how to play chess endgames book

12 Stalemate
Stalemate - chess's version of tragicomedy.
SAVIELLY TARTAKOWER
A) The Last Chance
Players often behave as if a newly-promoted
queen automatically wins the game. At the end
of the previous chapter we have already shown
what fatal consequences this error can have.
Here is another example:
A good player knows the right moment to resign
PROVERB
No doubt there is some truth in this aphorism,
since plodding on in a completely lost position
not only makes no sense at all, but also shows a
lack of respect towards the opponent. However,
as the following examples show, it can sometimes
- if you have discovered a hidden stalemate
possibility- be worth putting on a straight
face, making another couple of moves and putting
your faith in your very last chance.
12.02
Menas - Braunstein
Bucharest 1960
1 b7 l2Je3 2 b8~ ttJn+ 3 @gl
3 @hi!? l2Jg3+ 4 @gl l2Je2+ 5 @h2 +-.
3 •.. @g3 4 @xfl h2 (D)
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E.Sutovsky- V.Beim
Rishon le Zion 1994
White tried a spite check:
1 ~el+!?
But this was unexpectedly crowned by suecess:
l .. JWxel ?? (stalemate) 112-112
l...'~fl would have won.
5~h8??