What's the answer to this?
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What's the answer to this?
Hi all, what's the answer to this, I have no idea.
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Re: What's the answer to this?
The answer would be how you interpret the rule.
If you believe that having material with the potential to checkmate (regardless of whether it can be practically achieved) then the position would be a win for black.
If you think the rule is more along the lines of a player must be able to deliver checkmate by any sequence of legal moves then it would be a draw as the game is about to be ended by force (the only legal move for white IS an immediate checkmate) so black would never be able to win had the game continued.
If you believe that having material with the potential to checkmate (regardless of whether it can be practically achieved) then the position would be a win for black.
If you think the rule is more along the lines of a player must be able to deliver checkmate by any sequence of legal moves then it would be a draw as the game is about to be ended by force (the only legal move for white IS an immediate checkmate) so black would never be able to win had the game continued.
Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.
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Re: What's the answer to this?
A draw. There is no legal sequence of moves from the position where black can give checkmate, so black cannot win on time.
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Re: What's the answer to this?
Does your ruling depend onIM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 1:30 pmA draw. There is no legal sequence of moves from the position where black can give checkmate, so black cannot win on time.
1. Rules implemented by the online chess provider
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2. Rules implemented by the NGB for the OTB game? (USCF nonsense rules spring to mind) ?
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Re: What's the answer to this?
Hi John,
That is the over the board Laws.
It is also the Laws for an online tournament with an arbiter who should over-rule the platform.
That is the over the board Laws.
It is also the Laws for an online tournament with an arbiter who should over-rule the platform.
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Re: What's the answer to this?
So there is no definitive answer?
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Re: What's the answer to this?
The definitive answer, as others have already explained, is that it's a draw. FIDE article 6.9 - " ... the game is drawn if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player’s king by any possible series of legal moves" applies here.
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Re: What's the answer to this?
ok thanks.
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Re: What's the answer to this?
The draw proposition may not be a complete solution. Consider a slightly different position, which arrives at the position shown after 2 half moves.Roger Lancaster wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 11:04 amThe definitive answer, as others have already explained, is that it's a draw. FIDE article 6.9 - " ... the game is drawn if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player’s king by any possible series of legal moves" applies here.
eg
Blacks previous move was Ra8-a5 ch
White then attempted to play Kg5-g6 but did not release the king after picking it up to move and was still holding it when his flag fell, as observed by the arbiter.
White loses on time as all the conditions of the law are satisfied.
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Re: What's the answer to this?
Well yes, but that is because the move was not completed. Makes total sense.
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