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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 25, 2004 04:50 PM UTC:
Here is the rule that most pertains to the sort of situation you were asking about: <P>10.4<BR> The game is drawn when one of the following endings arises:</P> <P>(a) king against king;<BR> (b) king against king with only bishop or knight;<BR> (c) king and bishop against king and bishop, with both bishops on diagonals of the same colour.<BR> This immediately ends the game.</P> <P>There is no mention in this rule of the specific situation you described, in which one side has a Knight and the other side has a Bishop. In looking over the FIDE rules of Chess, I found no rule describing the situation you asked about.</P> <P>I expect the reason for there being no rule saying this is a draw is because checkmate is still possible with these four pieces. Set up this configuration, and you will have a mate-in-one for White. White King on f8, White Knight on e5, Black King on h8, and Black Bishop on h7.</P>

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