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There is no moment in chess which emotionally tops stalemate, for either player. It is a brief moment of "OMG", but stalemates can be cool too. Take this 5 minute blitz I just played on live chess. I can't post the whole game because it is long and I'm having trouble opening the PGN with notepad, but here is the final position:

Mygame5377

lol

BlueKnightShade

Yeah, chess players need to be awake. Sometimes I make my moves late at night and I don't bother looking too much at the position and make a bad move. Othertimes - late at night - I look at the position and decide to take another look next day when I am more awake, and that is often a good idea.

Anyway in the position you posted it was moving the pawn to f2 that was the blunder. After that move black can not escape a draw. So that was the point where black was not awake. Take a look at the following, there are also some variations if you click on "MOVE LIST":

FrederickRhine

The greatest stalemating combination ever was seen in a game between two computers, Shredder-Gull, 2013. Set up the position after 44...Qxa4 and have a look. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1714659

Ah_Vignette

f2 wasn't really a blunder. Black could have simply captured the rook with the bishop and would have an easy win.

uri65
AnarchyBrian wrote:

f2 wasn't really a blunder. Black could have simply captured the rook with the bishop and would have an easy win.

Capturing with bishop is still a stalemate.

weldongg

as a FM on a alt account I would like to say black could have done these
-M7 1... g4 2. e5 f2 3. xg5+ f3 4. g3+ e4 5. g4+ d3 6. d4+ xd4 7. c1 f1=Q #
-M9 1... d4 2. f5 f2 3. f3 g4 4. xf2 xf2 5. c1 f3 6. b1 g4 7. c1 g3 8. d1 g2 9. e1 g1= Q#
-M9 1... a1+ 2. c2 f2 3. f5 f4 4. xf4 gxf4 5. d3 f1= + 6. e4 d1 7. e5 e2+ 8. f5 e1 9. xf4 g4#
-M10 1... f4 2. xc5 a1+ 3. c2 f2 4. c4 f1= 5. xf4 c1+ 6. d2 xf4+ 7. d3 c4+ 8. d2 c2+ 9. e3 e2+ 10. f3 d3#
-M11 1... g6 2. d7 a1+ 3. c2 f2 4. f7 f4 5. xf4 gxf4 6. d3 f1= + 7. e4 c4+ 8. e5 d4+ 9. e6 e1+ 10. f7 d7+ 11. g8 e8#

weldongg
Ah_Vignette wrote:

f2 wasn't really a blunder. Black could have simply captured the rook with the bishop and would have an easy win.

no it's still a stalemate

Fr3nchToastCrunch

Nothing will ever top this one. Had me wheezing for a solid minute.

After I got done laughing, I spent another few minutes just staring at it in bewilderment. Like...how do you not realize that? This is the most common stalemate in the game. It's something only a <300 elo should unironically do by accident. How?