What’s on the Check, Mate & Stalemate poster
A 6-row table: State · Means · Result.
The distinction decides an enormous number of club games.
- Check — King attacked; a legal reply exists — Play continues
- Checkmate — King attacked; no legal reply — Attacker wins
- Stalemate — Not in check; no legal move — Draw
- Threefold repetition — Same position three times — Draw, on claim
- Fifty-move rule — 50 moves, no capture or pawn move — Draw, on claim
- Insufficient material — Neither side can mate — Draw
Three ways out of check: move the king, block the line, or capture the attacker. A double check allows only the first.
Questions about the Check, Mate & Stalemate poster
- What’s on the Check, Mate & Stalemate poster?
- A 6-row table: State · Means · Result. The distinction decides an enormous number of club games. Check — King attacked; a legal reply exists — Play continues; Checkmate — King attacked; no legal reply — Attacker wins; Stalemate — Not in check; no legal move — Draw; Threefold repetition — Same position three times — Draw, on claim; Fifty-move rule — 50 moves, no capture or pawn move — Draw, on claim; Insufficient material — Neither side can mate — Draw. Three ways out of check: move the king, block the line, or capture the attacker. A double check allows only the first.
- Who is the Check, Mate & Stalemate poster for?
- Check, Mate & Stalemate belongs to the Chess section rather than to a school year, because games is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning fundamentals can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Check, Mate & Stalemate poster?
- Stalemate is a draw. No legal move and not in check ends the game level. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Check, Mate & Stalemate belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Check, Mate & Stalemate?
- Ways a Game Can Be Drawn, Setting Up the Board and Chess Clocks sit alongside Check, Mate & Stalemate in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Ways a Game Can Be DrawnSetting Up the BoardChess Clocks
- Is the Check, Mate & Stalemate poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Check, Mate & Stalemate downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chess section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Check, Mate & Stalemate poster print at?
- Check, Mate & Stalemate is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Check, Mate & Stalemate loses nothing.Printing guide
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