Author: Alessandro Scotti
Date: 06:31:53 11/17/04
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On November 17, 2004 at 08:27:47, Jan K. wrote: >Under winboard/arena which of the following positions should be claimed(/can be >claimed) as drawn by insufficient material-KBKN, KBKNN, KNNKNN? I thought that >KBKN can be claimed as a draw, but once this position happened under Fritz GUI, >my engine claimed draw and stopped playing but GUI still expected me to move and >my engine lost on time. Thx. According to FIDE rules: "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." If this is followed strictly, there are not many possibilities! That said... I think I also have the KBKN bug! :-)
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