Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:13:41 03/16/03
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On March 16, 2003 at 14:50:41, Alastair Scott wrote:
>On March 16, 2003 at 01:00:39, Igor V. Korshunov wrote:
>
><big snip>
>
>I think you might catch quite a few programs with the issue noted in the first
>two games; I did a quick check and was surprised to see that Chess Tiger 15.0
>for Palm gives 'insufficient material to mate' in all of K+B vs K+B, K+B vs K+N
>and K+N vs K+N!
>
>Your interpretation of the rules of chess is correct ('The game is drawn when a
>position is reached from which a checkmate cannot occur by any possible series
>of legal moves, even with the most unskilled play.') but I wonder whether
>computer-computer games should be declared drawn with those three material
>balances (given that the moves, for one side to be checkmated, would not merely
>be 'unskilled' but perverse; no computer would play them, and no human would
>play on at all in such a position unless the opponent was in dire time trouble).
>
>Alastair
It's ok to claim a draw in such positions, so long as you can continue playing
the game with no problems...
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