Why am I drawing by stalemate when I clearly won?

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Avatar of Kevkev124
Please help
Avatar of David

If you could post a link to the game, that would save people having to trawl through your complete game archive looking for it.

If you're talking about https://www.chess.com/game/live/47532645739, you haven't left your opponent's king any valid moves. That's why it's a stalemate even though you are clearly ahead on material.

Avatar of chassedylan

Yeah, its happened to me 4 times today when I had 2 queens, 2 rooks, 2 pawns, a knight, and my king- my opponent only had his king. Ridiculous

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Avatar of David

His king isn’t in check and can’t move anywhere without going into check, so that’s stalemate. When you have such an overwhelming material advantage, it’s one of things you have to be most careful about. You’ve got plenty of time to think about it.

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It is so funny when people use the term "clearly won", when they have clearly drawn the game.

Avatar of Punza747

Sorry