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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.
- Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss.
Verb
- (chess, transitive) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.
Exempel
- The North Korean nuclear issue, stalemated for the past three years, is now back in play again - not before time.
- If the player must move, but cannot move without causing his king to be in check, then a stalemate is declared.
- The US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan has reached a stalemate.
- She stalemated her opponent.
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