You have mate coming in two moves, and it's White to move as it says on the diagram? The computer says to take a stale-mate? Are these the facts, or is it Black to move next on the diagram?
don't always trust the computer analysis...
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tryst wrote:
You have mate coming in two moves, and it's White to move as it says on the diagram? The computer says to take a stale-mate? Are these the facts, or is it Black to move next on the diagram?
I just moved to c6 to prevent stale mate. The computer told me I should have taken the black pawn. Now black will queen, but after me checkmating black by queening first.
So in the diagram it's Black's move?
c6 does lose
I suspect your blunder came on the previous moves - to allow your opponent the chance of a stalemate - and no, you don't promote your pawn with mate, because your oppo promotes with check and you lose 
tryst wrote:
So in the diagram it's Black's move?
Right.
smileative wrote:
I suspect your blunder came on the previous moves - to allow your opponent the chance of a stalemate - and no, you don't promote your pawn with mate, because your oppo promotes with check and you lose
He went for a2, which was a mistake, instead of taking my pawn and promoting and checking at the same time.
c6 is a blunder because axb2 wins for black.
Simple, really. What the computer is telling you (correctly) is that the best move for you is bxa3 with a draw. Everything else loses.
(-Mat15) BLUNDER - Bad news! Things were even and then suddenly you're faced with checkmate. You could have kept it even with 56. bxa3