Stalemate on move 12 with all the pieces on the board!

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What is the story behind this game? The moves seem contrived as though they were trying to reach this position?

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Here is a stalemate in 10 moves

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1424841 

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RJ_Cartier wrote:

What is the story behind this game? The moves seem contrived as though they were trying to reach this position?

well I don't think middle game stalemate is achievable with reasonable play 

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Just to be clever, or to manipulate results in a competition?

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Check this blog if you want to know the origins of such quick stalemate games.

Shortest games to stalemate and ‘Mr. Robot’ chess scene

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Wow, that's pretty crazy. Lol. 

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You could just offer a draw you don't have to do this to manipulate the results of the game, it is just cool.

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Book Stalemate.