Stale Mate

(This is just a draft, waiting for your comments...)

Your opponent can't move any of the pieces and you don't have a check on opponents king either, and its your opponents turn to move: this situation is called stale mate.

This is a very peculiar situation in chess board. It may happen that you have lots of forces, excellent position, everything to win the game; still you can't win the game. The game ends in a draw.

You can call that opponent is "stale mated" but its not same as "mate"; you haven't won over the opponent though you might have outplayed the opponent in every aspect of the game.

Its not necessary that you are the stronger force and you really have outplayed opponent in the game, but normally that's the case when stale mate happens.

In real life, stale mate normally happens more often than chess. You may outperform someone in a competition, or in a debate about something you think very important to win, or .....

But at the end of it, at the end of having outplayed your opponent in real life, you may find that you really haven't won the game! If you have this feeling, then its stale mate. Stale mate happens in real life, just check yourself, be honest with yourself and ask the question after winning an argument: "Have I really won?"