why is stalemate a thing
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Can somebody please give me a logical reason that stalemate is a rule. If the point of chess is to capture the enemy king then why would the king being forced to move somewhere where he gets captured be a draw?? It honestly makes no sense to me. And this is coming from someone who, as a big flagger in bullet, greatly benefits from this rule. Let me also say it seems like moving the king into check shouldnt be an illegal move but rather just a terrible blunder.
Jan 25, 2023
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1. It's been a rule for a long time, changing it would create quite a lot of confusion
2. The possibility of stalemate has led to some very interesting games, where a player can sacrifice pieces in what would be a losing position without a stalemate, in order to achieve stalemate.
Jan 25, 2023
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tistime wrote:
Can somebody please give me a logical reason that stalemate is a rule. If the point of chess is to capture the enemy king then why would the king being forced to move somewhere where he gets captured be a draw?? It honestly makes no sense to me. And this is coming from someone who, as a big flagger in bullet, greatly benefits from this rule. Let me also say it seems like moving the king into check shouldnt be an illegal move but rather just a terrible blunder.
Stalemate is a requirement of the rule that a move by a player can never expose their own king to check. How that impacts the result, has changed over the years.
There have been times where the stalemating player loses the game, the stalemating player wins the game, or the game is a draw. The latter case makes the most sense to me.