7/6/2012 – Stalemate is one of the more difficult concepts in chess: the game ends not with the capture of the enemy king, but one move earlier, when he is in check and cannot move out of it. Even more baffling, says reader Matt Bishop, is when the king is not in check but would have to move to an attacked square on the next move. That is a draw. Matt pleads for a radical revision of the rules.