[acchow]

How can there be a win when you hit a stalemate? The players keep repeating the same cycle of moves for years until one dies of old age?

[neoromantique]

Stalemate in chess is when a player is not in check but has no legal moves that wouldn't result in a check.

So essentially it's a lost position for one player, but due to stalemate rule it will count as a draw.