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putting him in check, and at the same time has no other Piece or Pawn to move instead, he is said to Stale-mated, and the game must be relinquished as a drawn battle.

In addition to the instances just cited, where the game is drawn by perpetual check or stale-mate, a drawn game may arise from neither party having sufficient force left to effect a Check-mate, as a King and a Kt. only, or a King and two Knights, &c. The game is considered drawn, too, when one party, having sufficient force left, is ignorant of the proper way to apply it, and fails to Check-mate his helpless opponent within the fifty moves prescribed by the 22nd law. It is drawn also where both parties persist in repeating the same move from fear of each other, or where they are left at the end with an equal force, as a King and Queen against a King and Queen, or a King and Pook against a King and Pook ; when, except in peculiar cases, the game is resigned as null.

A Check-mate which is occasionally given by the Kt. when the adverse King is hemmed in or stifled by his own forces.

The simplest and speediest of all Check-mates, being effected in two moves, ex. gr.:—

Is a Check-mate occasionally given at the outset of a game to an inexperienced player, thus :—