Hey I have a great idea-let's call this debate a tie stalemate and move on. Before chess.com has to buy a new server, causing membership rates to rise and an increase in annoying ads too.
Fixed.
Fixed, as in neutered. That's what the @Monster really needs.
Hey I have a great idea-let's call this debate a tie and move on. Before chess.com has to buy a new server, causing membership rates to rise and an increase in annoying ads too.
A tie... or a stalemate!
Ties need to be abolished...
Cravats, on the other hand....
You don't wear a cravat on either hand. Sheesh...buncha' peasants 'round 'ere.
Ties need to be abolished...
Why do you hate Thailand's people?
Hate needs to be abolished...
Abolishment needs to be abolished...
Polish your Polish prose. Or get a better spell-checker.
Hasn't this thread gone cold?
Hasn't this thread gone cold?
Threads never get cold, until someone kills them.
Yereslov wrote:
Argonaut13 wrote:
Hasn't this thread gone cold?
Threads never get cold, until someone kills them.
Which happens by the admin I take it? :P
Yereslov wrote:
Argonaut13 wrote:
Hasn't this thread gone cold?
Threads never get cold, until someone kills them.
Which happens by the admin I take it? :P
That never happens.
Cleverly living a quiet life as a Crimson Rosella, my secret identity is actually that of a Chess.com Topic known as "Stalemate Needs to Be Abolished".
After much mature contemplation and discussion with my (imaginary) loved ones, I've decided that I no longer wish to continue living this secret life.
A few years ago, a certain lickspittle, gutless, toadying, reactionary, Conservative Australian Federal Government contemptuosly dismissed the democratic decisions of two Australian Territories and overturned lawful Euthanasia in both the ACT and the Northern Territory.
(Note: Euthanasia from the Greek for 'a good death').
As an act of mercy and good manners, I humbly and hopefully beseech the Administrators of Chess.com to act, in their wisdom and compassion, and please, please put an end to this intolerable pathetic life "Stalemate Needs To Be Abolished".
Please...!
How can something be abolished that happens naturally within the game?
Too many posts to read. I will settle this right now---Play checkers, if you cant move you lose.
If a player cant make a legal move, his clock should be left to run out. (this is the logical conclusion when you take all the other rules into consideration) He cornered himself, commited suicide, he doesnt get a free pass. I cant choose to pass my turn at other times.
All too often in blitz with 10 seconds left and about to queen some disaster happens where the guy cant move and he is dominated. Logical things to do: lets give him 1/2 a point ??
To all the fools who want to comment: "your saying this because you drew a blitz game" of course it is you fool. But more to the point, also because stalemate is not a logical rule.
Please also do not say it is my fault that I let it happen. It is you who cant move, that is your fault. I can still move.
Kweh!
So this thread persists still. But stalemate is here to stay. In real life and on the real battlefields, sometimes stalemates occur. So it is only right and proper that in the classical game of chess we have the occasional impasse, or stalemate -- because chess is a microcosm of real battle, or of life itself.
The analogy doesn't work. Although the metaphor "stalemate" was borrowed from chess, it means something very different. When people say a real battle is a stalemate, they do not mean that one side is about to be annihilated and there is nothing they can do about it. When they say stalemate, they mean a position has been reached where neither side can make progress. This type of impasse exists in chess and usually results in an agreed draw, but we don't call it stalemate.
Nigel Short hit it on the head when he said, that all stalemate accomplishes is make a very drawish game even more drawish.
In the event of a stalemate in chess, neither side can make progress. So the analogy still works.