stalemate or draw

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to playing chess. I wanted to ask all the experienced chess players out there for advice. I played 2 games today where I clearly checkmated my opponent. However, the system just ended in a draw and even allowed the opponent to keep moving the remaining pawn. Is there a rule that I am unaware of? Please advise. I've attached a screenshot of the final move. Thanks 

In your last two games, the game was drawn by stalemate. This means your opponent did not have any legal moves. 

https://chess.com/terms/stalemate-chess

Dear Droliver

In the screenshot you have shared, it is stalemate as the king is not currently in check, but if he moves the king it will be in check, and there are no other pieces to be moved

You know the rule about how a king can't move into check, right?  Well if your opponent has no legal moves, but isn't in check, the game ends in a special kind of draw called stalemate.  I'm sure there's an article that explains it.  Let me find it for you....

OOPS, I do believe I'm a day late and a dollar short again...

I understand now. Let me know if my understanding is correct. Checkmate is when the king is being attacked but nowhere else to move. So in order to win in the future, I need to still allow my opponent to make another move then I checkmate? 

You are almost getting it but not quite. Stalemate is the opponent has no legal moves (you can't move your king into check). Checkmate is when the opponent is in check, with no way to move out of check or block the check

Sorry to sound stupid but that was mind-blowing as my previous understanding of checkmate was wrong  Thank you all so much. 

I should tell my friend too as we were both confused ... 

Sure, that's pretty much it.  Folks often like to leave their opponent with a pawn or two just so stalemate doesn't arise.  It's also why promoting all your pawns is rarely a good idea; chances of stumbling into a stalemate are increased when several queens are on the board.

For example, in your pictured example, just before your last move, bxa3, the king had no legal moves, since every possible move by the king was check. By capturing that pawn, that removed any other possible legal move.

When the king has no legal moves an is not in check, you should be looking for a mate and not capturing other material. Rf3 instead of capturing would have mated your opponent.

Great. I liked to have multiple queens before  so now I know. 

well i hope u understand with this see below 

EXAMPLE OF A DRAW POSITION

this is called draw when there is no piece and only king king left or knight and knight with kings or bishops and bishops with king 

EXAMPLE OF A STALEMATE POSITION

Now in this position u can see that if u move ur king anywhere u will get check .. so u should think are there any legal square for my kings the answer is no because there are no legal square and the queen is ruling all the squares on which u are suppose to move your king so this is know as stalemate and this is called draw 

Hope so u understand

 Thanks 

ok this is actually a pretty wholesome forum

So when he moved his black pawn from a4 to a3, instead of capturing it, I should have moved my queen to h5 then that will be a checkmate. 

Qh5 is not a checkmate because the king can move to g3 but you're getting the hang of it!

Qh5+ Kg3 Rf3# or faster Rf3# immediately. When you have such a large material advantage you should go after the king. You only need a few pieces to give checkmate if your opponent has nothing. No need to take all their pieces, promote 5 pawns to queen's or whatever. 

yes, leave the queen at g5 but move the bishop to g2 to checkmate

You have to always give check to avoid a stalemate.