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Revival: Fix draw by insufficient material with Knight or Bishop

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Problem: The game ends in a draw if there is only:

1 King and 1 Knight or 1 Bishop VS 1 King (and 1 Knight or 1 Bishop).

Solution:

1) A) You have a King and Knight VS King (and Knight or Bishop). No other pieces.

Reach your King to the other side of the board first and you can revive a Bishop.

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1) B) You have a King and Bishop VS King (and Bishop or Knight). No other pieces.

Reach your King to the other side of the board first and you can revive a Knight.

Note:

The opposing player can also do this, as long as they reach the other side in the same turn (notation number).

Question:

Where would the revived piece go?

Left or Right of the King? (Last rank)

[S]I'd say the player gets to decide that.[\S]

Edit: Your Knight/Bishop has to be either on the left side or right side of your King (also on the last rank). As the revived piece will go on the other side. If the King goes to the corner, then the revived piece will go infront of the King (not diagonal).

Edit: Note 2:

I tried to underline the Note part, but I can't as the advanced editor tools doesn't appear when editing.

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/try-to-underline-in-your-comment

I'm using a smartphone, so I can't use that shortcut even on desktop mode. Anybody know how?

[U] Testing U brackets [/U]

evert823

How many games actually end in this kind of endgames so that your rule would come into effect and change the game?

HGMuller

I suppose there is some importance of this in pawn-poor end-games. E.g. KNPKB is usually easy to draw, because you can sac the B for P. When KNK is not a draw, this becomes much harder, and KNPKB would often be a win.

The proposed rule is needlessly complex, though. If you want such end-games to be a win, youcould simply use teh Shatranj baring rule.