SPECIAL MOVES
STALEMATE Stalemate is where the player TO MOVE has no legal moves left. Here White is winning easily but if he plays 1.Qc7?? Black’s King is stalemated.
In this position, any move by the black King would put his King in check.
Stalemate crops up all the time in games between beginners through simply overlooking that the possibility exists.
Stalemate means that the game ends in a draw. ½–½ Instead 1.Qb7# would have been CHECKMATE, a big difference.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO CHESS - NEWCOMERS
