BurritoYum wrote:
I'm still new to chess, decided to play it safe and get rid of all his pieces. Right when i was about to checkmate him, the game ended in a stalemate. I'm still confused about it (and sad).
You accidentally drew your opponent through a stalemate. Stalemate is a rule where the game ends in a draw if a player has no legal moves on his turn. Here, you unfortunately made a move which took away all of the Black king's available squares but without putting the king in check. Therefore, it is not a checkmate.
https://www.chess.com/terms/stalemate-chess
I'm still new to chess, decided to play it safe and get rid of all his pieces. Right when i was about to checkmate him, the game ended in a stalemate. I'm still confused about it (and sad).