In casual games, clocks are not used but in tournament games, a clock is a must.ĭon’t worry if you don’t have a physical chess clock available to play with your family members or friends in a professional style. This prevents professional chess games to continue for long hours unnecessarily. Now, if you are not familiar with professional chess games, you may think why I’m talking about the time in chess, right?Īctually, all professional chess games are time-controlled. I have discussed this in detail in my article What Happens When Chess Clock Runs Out? (With Rules) which you can check out for further reference. Now when a player runs out of time he/she loses the game.īut if the situation of the board is such the opponent of that player could not checkmate that player had the game continued, then the opponent has no right to win on time.
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But if the opponent cannot checkmate that player by any series of legal moves then in that case the game is drawn. If you checkmate and think you will win the game then in professional games this is not the case always.Ī player loses if he or she runs out of time. A game is drawn if the opponent can’t checkmate after time runs out To know more read my article: Stalemate Vs Checkmate: A Helpful Guide For Beginners! #4. The stalemate means the king is not in check (and can’t be checkmated), also the player has no legal moves left to continue the game further. Read More: What Happens If Only The King Is Left In Chess?Īnother type of draw that you need to know is stalemate. This also occurs when you both have only the king left. (Because your opponent doesn’t have enough pieces to checkmate) Then, in such a case, there are no positions in which your opponent can checkmate you. The condition is called a ‘draw due to insufficient mating material’.įor example, if you only have a king left, while your opponent has a king and bishop.
Now there are many ways a draw can occur in a chess game.īut when neither player can checkmate the other by any series of legal moves then that position is termed as a ‘dead position’. If neither of the two players can checkmate each other then this condition is known as a ‘Draw’ in chess. A game is drawn if no player can checkmate A player getting checkmated loses the gameĪ player who gets checkmated loses and the player who checkmates the opponent wins the game. Nothing, just any move that follows the standard rules of chess is said to be a legal move and that doesn’t follow, is known as an illegal move.įor more information on this, check out my detailed article: What Do You Mean By Illegal Moves In Chess? Along With Examples! #2. You may be wondering what is a legal and illegal move. Checkmate immediately ends the gameĬheckmate immediately ends the game provided the move made to produce it was a legal one. So after having a clear idea about what is checkmate, let’s see the checkmate rules. To know more you can read my in-depth article Can You Checkmate Without Check? (Explained With Examples!) Now you may wonder if it is possible to checkmate without check, then the answer is yes. To understand checkmate see the below example. So if you are in checkmate, then that means your king is in threat and you have no way left to save it from your opponent’s attack. In simple words, checkmate means a player’s king is under attack and there is no way left to get out of it. Is checkmate the only way to win chess?.What happens if you say checkmate and it’s not?.A pinned piece can check as well as checkmate A king can’t checkmate another king directly A game is drawn if the opponent can’t checkmate after the second illegal move
A player getting checkmated loses the game
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