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Topic: What should this endgame position be called?
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Is it a legal position?
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Legal if not sensible 
Also, I don't think it matters whether Black just moved his King or a Pawn. White has helped to trap himself and so it wouldn't count as "forced".
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Evjen,have you read the rules of chess under the help column?
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If it is White's move, it is stalemate.
If Black's move, the problem is "Black to stalemate in 1 move", as the winning attempt gxh2 loses.
Can anyone think of a "...to stalemate in 2 moves" problem?
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"Evjen, have you read the rules of chess under the help column?"
Looking through them, I noticed the following which is what I suppose you wanted me to see:
If a King is not in check, *but that player can make no legal move*, the position is called a stalemate and the game is scored as a draw, or tie."
I never realized anyone defined stalemate that way. I always thought of it as being defined as the following:
"Chess. a position of the pieces in which a player cannot move any piece except the king and cannot move the king without putting it in check." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stalemate
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stalemate
http://www.wordia.com/stalemate
Their are several dictionary sites that use the above definition, and other sites that use the Queen Alice definition.
I think the dictionary definitions make more sense than the others.
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