Blundered a stalemate AGAIN, someone kill me

Could I get some advice on how to avoid this happening? EDIT: apologies, posted the wrong game, I meant this one

This is not a stalemate, it's a win...

OOOOOOPS, wrong one.

I posted the wrong game. FFS, I should stop playing and sleep. My brain is fried

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

I did it again. I should go to bed. It's 2am and I've got the late night blunders.

Yeah that may be part of it. Playing while fried is basically why I dropped 120 points in rapid all of a sudden lol.
I guess that when going for a mating attack, always be extra careful to make sure the king has a square to go to.
Also, I know this is not directly related, but make sure to keep paying attention to hanging material (on both sides). In the first game, you are doing great for the most part, but there are a couple of places you/your opponent left something hanging and it was missed. Also, curiously enough, you notice that their queen could be pinned but it could have been pinned much earlier than that.

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don't worry you will get better at not stalemating with time

and practice

We all fall for stalemate

I once had a rook and a knight vs a king and i accidentally stalemated

But don't have a fatalistic attitude!

In the first game when you are up that much material, just make sure all your moves are checks in general. In the second game, don't use your king to mate until your opponent's king only has one legal move to make every turn

Thanks, guys.

Players will always continue to stalemate one another because stalemate is so close to checkmate. This particular stalemate pattern though is the first one every player should learn (to avoid) as it is by far the most common stalemate. Always trap an edged king by playing your queen to the row besides it (here the 2nd row). That keeps the king trapped for the kill while it retains some wiggling room.

When you are overwhelmingly winning (when you won your opponent's queen on move 35 in the first game, and move 39 in the second game) that was the time to slow down, and look for a checkmate. Banging out moves super fast, taking random pawns - what is the point of that?

First game: you had mate in 1 immediately on move 36, then again on 37 and again on 38. You even had mate in 1 on the last move, when you decided to stalemate instead.

Second game: you had mate in-1 on move 42. What did you do instead? Played on autopilot. Just look at all the random and completely pointless moves that you made between move 42 and 54.

Later is turns out that you don't know how to mate with a queen. I seriously recommend that you learn it. It is easy.

Oooooooops. Thanks for pointing that stuff out.

I definitely went on autopilot, didn't know what to do, and then fired off moves hoping to at least clean up the board so I had room to move around.

I'll go find a tutorial on how to checkmate with a queen.

ok where is ur house xD

After move 36 don't try to capture pieces anymore. Go for checkmate. It's nearly impossible to stalemate someone when they have a lot of pieces.

Ugh, I really blundered hard there didn't I? LOL

Nah, it's not so bad, it's an idea everyone learns at some point. Before that it's normal to capture all the pieces and accidentally stalemate.

Keep in mind that stalemates only occur under time pressure. Anyone stalemating with an hour on the clock and an overwhelming position is a hopeless loser.

The number one advice is therefore to play fast enough to avoid blitz scenarios. With seconds on the clock anyone may land in the occasional stalemate. Or miss the available checkmates out of fear to cause a stalemate which is just as bad.