cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25112863

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
    62·
    4 hours ago

    Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.

    (Edit: it’s a joke. Stalemate/stale content…I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      111·
      1 day ago

      It almost never happens randomly, it has to be forced by the losing player and it’s not easy to do it so I think it’s a valid way of saving the game.

        • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Without the stalemate rule then there’s not much any point in continuing to play once you’re in a poor enough position. You’d literally be wasting both players times waiting in vain for your opponent to irrecoverably blunder hard enough to turn the match, which may be impossible if you’re out of enough pieces.

          With the stalemate rule although you may no longer be able to win, you can still do something so your final outcome is better than a loss. The losing player still has a reason to keep playing. The game is overall more interesting to play and watch by having the stalemate rule than it would be without.

      • dudinax@programming.dev
        34·
        11 hours ago

        The first part of your comment doesn’t justify the second part. But it also isn’t true that it rarely happens randomly. It rarely happens randomly in high-ranked games. Bad rules like stalemate have a much stronger effect on low ranked games, which is what most people play.

        • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
          2·
          9 hours ago

          Stalemates and forcing draws are pretty important imo as someone who dosen’t play and only watch. It’s gave the game a twist that let the losing player a way to fight back from a loosing position to a draw (that feels like a win).

          • dudinax@programming.dev
            11·
            7 hours ago

            They are an important part of the game, but they aren’t a good twist. If you got rid of stalemate, then the losing player would just resign. Nothing wrong with that in a game that’s effectively over.

          • Comment105@lemm.ee
            11·
            8 hours ago

            I can understand that if you don’t play the fucking game you don’t mind the trapped safe king.

        • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          The first part of my comment entirely justifies the second part. It’s a strategy a skilled player currently losing can use to avoid the loss, not a fluke. And no, it also doesn’t randomly happen on low ranked games unless by low ranked you mean “absolute beginners who didn’t even know about the rule”.

          • dudinax@programming.dev
            11·
            7 hours ago

            There’s a whole level of players who simply weren’t thinking about stalemate at the moment. They know the rule, they just weren’t thinking. Trapping the king so he can’t move and nothing can be done should be a win.