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What you'll learn
How games are won, drawn, and lost.
You can't win until you know what winning IS. The goal of chess isn't to capture the king — it's to TRAP it: that's checkmate, and it ends the game on the spot.
We'll look at checkmate and its sneaky cousin stalemate (a draw) on the board, learn the other ways a game can end, and then you'll deliver a few mates yourself.
- Win by checkmate — trapping the enemy king.
- Stalemate is a DRAW, not a win — don't fall for it.
- See it, then do it.