I keep getting stalemates

I keep doing it all the time, I just dont know how to check mate.

Some advice would be appreciated

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> Some advice would be appreciated 

I'd advise you to stop getting stalemates.

In the endgame you need to continuously look for checks. If there are no checks, make sure your opponent has at least one legal move.

You cannot stalemate if your opponent is in check

It seems to me that you are just making random good-looking moves without calculating anything. If you want to improve, you need to stop that. From at least move 30 to 42 all you needed to do was to stop and think for a little bit. Instead, you blitzed out one pointless move after another.

You are not leaving your opponent a legal move, so it automatically stalemates, happens to me also,  slow down and look around. 

Learn to take your mates in 1 when they are available.

Learn them!

Also, why do you need so many rooks, bishops and knights to land a checkmate?

The more pieces you have beyond a certain threshold, the lower your chances of winning (due to the increased likelihood of stalemates).

In endgames a lot of juniors promote to a rook rather than a queen to avoid stalemates.

Play in lines not in squares. When you take away squares from he opposite king it will end up stalemated at some point. But when you leave a file for the opposing king there are always 1 or 2 squares it can play to. In the checkmate move you take them all away in 1 stroke - commonly with a rook or a queen.

As a general principle:

• If he is in check it can't be stalemate
• if he has at least 1 legal move, it can't be stalemate

A lot of stalemates can be prevented if you check if you for one of these conditions each move before you  play. The second part suggests that it can sometimes be better not to take all of you opponents pieces, but let him have 1 left, so he always has a move to play.

Secondly, think about where your opponents King can and can't go. As others have mentioned, you played random moves every 4 seconds, which was totally unnecessary. On move 33, for example, you had a +26 material advantage, you covered almost every square on the board and had 6 minutes.

There were 2 ways to have checkmate in 2, at least 2 ways to get checkmate in 3. Use your 6 minutes.  Look up mating nets on YouTube or anywhere, it might help you.

Finally, when you don't have much time on the clock it's frequently better not to look for the fewest moves to checkmate, but look for the fastest way to checkmate in what you can play safely.  That might look like this:

For me a main tip would be to take your time if you have it to calculate moves .Secondly is to just do ladder mates and walk the king up the board with checks from rooks and queens .Third make sure your opponent has a legal move after you play your move.

I made a video on how to avoid stalemate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZiZPW0pbZc&t=2s

I hope that this helps you!

You have to check your opponent because stalemate wouldn't happen if you do checks

Obvious advice, but not to all! Chess is a thinking game, as you rightly point out.

The Chess pieces do not move themselves, do they? Nor are we born with the knowledge of how to play.

Whether Chess is worth the effort, that is a different story. 

But ultimately you will have to train your visualization skills such that you can see in your head that you attack all squares surrounding the enemy king without attacking the king itself. Possibly you can already do that but your moves are too hurried - or under extreme time pressure where stalemate occasionally happens to everyone.

You need visualization in all parts of the game, not just to evade the stalemates. Solving lots of tactics puzzles is great training!

Thank you everyone for your input, Ive got the feeling you guys are collectivly telling me to slow down and start to think. And thats true I kind of just threw my pieces threatening the king and just expected a checkmate to happen eventually at this point.

I looked up some checkmate tutorials and took things more slowly, also im using the right mouse click to show where each piece goes that helped me alot to plan ahead.

This game I had on my birthday which had "for my standard's" a very satisfying checkmate, to be fair my opponent had alot of attacking opportunities but I still think the checkmate was somewhat decent!

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