To get to the point, there used to be a saying that only a few could really relate to. It is simply put, "the Russians are coming" . Did they ever use that in Scotland? I am still looking for the evidence that you based your disclaimer on to discredit my "theory" the other day. I noticed you tucked tail and ran....lol. It feels good to use that saying against you....um...both of them...

The Russians started showing up in droves to the US. Did they make it to Scotland yet, to really help you more completely understand their culture that you spent more time than usual studying due to Scotland's world super power stance against it's arch adversary, the Russians?

P.S. Before you try using it as a bu!!$!t basis to discredit my post, we used Russians and Soviets as interchangable terms in the US and often still do, even the Soviet Union is technically gone.

lol....Are you sure maybe they wouldn't need their proctologist to make them feel better? After all, when you are that full of it, the situation will eventually resolve itself and it's got to be painful it would seem.

Stalemate rule is completely based on the logic of chess rules. The object of chess is to place the other player into a checkmate position. It also states that when a player is in checkmate position the game is over. If you have no stalemate rule the player places himself into a checkmate position therefore ending the game without his opponent placing him into checkmate, ergo the opponent has not accomplished the checkmate. If play were allowed to continue there could arise positions where a player places himself in checkmate, but his opponent must now make a move which could force the checkmate to become undone. This would an even more illogical course of action.  

You seem to be forgetting which variant you were playing.

All you have to do if you run afoul of one of them is create a thread decrying the rule as illogical and then berate anyone who doesn't agree. You could even come up with a clever term for them like "sheeple" if you were so inclined.

500?

500?

500!