🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Nov 14, 2019 08:33 PM UTC:
One more question remains. While the rules seem to allow for second-order stalemate when the King is not in check, what about when the King is in check? Should this count as checkmate or stalemate? From the understanding that checkmate is check plus stalemate, we could argue that check plus second-order stalemate is also checkmate. Or, we might argue that the ability to escape check, even if no follow-up move is possible by any means of escaping check, constitutes only stalemate. Here's an example:
One more question remains. While the rules seem to allow for second-order stalemate when the King is not in check, what about when the King is in check? Should this count as checkmate or stalemate? From the understanding that checkmate is check plus stalemate, we could argue that check plus second-order stalemate is also checkmate. Or, we might argue that the ability to escape check, even if no follow-up move is possible by any means of escaping check, constitutes only stalemate. Here's an example: