Draws in chess
Stockfish 16.1 · runs in your browserPlay Qg6. Black has no legal move and is not in check: stalemate is a draw.
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Best move
Chess can end in a draw by stalemate, a dead position or agreement. Threefold repetition and the fifty-move rule allow a claim; fivefold repetition and seventy-five moves trigger an automatic draw, with checkmate taking precedence on the last move.
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Repeated positions require the same player to move and the same legal possibilities, including castling and en passant rights.
A fifty-move claim requires no pawn move or capture in the relevant fifty moves by each player; it is not the automatic seventy-five-move rule.
Insufficient material
King against king is a dead position: neither player can checkmate by any legal sequence. Dead positions are drawn immediately; they are not stalemate.
Rules and examples
The board positions are original teaching examples. Rule references and further practice are linked below.
Rules: FIDE Laws of Chess, effective 1 January 2023. https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012023
Rule replay: python-chess 1.11.2 (GPL-3.0-or-later). The shared browser engine retains its Stockfish GPL-3.0 notice. No engine score is claimed by these demonstrations.
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7k/5K2/8/6Q1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
7k/5K2/6Q1/8/8/8/8/8 b - - 1 1
- Qg6Black has no legal move and is not in check: stalemate is a draw.
Black has no legal move and is not in check: stalemate is a draw.
Original teaching example replayed with python-chess 1.11.2, 2026-10-18.
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