In chess if one side has only a king left, how many moves is he allowed before stalemate?

Question

In chess if one side has only a king left, how many moves is he allowed before stalemate?

Answer 1

You mean before the game is 'drawn'

'Stalemate' means there's no legal moves a King can make on it's turn without moving into check... It's *one* way of drawing a game...

The other ways are (according to the FIDE Laws of Chess):

A 'Dead Position' is when there's no possible way that either opponent can checkmate each other.

Two players can agree to 'Draw'

A game can be declared a 'Draw' if an identical position appears three times on the Chessboard (meaning the board positions of all pieces repeat three different times)

And the official verbiage for you: "The game may be drawn if each player has made at least the last 50 consecutive moves without the movement of any pawn and without any capture."

Which is the relevant one for you... So, if neither you, nor your opponent, can move a pawn or capture a piece in 50 moves, it's a draw.

Answer 2

i've always gone with 11 moves to a stalemate. if no pieces are taken by the king in that time.

Answer 3

Unlimeted. At least until he is surrounded. Or your opponent only has his/her king left.

Answer 4

Unlimited there is no rule I Know of that says otherwise.

Answer 5

Until the opponent moves to a place where the king is not in check but can only move into check.

Answer 6

It'll be a stalemate if the king is not in check but if it moves to any other square it will be in check.

Answer 7

Stalemate is only given to someone for a triple repetition, or if the king cannot move anywhere else on his turn but is safe in the square he is currently sitting.

Answer 8

A stalemate happens when you or your opponent doesn't have any legal moves left but is not in check. The end result is a draw.

What you're asking for must be under what conditions will a regular chess game end in a draw. Under traditional rules, if no capture has been made or no pawn has been moved in the last 50 moves, then the game ends in a draw. A game can also end in a draw if the sames moves have been made three times in a row by both sides. If you and your opponent don't have enough pieces to effect a checkmate, the automatically ends in a draw. Lastly, you can agree to a draw if you and your opponent see that the game will ultimately end in a draw in the long run.

Answer 9

You are thinking of the 50 move rule.

If a guy has only a king left and makes 49 moves, if his opponent moves a pawn he must start over at one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_move_...

Answer 10

technically there is no limit, but if both sides repeat the same move for 3 turns it is a stalemate

Answer 11

50:  

(b) Fifty move rule: at least fifty moves (by each side) have passed with no pawn being moved and no capture being made.

That's strict rules (I believe) anyway. I just read through and highlighted one extract from

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

though so I may be wrong.