Bugs involving King and Bishop

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I found that if I resign when my opponent has only a king and bishop then it says draw by insufficient material regardless of what material I have https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/26880568/8/4

Yet in this same exact position the side with the king and bishop not only can checkmate but, can actually force a checkmate as shown herehttps://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/26880608/35/2

In this position I found that if I took the bots bishop it said draw by insufficient material even though I have a forced checkmatehttps://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/26880766/1/2

I even found here that there was a draw by checkmate bug.

This is why I think it should either go back to only a king verses king being counted as a draw by insufficient material, or the a king and bishop should only be counted as draw by insufficient material when there's only another king, and there are no walls on the board, as in some custom positions a king and bishop is not only sufficient to checkmate, but is sufficient to force checkmate even with the other player making the best moves.

Avatar of Johnplaysvariants

hm...weird

Avatar of acgusta2

Why would babyYagon be the one to ask about this?

Avatar of qilp

Yes, usually (e.g. in 2P or 4P chess) it's impossible to checkmate having only one bishop. So there is no bug here; system cannot analyze each position to determine whether it's a dead draw or not really. However, I 100% agree with this:

acgusta2 wrote:

should only be counted as draw by insufficient material when there's only another king, and there are no walls on the board

For now, there are several ways you can bypass such behavior:

1) Enable Capture the King rule.
2) Enable Bare Piece rule.
3) Enable N check rule.

Any of these options will make games continue after capturing the bishop.

acgusta2 wrote:

I even found here that there was a draw by checkmate bug.

Cannot reproduce. There is no draw in the game you gave a link to, so it must be a (one-time) UI bug.