Author: Laurens Winkelhagen
Date: 02:28:41 11/22/04
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On November 22, 2004 at 05:23:57, Laurens Winkelhagen wrote: >On November 21, 2004 at 23:48:34, Peter Darin wrote: > >> >>IMO In the position black can mate and it is a mating material because of the >>White pawns which can obstruct the white king and white can be mated. >> >>If a game is Knight vs Knight or Bishops vs Bishops (with no pawns) it is a draw >>due to insufficient material. >> >>Regards >> >>Peter > >By that reasoning even KNvKN and KBvKB are not cases of insufficient mating >material. In both cases the one piece can obstruct it's king so that the >opponents piece can mate. Earlier in this thread we already saw an example of >KBvKB. KNvKN is similar of course. (hmm lets try some FEN of the top of my head, >forgive me when this diagram fails) > [D] kn6/2N5/1K6/8/8/8/8/8 - - 1 0 retry: [D] kn6/2N5/1K6/8/8/8/8/8 b - - 0 1 > >Regards, Laurens.
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