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Subject: Re: draw by insufficient material

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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