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Subject: Re: Is this a draw?

Author: Andrew Smith

Date: 09:07:22 01/14/02

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On January 14, 2002 at 10:43:31, David Rasmussen wrote:

>Chezzz encountered the following position as white:
>
>[D]6k1/1Q6/3K1b1p/5P2/6P1/8/8/4r3 w - - 0 100
>
>In fact this is just one random position, I could have chosen any of the
>positions from the last 20 moves of the game or so, because the point is that it
>didn't seem to progress at all. I would think that white would have an advantage
>here, but I am a lousy chess player. Is this a draw? Are there some rules that
>will tell me that this is a draw? What do programs with tablebases say here?
>
>/David

From my perspective it looks like a pretty simple draw. Of course computers only
count material and don't really know anything about such positions



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