Why am I drawing by stalemate when I clearly won?

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Kevkev124
Please help
David

If you could post a link to the game, that would save people having to trawl through your complete game archive looking for it.

If you're talking about https://www.chess.com/game/live/47532645739, you haven't left your opponent's king any valid moves. That's why it's a stalemate even though you are clearly ahead on material.

chassedylan

Yeah, its happened to me 4 times today when I had 2 queens, 2 rooks, 2 pawns, a knight, and my king- my opponent only had his king. Ridiculous

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David

His king isn’t in check and can’t move anywhere without going into check, so that’s stalemate. When you have such an overwhelming material advantage, it’s one of things you have to be most careful about. You’ve got plenty of time to think about it.

Lagomorph

It is so funny when people use the term "clearly won", when they have clearly drawn the game.

Punza747

Sorry