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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:45:54 09/26/03

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On September 27, 2003 at 00:57:38, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>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
>
>Nb3#

I guess that the last move of black was Kxc1
I guess that there was a white bishop at c1.
of course black did not have to take the bishop but in that case black could
lose by a more parosaic way.

Kxc1 Nb3# may be the end of a study that is going to be composed.

Uri



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