Thanks for the clarification, mate!
and yes, my bad. I meant to say "2 queens" and here's the link for anyone:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/74101929668
Yeah that's extremely frustrating when it happens.
The best way to avoid this, is before each move look at what squares your pieces occupy. If you have a lot of time you can even manually mark the squares by right clicking.
If you're low on time, the best way is to make sure every/most of your moves are checks; as a move that's a check can't be a stalemate. If you have to play a move that isnt a check, like earlier briefly review what squares are occupied by your pieces.
Yeah that's extremely frustrating when it happens.
The best way to avoid this, is before each move look at what squares your pieces occupy. If you have a lot of time you can even manually mark the squares by right clicking.
If you're low on time, the best way is to make sure every/most of your moves are checks; as a move that's a check can't be a stalemate. If you have to play a move that isnt a check, like earlier briefly review what squares are occupied by your pieces.
Good idea, silly me had enough time to play slowly and efficiently but failed.
Thanks for the clarification, mate!
and yes, my bad. I meant to say "2 queens" and here's the link for anyone:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/74101929668
you did say '2 queens'
Thanks for the clarification, mate!
and yes, my bad. I meant to say "2 queens" and here's the link for anyone:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/74101929668
you did say '2 queens'
It was edited after notice 😁
PSA: I did the same bloody mistake again, and the worst part is that I was 3 queens against one single king in the middle, I may now need to restudy mating
Each time you add a queen it increases the risk of stalemate. More than two is overkill. Promoting to rooks helps prevent accidental stalemate if you want more than two power pieces.
Each time you add a queen it increases the risk of stalemate. More than two is overkill. Promoting to rooks helps prevent accidental stalemate if you want more than two power pieces.
"Sometimes less is more" and that is true for real! thanks for that, I didn't know that <3
Each time you add a queen it increases the risk of stalemate. More than two is overkill. Promoting to rooks helps prevent accidental stalemate if you want more than two power pieces.
"Sometimes less is more" and that is true for real! thanks for that, I didn't know that <3
Stalemate is kind of a "hidden resource" for the losing side to play on to evade a loss.
That was. in fact, how you evaded a loss in four such games!
Four out of your nine stalemates came about when you were at the losing side, while the other five occurred when you were winning.
In eight of the those nine stalemates, a diagonal is controlled - and it's often the overlooked point when trying to checkmate the losing side.
Hey, so recently I got in a situation where I had 2 queens and one rook all set up ready to cook the mate; however, and strangely enough, (I'm a beginner in chess, so I'm not sure) I pushed a piece to a position where it suddenly said "Draw by Stalemate" which was rather infuriating to me because I had no idea there would be a chance to stalemate him there, human blunder I guess, and I too still had the wide variety of options to mate him.
TL; DR?
Stalemate was made accidentally, did I take an L against a single king?
Have a wonderful day.