stalemate

English

Etymology

stale + mate "checkmate"

Noun

Wikipedia stalemate (plural stalemates)

1. (chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.
2. Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss.

Related terms

• checkmate
• mate
• stale

Translations

chess term

Armenian: պատ (hy) (pat) Bulgarian: пат (bg) (pat) m. Chinese: Mandarin 對峙狀態, 对峙状态 (duìzhì zhuàngtài) Czech: pat (cs) m. Dutch: pat m., patstelling m. Estonian: patt (et) Finnish: patti (fi) French: pat (fr) m. German: Patt (de) n. Greek: πατ (el) (pat) n. Irish: leamhsháinn f. Italian: stallo (it) m.

Japanese: 行き詰り (ja) (ゆきまり, yukimari), ステイルメイト (ja) (suteirumeito) Korean: 교착상태 (ko) (gyochaksangtae) Latin: (Classical) matum stabilis, (Modern) stancamentum Macedonian: пат (mk) (pat) m. Polish: pat (pl) m. Russian: пат (ru) (pat) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пат (sh) m. Roman: pat (sh) m. Slovak: pat (sk) m. Spanish: tablas (es) f. pl. Swedish: patt (sv) c.

blocked situation without personal loss

Arabic: طريق مسدود (ar), مأزق (ar) Armenian: պատ (hy) (pat) Bulgarian: безизходица (bg) (bezizhoditsa) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 僵局 (zh) (jiāngjú) French: impasse (fr) f. German: Stocken n., Stillstand m.

Greek: αδιέξοδο (el) (adiéksodo) n. Macedonian: ќор-сокак (mk) (ḱór-sokák) m. Polish: pat (pl) m. Russian: тупик (ru) (tupík) m., пат (ru) (pat) m., безвыходное положение (ru) (bezvýxodnoje položénije) n. Spanish: un punto muerto (es) m., estancamiento (es) m. Telugu: ప్రతిష్టంభన (pratishTaMbhana)

Verb

stalemate (third-person singular simple present stalemates, present participle stalemating, simple past and past participle stalemated)

1. (chess, transitive) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.

See also

• check

Anagrams

• metalates