weird
honestly im not the expert in variants
but still weird...
Get your rules right, this is a draw not a loss
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pretty standard in giveaway chess, if you have a bishop and nothing else and your opponent has the bishop of the opposite colour you can't lose.
As it is it was easy for my opponent to draw by keeping the pawn on a white square, the knight on a black square, and just keep moving the bishop back and forth.
Still, there were legal sequences that could have let my opponent lose therefore if he'd flagged it would be a win for me. But that isn't what happened.
If both players have a knight and nothing else, the one who is to move when they are on the same coloured square cannot lose. That is slightly harder for a computer to work out in the case of flagging.
Chess_Kibitzer_2020 wrote:
pretty standard in giveaway chess, if you have a bishop and nothing else and your opponent has the bishop of the opposite colour you can't lose.
As it is it was easy for my opponent to draw by keeping the pawn on a white square, the knight on a black square, and just keep moving the bishop back and forth.
Still, there were legal sequences that could have let my opponent lose therefore if he'd flagged it would be a win for me. But that isn't what happened.
If both players have a knight and nothing else, the one who is to move when they are on the same coloured square cannot lose. That is slightly harder for a computer to work out in the case of flagging.
I assume, since this is giveaway, it is always possible for one player to lose (not by force, but rather one player throwing) unless the only pieces left are color-bound to opposite square colors (i.e. one light-squared bishop and one dark). Maybe you can force a draw but it is still possible for let's say a 1500 to blunder many times and let the opponent hang pieces to force captures and ultimately let them win the game.
https://www.chess.com/variants/giveaway/game/28555275
There is no legal sequence that will let him win therefore when my flag falls it's a draw