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Maorider[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
Robert Shimmin wrote on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 09:01 PM UTC:
K + NN vs K cannot possibly be a win, because there are no positions in
which a king and nightrider can checkmate a bare king.  To be able to
checkmate the bare king (with the assistance of the friendly king) it is
at least necessary that a piece attack two orthogonally adjacent squares.