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What is stalemate?
A player is stalemated when he has no legal moves
that he can make and he is not in check. (If he was in check it would
be checkmate).
Here are a few diagrams where black is stalemated:
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The white Queen is controlling the 3 squares the Black King has
access to, so if it is black's move, this is stalemate, and the game
is a draw.
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As shown by the arrows, the white pieces are controlling all the
possible escape squares of the King, also the black pawns cannot
move. This is therefore stalemate.
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Stalemate arises when a player's turn comes, he is not in check and
he has no legal move. Stalemates results in the game being a draw.
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