White answers with K- R sq and is stalemate unless White lets the Kt's file free again.
R-Q8ch, B-Kt1, and Black is stalemateunless the Rook leaves the eighth Rank.
The success of his efforts is attested by the continued functioning of a National Government at Chungking, the resistance and unification of China, which Chiang has come to symbolize, and the stalemate of Japan.
Only, therefore, by making desperate sacrifices to release his partner from checkmate can the non-checkmated one hope to save the game, except his adversaries should stalemate him, when it is drawn.
But it should be borne in mind that if in doing this stalemate is given, the game is drawn.
Also, as shown in the following Example, a Bishop can stalemate a Knight; a compliment which the Knight is unable to return.
White with the two Knights can onlystalemate the King, unless Black has a Pawn which can be moved.
Presently, if the Russians succeed in driving the Germans back to German soil, there will be another trench stalemate there.
The military situation is this: a trench stalematein France.
Black's King is stalemate so that any check with the Knight would settle him.
A favorite trick with composers is to provide a stalemate which they relieve by obstructing the way of one of the pieces involved in the stalemate.
R-d4 and if White queens the Pawn he gives check on C4 forcing Qxc4 which would stalemate the King.
White must now be very careful to avoid a stalemate which would result if he deprived the King of all mobility without attacking him at the same time.
White does not promote the Pawn to a Queen but to a Rook, avoiding the stalemate and threatening mate on a8.
Possibly their number had been increased during the stalemate period from September 29th to October 4th.
In that area where for four years the French and the Germans had stared across No Man's Land at each other, the reasons for the enforced stalemate were almost as obvious as those for the truce between the whale and the elephant.
The Japanese forces retreating to Rabaul included the defenders of Cape Merkus, where a stalemate had prevailed after the limited American attack on 16 January had sent Komori's troops reeling back beyond the airstrip.
A stalemate ensued, as Seabees from Company C, 17th Marines, built a corduroy road through the damp flat behind the Yellow Beaches so that tanks could move forward to punch through the defenses of Suicide Creek.
The obvious stalemate which marked the situation during the first half of the fourth year of the war imposed upon the belligerents a reconsideration of the political and military means of bringing it to an end.
The truth was that during a seeming stalemate the Germans made ample provision for holding their lines in the West while they prepared and dealt a staggering blow at their formidable foe in the East.
This success, coupled with the stalemate along the rest of the front, suggested to Joffre a change of strategy.
Neither side had yet reconciled itself to or perhaps conceived of such a stalemate to their strategy.
She knew when she opened fire that these were the stakes in the game; and we are bound to support France and Russia until they are won or lost, unless a stalemate reduces the whole method of warfare to absurdity.
Yet this belief in stalemate in essence still postulated an ultimate Southern victory, for the function of the Confederacy was, after all, to resist until its independence was recognized.
It was an affair to rejoice the heart of Israel Putnam or Colonel Mosby, and its success was a new contribution in tactics to stalemate warfare which seemed to have exhausted every possible invention and novelty.
One could imagine how the German staff had scattered such pieces along the line when in stalemate warfare any kind of gun that had a barrel and could discharge a shell would add to the volume of gunfire.
Along the Italian front the summer had developed something of the same kind of stalemate that had existed in France.
Here the British after the long winter's stalemate in the mud, where they stuck when the exhausted Germans could press no farther, took the offensive, with the sap of spring rising in their veins.
Every mile of it was located by the struggle of guns and rifles and men coming to a stalemate of effort, when both dug into the earth and neither could budge the other.
