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Stalemate vs checkmate6/10/2023 75 points-Remember the lesson for when you are on the "losing" side to see if you can keep your opportunites open for your opponent to make a mistake and stalemate you! A common trick you can sometimes set up is to sacrifice your rook by checking your opponent's king (square adjacent to the monarch) assuming you've been able to dupe your opponent-If the king takes your rook, there's a stalemate, and if you've really set it up well, your opponent will notice this and not take your rook and step the king elsewhere, but you check him again with the rook, and if your opponent's king can't get to safety, it will eventually become a draw by repetition of position. If it makes you feel any better, throughout the history of chess, a stalemate wasn't always considered a half-point each-There was a point in time where you would have been awarded. With the material advantage you had, you should go for checkmate sooner. The goal isn’t to capture all the opponents pieces, and the more pieces you capture, the closer to stalemate you are getting. You indeed were robbed, but you were the robber, too. You had the win right in your grasp, but you made a move that didn’t do anything toward the goal of checkmating the king. With the last move being the dark-squared bishop to g5, this did not further the goal of attacking the king nor taking away any more squares, either. All you have to do is find a square where the knight attacks the king, and Nb6 checkmate should jump out at you! Game Won! The queen has the e7 and d6 squares already covered. The rook on c3, queen and light squared bishop are taking away the eight squares around the king. If you aren’t even attacking the king, it is just a draw. That’s the difference between checkmate and stalemate. In your vast material advantage, you don’t have a single piece that is attacking the king. At a very basic level, to checkmate means that you are in fact attacking the king.
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