The legitimacy was described above. The game is designed so that you can’t stop focusing even when you’re in a winning position. Players over the centuries have admired cleverness in the face of overwhelming odds. That’s what it means to turn a losing position into a draw.
For real life war analogies, think of the king escaping through a secret tunnel while his castle is under siege and all his soldiers dying.
The extra challenge stalemate adds can be interesting, I don’t deny it.
It’s just that if a player is in a position where they can’t do anything beside suiciding their king, they’re obviously not winning, and it seems a little bit unfair for the other player to consider the situation is equal and that noone can be designated as the winner.
I’m not sure why it should be considered unfair for a player with a winning position to allow his opponent to escape with a draw by stalemate due to the winning player’s carelessness.
The position where you have a king, queen, and bishop versus a king is totally winning and all it takes is patience and careful moves to win. The only way the lone king is getting a stalemate is due to carelessness on the part of his opponent.
Not in check = not in danger
I understand the reasoning, not the legitimacy.
The legitimacy was described above. The game is designed so that you can’t stop focusing even when you’re in a winning position. Players over the centuries have admired cleverness in the face of overwhelming odds. That’s what it means to turn a losing position into a draw.
For real life war analogies, think of the king escaping through a secret tunnel while his castle is under siege and all his soldiers dying.
The extra challenge stalemate adds can be interesting, I don’t deny it.
It’s just that if a player is in a position where they can’t do anything beside suiciding their king, they’re obviously not winning, and it seems a little bit unfair for the other player to consider the situation is equal and that noone can be designated as the winner.
I’m not sure why it should be considered unfair for a player with a winning position to allow his opponent to escape with a draw by stalemate due to the winning player’s carelessness.
The position where you have a king, queen, and bishop versus a king is totally winning and all it takes is patience and careful moves to win. The only way the lone king is getting a stalemate is due to carelessness on the part of his opponent.
I’ve never understood why you never understood why stalemate is a draw.