A way to protect one's castle to get stalemate game (10)

I believe the answer is:

drawbridge

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(Other definitions for drawbridge that I've seen before include "this may have been deployed in defence" , "Barbican may defend this" , "Keep opening" , "Castle defence" , "for reasons of security" .)

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