How is this a stalemate? Isn't it supposed to be a checkmate??

I have the white king cornered in every direction. He can't move left, right, diagonally, or upwards. So, why is this considered a stalemate and not a checkmate???????

cause is not even check, and he can't move any piece in his turn, so without a moves to do and without a check he can't do anything. in this situation is stalemate

damn that an annoying rule

but u can move other pieces

it is only stalemate if nothing can move

It is a stalemate, not a checkmate. A stalemate is when the king must move, but there are no squares for them to move to.

You aren't putting the king in check.

Also, why did you promote 2 more queens? The more queens you have, the more likely the game will stalemate. You can checkmate with one queen. Why did you not do that?

Instead of Qa7 you could have done Qa8+, King c7, Qb7 mate.

I can agree. Most of the time, one extra queen is helpful, but three is just too many.

You also could've moved the queen left two squares to score a mate instead of moving it down.

This is a joke, of course.

yes

satire, i think

its explaining how the ops logic makes no sense when brought to its logical conclusion

If I had moved the a7 Queen to b8 instead, that would have forced a checkmate, right?

I mean, I made my account 2 years ago but I never really used it

Only starting to properly learn chess now

by the way, Qc1 was just mate

also it's stalemate because the king isn't threatened to get captures. google up the wikipedia article on stalemate.