OK, so that's not a stalemate. A stalemate is a situation in which one of the players has no legal moves (but isn't in check, which would be checkmate). It's a

OK, so that's not a stalemate. A stalemate is a situation in which one of the players has no legal moves (but isn't in check, which would be checkmate). It's a typical mistake to equate chess draws with a stalemate, possibly due to the broader, idiomatic meaning of "stalemate" in common speech.