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Subj:
Stalemate
Date: 12/25/01 1:52:36 PM
Mountain Standard Time
From: Erwin
(Mexico)
To:
service@chess-poster.com
Hello, my name is
Erwin, the reason I'm writing this letter is that there is a
rule or tactic which is very confusing to me and is named
Stalemate. It happens when a player does not have any legal move
but he is not either in check. The part where says legal,
what does it mean exactly?
Sincerely I hope
you remove this doubt from me, I'm leaving my e-mail:
erwin@******
Thank you.
Respectfully, Erwin
chess-poster.com
Dear
Erwin,
When a player has no legal move available due
to a lack of pieces, or being immobilized or blocked, or that in
his next move he is forced to expose his King to check, it is a
Stalemate and the game is declared a Draw.
As an example, on
graphic 1 below, the white King has just moved from f1 to
e1 forced by the black Bishop attack.
Next, on graphic 2, the black King decides to move from b3
to c2:
Such black King's move causes the Stalemate rule since the white
King does not have the use of any legal move, therefore
the game is a Draw (3):
As you can see, the white
Pawns have no play since they are blocked, white King cannot
move to his right without being attacked by the black Bishop,
nor to the left or diagonal left squares because they are
controlled by the black King neither ahead as the black Pawn on
f3 prevents it.
Thank you for visiting
us.
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