Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 22:01:45 09/26/03
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On September 26, 2003 at 14:24:26, Dan Andersson wrote: > A way of definition is that he couldn't mate you even if he was allowed to make >your moves. As in a self mate problem. Retrograde analysis can do the trick as >with EGTBs. Especially since the positions are scarce and by need have scarce >material. Some examples: pawn against knight is lost since you might promote to >a bishop and then put your king in a corner and the bishop on the side. And then >he mates by placing king and knight two squares out king opposing king. Ok so far, but what if the time element is considered ? I.e. I lose on time and I want to know if I declare the game lost for me or drawn due to insufficient opponent's mating material. Seems to me the time aspect was neglected in this discussion. What are the rules about losing/draw on time ? How it's dealt in FIDE rules and how it's dealt for example on ICC ? It occurs to me that a position like Dieter posted above might be technically a draw (even if there are pawns on the board) - but what if the time element is involved ? Cheers, Andrei
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