HELP! HAVE I BEEN ROBBED?

eval · 2009-04-05T12:31:54-07:00

I'm confused! I thought I had won a game and when the message came back it said "game drawn due to stalemate". My opponent had only his king left and on my last move I cornered him with a pawn in front of him and my king at the side. I also had a bishop and a knight but thought my final

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MickinMD

Sep 27, 2017

#21

eval wrote:

Thanks for trying to explain but this feels unfair, I trapped him fair and square! He moved in to this position, he could have moved elsewhere and so it was his bad. His king was trapped, not mine and so I still feel this should have been a checkmate victory for me.

I thought that stalemate was when the kings were left going round endlessly and so the game would have no conclusion. Didn't my game clonclude when I rendered his king immobile? If its his move and he can't move then surely that makes me the winner?

I'm sure it's a tough rule to spring on you, but in all fairness you should have studied the rules of chess enough to know that a King that is not in check with no legal move is stalemated, not checkmated.

Think of it this way: throughout history there are examples of cities being besieged, like Leningrad in WW2, where the inhabitants could do nothing about the siege yet they were not defeated. A chess player without a legal move is in roughly the same state.

wanmokewan

Sep 27, 2017

#22

@mickinmd You probably should have read the thread. Not only is it 8 and a half years old, the OP acknowledged the stalemate rule.