Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:35:16 11/17/04
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On November 17, 2004 at 08:39:40, milix wrote: >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. > >[D] knB5/8/1K6/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 > >White to move and mate in one - so this position is not a draw. The king is in >the wrong corner. Fine, but what was black's last move? Had to be the knight. Which could only have come from a6 or c6 otherwise it would have captured the white king. Therefore there was a forced draw one move earlier, where black left the knight on a6/c6 and moved his king instead. It's a draw.
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