White: King (on G2), Queen (on F7), Pawn (on A4) and Pawn (on B3)īlack: King (on h8), Pawn (on B6) and Pawn (on A5) If you would like to see an example stalemate, you can set up the board as follows: Stalemate is a condition which results in a formal tie of the game – a draw.īeginners are particularly prone to accidentally putting an opponent in stalemate rather than achieving a checkmate when they have a material advantage because they fail to consider the positioning of their pieces properly. In this condition the opponent’s king is not in check but they cannot make any move on the board without putting themselves into check. To place your opponent’s king in checkmate whilst you keep your own king away from being put into checkmate.
If the king cannot, in a single move, be moved out of check, this is checkmate. The rules of chess do not specify a preferential order as to which to use (as we discussed in our article on whether the king must move if it is in check).Ĭheckmate is the condition under which a player’s king is in check and none of the three options to move the player out of check are available or if executed they reveal another form of check. Otherwise, any of the player’s pieces that can legally move to a square between the king and the attacker may be moved to that square.Ī player may carry out any of these three options in order to move out of check. Obviously, this is impossible if the attacking piece is a knight or if the attacking piece is on a square adjacent to the king.
This does not need to be the king the player may use any piece on the board that can legally take the piece to take the piece. The piece which is attacking the king is taken by another piece.It is worth noting that a king may not castle out of check. The king is moved to a position where the square they land in is not under threat from another piece.However, because of this rule, when a king is in check there is a rule which requires the player with the king in check to move out of check on their next move.Ī king can move out of check in one of three ways: This is precursor of declaring checkmate and an important part of the game as it introduces a new rule.Ī king is said to be in check when it is threatened by another piece such that the piece could take the king on its next move.
Checkmate – īefore we can understand what checkmate is in chess, we need to take a look at the condition of check.
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