Stalemate vs Impasses - What's the difference?
stalemate | impasses |
(chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.
Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss.
(chess) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.
(figuratively) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.
* 29 February 2012 , Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17213948]
As nouns the difference between stalemate and impasses
is that stalemate is the state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw while impasses is plural of impasse.As a verb stalemate
is to bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.stalemate
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(stalemat)- The North Korean nuclear issue, stalemated for the past three years, is now back in play again - not before time.