- published: 15 Mar 2016
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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 moves. A stalemate ends the game in a draw (i.e. having no winner). Stalemate is covered in the rules of chess.
During the endgame, stalemate is a resource that can enable the player with the inferior position to draw the game. In more complicated 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 suicide chess, another chess variant, stalemate may or may not be treated as a draw.
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Perpetual motion is something you have yet to achieve.
Your peers would think they deceive.
In mindset of what you could accomplish,
the luster of hope is a far wish.
For what we could grab, brought down by grace,
everything now in the wrong place.
Ignorance, selfishness, jealousy but who engulfed this stupidity.
When your ears can hear and you eyes can see
What you did to my joy is nothing short of rape,
perpetual motion of stalemate
Then I see you in your extremities
What you did to my joy is nothing short of rape,
perpetual motion of stalemate
Perceive to yourself all must be true.
Allow no one against to influence you.
A shell without joy remains a shell.
When will be the time when your love will prevail.
Rise up and resurrect the dream, as simple as can be
but still they scheme to fill your world with the discontent,
time to relent wasted time spent.
Now's the time to rise up (4x)
Be what you want to be,
break the powerless authority in my seniority,
for what I say to you to thy self be true, time to break through.
In this sickness for what you call a paradigm,
within your own self but what you can't find.
All the things you've done to my joy is nothing short of rape.
A perpetual stalemate.