Author: Marc Plum
Date: 15:15:51 02/18/00
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Doesn't this miss the point? It isn't a matter of whether the position can be forced. The side with the Bishop can blunder into a mate. Insufficient mating material would be if it were impossible to make any losing move. Of course, as Bruce Moreland pointed out, it is also possible to construct a forced example. Marc On February 18, 2000 at 09:10:08, Steve Coladonato wrote: >The position in the diagram can not be forced therefore the draw. And the >position shown could not be the final position in your game as you stated you >had just captured an opponents pawn. Pawns are not on your opponents first rank >and it would have to have been white's move not black's. > >The only way for this position to occur is if white had just moved his bishop to >h7. However, if he had left the bishop where it was and moved the king to h7 >instead, there is no mating move.
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