Kd8! (rightmost diagram) Black is three pieces ahead, but if White is allowed to take the bishop, the two knights are insufficient to force checkmate. Rxb6+ Nxb6+ Moving the king is actually a better try, but the resulting endgame of two knights and a bishop against a rook is a well-established theoretical draw. Not 5.Rxb2+? Bxb2 6.Nc4+ Kb5 7.Nxb2 Bh5! trapping White's knight. Rh6+ Bd6 3.Kb5 4.Rxb6+ Kxb6 5.Nxc4+ also leads to a drawn endgame. White saves a draw with 1.Ne5+! Black wins after 1.Nb4+? Kb5! or 1.Qe8+? Bxe8 2.Ne5+ Kb5! 3.Rxb2+ Nb3. An example is the "White to Play and Draw" study at right, composed by the American master Frederick Rhine and published in 2006. Stalemate is a frequent theme in endgame studies and other chess compositions. Incredibly, the possibility of stalemate allows White, three pieces down, to draw. Now the players agreed to a draw, since 84.Kxb3 or 84.Rxb3 is stalemate, as is 84.Ra8 85.Rxc3+! Kxc3.īlack could still have won the game until his critical mistake on move 82. Rc4 Kd3ħ9.Rd3 80.Rxd3+! leaves Black with either insufficient material to win after 80.Nxd3 81.Kxa2 or a standard fortress in a corner draw after 80.Kxd3.Ĩ0. This would normally be a decisive material advantage, but Black could find no way to make progress because of various stalemate resources available to White. In the game Elijah Williams– Daniel Harrwitz (see first diagram), Black was up a knight and a pawn in an endgame. Position after 84.Rb3! If Black takes the rook either way, the result is stalemate. Stalemate is also sometimes used incorrectly to refer to all draws in chess.
In popular usage, the word stalemate refers to a conflict that has reached an impasse, where resolution or further action seems highly difficult or unlikely. In losing chess, another chess variant, stalemate is typically treated as a win for the stalemated player. Some regional chess variants do not allow a player to play a stalemating move. 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. The outcome of a stalemate was standardized as a draw in the 19th century. Stalemate is also a common theme in endgame studies and other chess problems. In more complex positions, stalemate is much rarer, usually taking the form of a swindle that succeeds only if the superior side is inattentive. During the endgame, stalemate is a resource that can enable the player with the inferior position to draw the game rather than lose. Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check and has no legal move. Black is not currently in check and has no legal move since every square to which the king might move is under attack by White. The important question is why did China make these military moves that violated all the bilateral agreements aimed at maintaining peace and tranquility between the two countries.Black to move is stalemated. Eventually, India made a matching troop build-up with soldiers from the two sides locked in eyeball-to-eyeball situations in several sub-sectors.
Only a clear-headed analysis of the goings-on in eastern Ladakh over the past year, and a direct and uncomplicated diagnosis for the road ahead that India must traverse to meet the challenge, will serve the memories of our slain soldiers and the interests of the nation.Ĭhina’s induction of a large numbers of troops, variously estimated at between 50,000 and 60,000, into the western sector of the India-China boundary in April and early May 2020, did catch India by surprise. These past 365 days have allowed us in India to reflect on China’s moves and motivations, analyse Chinese actions and reactions, think through how India can rise to the challenge and recommend what we need to do in both the short term as well as the longer term. It has been a year since 20 Indian soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice at Galwan, East Ladakh, to safeguard India’s territorial integrity from Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops who had massed in that geography since early May 2020.
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