• Example of stalemate Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check and has no legal move. Stalemate results...
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  • Look up stalemate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A stalemate in chess occurs when the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no...
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  • Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate is a 2021 book by M. E. Sarotte about the tensions between NATO, the United States...
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    The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the US military, was fought between the United States and Japan during the Mariana and Palau...
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  • Stalemate is the debut EP of SMP, self-released in 1994. The album was remastered by Chris Demarcus and re-released in 2016. The titletrack was provided...
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  • "Stalemate" is a song by the English band Ben's Brother from their second studio album, Battling Giants (2009). Released as the album's third single on...
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  • In politics, gridlock or deadlock or political stalemate is a situation when there is difficulty passing laws that satisfy the needs of the people. A...
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    The Stalemate in Southern Palestine was a six month standoff between the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and the Ottoman Army in World War...
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    checkmated. If a player is not in check but has no legal moves, then it is stalemate, and the game immediately ends in a draw. A checkmating move is recorded...
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    passant is their only legal move, they are forbidden to "claim" a draw by stalemate; they must either perform the move or end the game on their turn via normal...
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    Bibcode:2014Ene....73..875J. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2014.06.099. "How a nuclear stalemate left radioactive waste stranded on a California beach". The Verge. August...
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    invaded Iran, sparking the eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War, which ended in stalemate. Iran is officially governed as a unitary Islamic Republic with a Presidential...
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    Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans. The country spans a...
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    The halt at the Kansas Line and offensive action stand-down began the stalemate that lasted until the armistice of 1953. The disastrous failure of the...
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    Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who is serving as the sixth and current president...
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  • Ukrainian counteroffensives      (29 August – 11 November 2022) Second stalemate      (12 November 2022 – 7 June 2023) 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive...
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    The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and...
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    another election was called for July 2021. It too failed to break the stalemate, as no political party was able to form a coalition government. In April...
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    its autonomies, Belgium realized a World's First: to avoid a relevant stalemate, international consequences caused transfers of exclusive competences...
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  • The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century...
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  • Stalemate is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti recorded in 1977 and originally released on the Nigerian...
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    offensive would destroy the German defences. Both sides tried to break the stalemate using scientific and technological advances. On 22 April 1915, at the...
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    Despite several military moves and peace conferences, the war sank into a stalemate. In mid May 1967, the Soviet Union issued warnings to Nasser of an impending...
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    Lisbon Madrid Valencia Bailén Tudela Corunna Talavera Cádiz Albuera Ciudad Rodrigo Salamanca Burgos Tordesillas Vitoria Toulouse The Peninsular War (1807–1814)...
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    Hyder Ali and then Tipu Sultan. Defeats in the First Anglo-Mysore war and stalemate in the Second were followed by victories in the Third and the Fourth....
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    withdrawal of Japanese forces from the Korean Peninsula after a military stalemate in Korea's southern provinces. The invasions were launched by Toyotomi...
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    civilians in both the north and the south, the war eventually reached a stalemate. During the war, Rhee's party promoted the One-People Principle, an effort...
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  • player winning. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including stalemate (when the player to move is not in check but has no legal move), threefold...
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    which was being commonly described in the news media and elsewhere as a "stalemate." In January and February, probes were made to assess North Vietnamese's...
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  • variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère version. In some variations, a player may also win...
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