Crossword clues for stalemate
stalemate
- Stand-off in flat with friend
- For Spooner, masculine condition is a no-win situation
- No-win situation fair, on reflection, in report
- Position on board is grounds for divorce?
- Inglorious deadlock
- Draw old china
- Draw of Spooner's patriarchy
- Deadlock is stagnation to Spooner
- Bring to a standstill
- Tie on a board
- Situation where you can't move
- No-winner, no-loser situation
- Endgame result, sometimes
- Chess outcome
- It's no loss
- No-win situation
- Draw on a board
- Unchangeable situation
- No-win chess outcome
- A situation in which no progress can be made
- Drawing position in chess any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check
- Impasse
- Standoff
- Reason for marital breakup?
- Chess tie
- Chess game ending
- Old partner in deadlock on the board?
- Old friend causing impasse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stalemate \Stale"mate`\ (-m[=a]t`), n. (Chess) The position of the king when he can not move without being placed in check and there is no other piece which can be moved.
Stalemate \Stale"mate`\, v. t. (Chess) To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1765, in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate." Middle English stale is probably from Anglo-French estale "standstill" (see stall (n.2)). A misnomer, because a stale is not a mate. "In England from the 17th c. to the beginning of the 19th c. the player who received stalemate won the game" [OED]. Figurative sense is recorded from 1885. As a verb from 1765; figurative from 1861.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chess English) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw. 2 Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss. vb. 1 (context chess transitive English) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.
WordNet
n. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" [syn: deadlock, dead end, impasse, standstill]
drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check
v. subject to a stalemate
Wikipedia
"Stalemate" is a song by the English band Ben's Brother from their second studio album, Battling Giants (2009). Released as the album's third single on October 26, 2009, the album version of the song features Joss Stone, while the single version features Anastacia. "Stalemate" had its official premiere on BBC Radio 2 on 21 September 2009.
Stalemate is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti recorded in 1977 and originally released on the Nigerian Decca label.
Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move. The rules of chess provide that when stalemate occurs, the game ends as a draw (i.e. having no winner). During the endgame, stalemate is a resource that can enable the player with the inferior position to draw the game rather than lose. In more complex positions, stalemate is much rarer, usually taking the form of a swindle that succeeds only if the superior side is inattentive. Stalemate is also a common theme in endgame studies and other chess problems.
The outcome of a stalemate was standardized as a draw in the 19th century. Before this standardization, its treatment varied widely, including being deemed a win for the stalemating player, a half-win for that player, or a loss for that player; not being permitted; and resulting in the stalemated player missing a turn. Some regional chess variants have not allowed a player to play a stalemating move. In different versions of losing chess, another chess variant, stalemate may or may not be treated as a draw.
In popular usage, the word stalemate refers to a conflict that has reached an impasse, and in which resolution or further action seems highly difficult or unlikely.
A stalemate in chess occurs when the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move.
Stalemate may also refer to:
- Draw (tie) a result in competitions where there is either no winner or multiple winners
- impasse in bargaining
- political stalemate when competing political forces prevent each other from acting
- Stalemate (album), 1977 Fela Kuti recording.
- "Stalemate" (song), 2009 Ben's Brother song, with versions featuring Joss Stone and Anastacia.
- Operation Stalemate, Battle of Peleliu in 1944 in the Pacitic Theater of World War II
Usage examples of "stalemate".
I will kill this Mong they send against me and there will at least be a chance to break this stalemate.
The tracked, armored, motorized forts called barrels were the best thing anyone had yet found for breaking the deadly stalemate of trench warfare.
The war was stalemated, which meant the superior forces of the Dons were slowly grinding the Republicans down.
It was a fight which continued for almost a year, with politics, finances, regional pride, fundamental ideas and the great drives of the space age intermingled, and in the end a stalemate existed between Earth orbit and lunar orbit.
With the fleet outside of Portobelo, the buccaneers and the bullion inside and the Iron Fort in between, there was stalemate, unless they were prepared to carry the bullion over the track back to the Rio Guanche, and meet the fleet there, using the boats that had remained.
Most were sheltering behind trees, just as the Yankees were, which meant that the firefight was settling into a stalemate, but soon the Legion must withdraw to its railbed trench, and Starbuck was determined that the retreat should be made in good order.
Stalemated, Sennett had figured that silence might drive Tuohey or his minions to recontact Robbie on their own.
It brings us to the debacle at Ostia, the stalemate in Crete, the inviolability of every pirate bolt-hole from Gades in Spain to Gaza in Palestina!
A stalemate between the two male beings seemed to have occurred, both beings locking their original grasps in place.
So in the Stormberg district, as at the Modder River, the same humiliating and absurd position of stalemate was established.
Eventually, at the end of our exercises, which may take only a little while, though conceivably they could last until dawn (and in such a stalemated case, the closers would win by default), the matter will be decided.
Stalemates get boring after a while, though, and every so often, somebody felt the need to commit a few atrocities to offend his opponent.
A woman had come out of nowhere to simultaneously stalemate the two greatest chess masters in the world.
Omar's wife wasn't the type to bury herself on an isolated Florida chicken farm, so they were stalemated.
But, paradoxically, the electronic warfare, because of the increase in emissive power, led to a stalemate here, too: lasers powerful enough to pierce the defenses yielded not intelligence but destruction.