Is Vista cheating?!??!?!

[Dairyman]

Solved on 26 September 2009.


Hi all.

This isn't really an important question but...

I'd like to know WHY, out of five completed games of Chess Titans, I have not won a single one of these games, even when the game appears to end with the computer's king in checkmate.

The picture I have attached shows what I mean. The computer's king can't move without been captured. If he goes to the right, my queen will capture him. If he goes to the left, the rook get's him. If he moves up, again, the queen gets him. And yet it still counts it as a stalemate/draw.

Cheating/glitch? Or am I mistaken? This has happened quite a few times.

EDIT:
Image removed as topic is solved. Turns out it really was a stalemate. Thanks everyone!

[Boozu]

Did the computer have any more peaces? If it has no other peaces then it can't make a move and that is a stalemate.

[Aegis]

Stalemate is a situation in 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. Stalemate is covered in the rules of chess.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalemate

Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one player's king is threatened with capture (in check) and there is no way to meet that threat. Or, simply put, the king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured. Delivering checkmate is the ultimate goal in chess: a player who is checkmated loses the game (the king is never actually captured – the game ends as soon as the king is checkmated because checkmate leaves the defensive player with no legal moves). In practice, most players resign an inevitably lost game before being checkmated.

If a king is under attack but the threat can be met, then the king is said to be in check, but is not in checkmate. If a player is not in check but has no legal move (that is, every possible move would put the king in check), the result of the game is stalemate, and the game ends in a draw (but in other variants, it is a loss for the stalemated player). (See rules of chess.)

I do believe, old son, that in true Microsoft tradition, the game is yankin' your chain!   

[Boozu]

What Aegis said.

[BC_Programmer]

umm... that is a stalemate...


they aren't in check... and there are no legal moves.

[Aegis]

Rats!  My feeble brain had Microsoft right where I wanted them!   

It is stalemate because, on review, no black piece has the king in "check."  I thought the queen did, but I was wrong.  Since white cannot move anywhere that will not put him in "check," he stands at stalemate.

Checkmate would occur if the king currently stood in "check" by a piece, and could not work its way out of the situation by a move, a block by another piece, or a sacrifice by another piece.

::: walks away mumbling ::: Doggone BC Programmer and his intellect...must be that Horton's food...

 

[Dairyman]

Did the computer have any more peaces? If it has no other peaces then it can't make a move and that is a stalemate.

Ah ha. Thanks!

Finally won today! (3 Queens  )

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