Stalemate vs. Tie — What's the Difference?

Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move. The rules of chess provide that when stalemate occurs, the game ends as a draw.

Attach or fasten with string or similar cord

A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock.

Restrict or limit (someone) to a particular situation or place

A position in chess resulting in a draw because the player whose turn it is, though not currently in check, would be put into check by any possible move.

Connect; link

To bring into a stalemate.

Achieve the same score or ranking as another competitor or team

(chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.

A piece of string, cord, or similar used for fastening or tying something

(by extension) Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but involves no personal loss.

A rod or beam holding parts of a structure together.

Any kind of match in which neither contestant laid claim to victory; a draw.

A thing that unites or links people

To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.

A strip of material worn round the collar and tied in a knot at the front with the ends hanging down, typically forming part of a man's smart or formal outfit

To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.

A result in a game or other competitive situation in which two or more competitors or teams have the same score or ranking; a draw

The position of the king when he can not move without being placed in check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

A sports match between two or more players or teams in which the winners proceed to the next round of the competition

To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.

To fasten or secure with or as if with a cord, rope, or strap

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible;

To fasten by drawing together the parts or sides and knotting with strings or laces

Drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check

To make by fastening ends or parts

Subject to a stalemate

To put a knot or bow in

To confine or restrict as if with cord

To bring together in relationship; connect or unite

To equal (an opponent or an opponent's score) in a contest.

To equal an opponent's score in (a contest)

(Music)To join (notes) by a tie.

To be fastened or attached

To achieve equal scores in a contest.

A cord, string, or other means by which something is tied.

Something that connects or unites; a link

A necktie.

A beam or rod that joins parts and gives support.

One of the timbers or slabs of concrete laid across a railroad bed to support the rails.

An equality of scores, votes, or performance in a contest

A contest so resulting; a draw.

(Music)A curved line above or below two notes of the same pitch, indicating that the tone is to be sustained for their combined duration.

A knot; a fastening.

A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.

A strong connection between people or groups of people.

(construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.

The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.

(cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).

An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).

A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.

(music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.

(statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.

(surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.

(graph theory) A connection between two vertices.

A tiewig.

(transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.

(transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.

(transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.

To secure (something) by string or the like.

(ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.

To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.

(music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

To believe; to credit.

In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.

A knot; a fastening.

A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.

A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.

A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

Low shoes fastened with lacings.

To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.

To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.

To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

To make a tie; to make an equal score.

Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front;

A social or business relationship;

The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;

A horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating;

A fastener that serves to join or link;

Equality of score in a contest

(music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value

One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;

A cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied;

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;

Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;

Limit or restrict to;

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;

Form a knot or bow in;

Create social or emotional ties;

Perform a marriage ceremony;

Make by tying pieces together;

Unite musical notes by a tie