Why is a stalemate a draw?

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What? You can’t link to this thread in email? :slight_smile:

Just cut and paste my OED cite. It’ll be up to them to go to a library and read it further, if they need to.

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I can do that, and also include a link to chessvariants. It never hurts to have a second source.

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… if King can protect pawn.
No chance of the king of stalemate where Black King is on 8th rank, 7th rank has white pawn, 6th rank has white king all on the same file.