Stalemate

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rphaddad

Is it stalemate if one players moves any piece to and from the same position in 3 consecutive moves?

TadDude
rphaddad wrote:

Is it stalemate if one players moves any piece to and from the same position in 3 consecutive moves?


See here http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess.html

Draws

Occasionally chess games do not end with a winner, but with a draw. There are 5 reasons why a chess game may end in a draw:

  1. The position reaches a stalemate where it is one player’s turn to move, but his king is NOT in check and yet he does not have another legal move
  2. The players may simply agree to a draw and stop playing
  3. There are not enough pieces on the board to force a checkmate (example: a king and a bishop vs. a king)
  4. A player declares a draw if the same exact position is repeated three times (though not necessarily three times in a row)
  5. Fifty consecutive moves have been played where neither player has moved a pawn or captured a piece.
Gert-Jan

It sounds more like draw by repetition.But you have to check the rules about that.
Stalemate is that the king cannot move without putting himself in check and no other piece can move. When a player cannot make a legal move and isn't in check then it is stalemate.

this diagram is an example.It is white's turn but he cannot make a legal move.-> stalemate.1/2-1/2

goldendog

Think about it: If all it took for a draw was for one player to shuffle a piece back and forth a few times, we'd have complete patzers drawing GMs.

All the time.

Chess would be a terrible game.