Stalemate in chess is a final position where the player whose turn it is to move - and whose king is not in check - cannot make a legal move without setting his own king in check. When stalemate occurs, the game ends as a draw, independent of the material still remaining on the chessboard. In this book you will find almost 200 diagrams which are classified by themes. I hope they will satisfy the curious as well as the aesthetes and those players who strive to master one of the basic strategies of this noble game.