Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 12:50:27 06/30/05
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On June 30, 2005 at 15:41:42, James T. Walker wrote: >On June 30, 2005 at 15:38:06, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On June 30, 2005 at 15:32:32, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>I reached this position vs a CM9K personality as black and CM9K claimed a win on >>>time. >>> >>>[D]8/8/4b3/5pk1/6pp/8/4N3/6K1 b - - 0 61 >> >>It's legal if your flag fell. > >So a King + Knight is considered mating material if I have stuff still on the >board. If I had nothing it would be a draw. Is it still mating material if I >have only one pawn? It's a simple matter of using your chess imagination :) For any pawn it is a simple matter of promoting to a Rook or Bishop and corner the king and wait for the opponent to mate you. And in the special case of a Rook pawn you can corner the king without promotion. MvH Dan Andersson >Thanks, >Jim
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