I can never checkmate

The trick about checkmate is to slowly push the enemy King to the side of the chess board or corner of the chess board (usually). The goal is to give them less and less squares to run towards.

My name is Lauren Goodkind and I'm a respected chess coach based in San Francisco.  Sorry to hear that you are both having trouble checkmating.  Last week, I made a short video on how to checkmate with two rooks:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrfmWJwRs9Y

I hope that this helps.  

Like openings, you also have to learn closings. You seem to want to put he opponent into check whenever you can. However, your opponent can normally just move out of the way. Therefore you need a more sophisticated approach involving simultaneous attacks from several pieces.

You can practice this in other pieces earlier in the game. Gang your pieces up against an opponent’s piece you are targeting and learn to form traps or manoeuvres they can’t escape from.

You could try some of the lessons on chess.com and attempting some of the puzzles would also help.

You need to cut off the amount of squares the king can go until their king goes into one of the 4 corners. The king must have a square to move to though otherwise it would be stalemate, #2 comment explained it well.

Thanks Corners usually happens, but the edge of the board sometimes happens too; something like this:

The checkmate pattern lesson here on chess.com is really good. I highly recommend it!

Go on Lichess and go to learn. You will learn how to do all mates. They even have a whole lesson on knight and bishop which is the hardest

"I can never checkmate"

But you already did.

@eric0022 where did u get that from 😭

I have checkmate before ofc but I find it hard

I also am the same. I can have the advantage-more pieces, better pieces, and still get a stalemate. Also I do not understand why a stalemate sometimes...is it the clock runs out? I can still move...they can still move...why a stalemate? I am just moving back and forth and they are just continuously moving away and away...my endgame is ridiculous. Seriously.

if you can't checkmate, then maybe practice checkmating

try and try again

There's several reasons for a stalemate: too few pieces to checkmate one another, 100-move limit, and I think if the King has no place to move is considered a stalemate (or is that just a draw?).

It really helps to do checkmate puzzles here. You begin to recognize checkmates easier, and how to work toward them.

:)

No, stalemate is only one specific type of a draw.

You were confusing stalemate with draw in general in your post, and some of them you got wrong as well, for instance 100 move limit doesn't exist, there is a 50 move rule for a draw. My advice is to google something like: Types of draws in chess.

But as the topic is stalemate, I will explain that one. Stalemate is a situation where the player's king is not in check, it is his move to play, but there are no legal moves for him to play. As he can't continue the game in any way, and there is no checkmate, there is a stalemate on the board.

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