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Subject: Re: When is considered the opponent does not have enough mating material ?

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 21:57:38 09/26/03

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On September 26, 2003 at 15:08:54, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On September 26, 2003 at 14:48:50, Peter Stayne wrote:
>
>>White king on h1, Black king on g3, knight 1 at f2, knight 2 at e2 is mate, but,
>>of course, you'd need help from your opponent to get him into that position.
>
>The king even does not need to be in the corner

Seems to me like a kind of forced position.
What was black kings last move ? I.e. he was either on c2 or d1, and in both
cases he could have just captured the d2 knight instead moving to c1.

[D] 8/8/8/8/8/4N3/3N4/K1k5 w - - 0 1

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• Re: When is considered the opponent does not have enough mating material ? Uri Blass 22:45:54 09/26/03
  • Re: When is considered the opponent does not have enough mating material ? Andrei Fortuna 00:22:32 09/27/03

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