Stalemate

Quality:

Stalemate - situation in chess when no legal move can be done by the player who has to do a move. Article “Stalemate” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Stalemate”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1054 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3044 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2213 in June 2024
• Global: #1892 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17512 in April 2023
• Global: #8365 in December 2020

There are 43 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Stalemate		91.1893
2	Italian (it) Stallo (scacchi)		48.0466
3	Tamil (ta) இக்கட்டு (சதுரங்கம்)		36.319
4	Portuguese (pt) Afogamento (xadrez)		32.4551
5	Norwegian (no) Patt		28.9884
6	Chinese (zh) 欠行		28.3949
7	French (fr) Pat (échecs)		26.3669
8	German (de) Patt		26.2145
9	Dutch (nl) Patstelling		25.0922
10	Ukrainian (uk) Пат		24.1567

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stalemate		4 133 155
2	Russian (ru) Пат		1 206 524
3	Spanish (es) Rey ahogado		915 497
4	German (de) Patt		792 562
5	Japanese (ja) ステイルメイト		673 673
6	French (fr) Pat (échecs)		619 569
7	Polish (pl) Pat		486 916
8	Portuguese (pt) Afogamento (xadrez)		278 488
9	Italian (it) Stallo (scacchi)		244 804
10	Dutch (nl) Patstelling		224 130

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stalemate		5 966
2	French (fr) Pat (échecs)		2 081
3	Russian (ru) Пат		1 836
4	German (de) Patt		1 617
5	Japanese (ja) ステイルメイト		1 548
6	Spanish (es) Rey ahogado		720
7	Polish (pl) Pat		711
8	Italian (it) Stallo (scacchi)		502
9	Chinese (zh) 欠行		478
10	Persian (fa) پات		420

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stalemate		239
2	German (de) Patt		92
3	French (fr) Pat (échecs)		68
4	Dutch (nl) Patstelling		67
5	Russian (ru) Пат		61
6	Spanish (es) Rey ahogado		56
7	Italian (it) Stallo (scacchi)		42
8	Japanese (ja) ステイルメイト		41
9	Polish (pl) Pat		32
10	Hebrew (he) פט		31

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Patt		1
2	Finnish (fi) Patti		1
3	Arabic (ar) ردب (شطرنج)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Pat		0
5	Belarusian (be) Пат		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Пат		0
7	Catalan (ca) Ofegat		0
8	Czech (cs) Pat		0
9	Danish (da) Pat (skak)		0
10	Greek (el) Πατ		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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