Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 20:53:33 05/12/00
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On May 12, 2000 at 23:42:56, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >On May 12, 2000 at 23:37:50, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On ICC in the following position, HIARCS(C) as Black offered a draw to a Crafty >>clone Data(C): >>[D]8/8/4N3/8/pp6/2k5/K7/8 w - - 4 46 >>Data refused the draw offer! Go figure. > >White actually does have the possibility of mating with a single N if there are >other pieces on the board (extremely extremely unlikely to happen, but it's >possible!) > > >Regards, >Adrien. For that to be remotely credible, the Black King must trap itself in front of the a-pawn. Here Black can simply march his King to h8 at the opposite end of the board and eliminate "the danger" ;-) No reason to refuse a draw here.
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