A Beginner Asks: Is This Winnable?

as long as you don't blunder it is a draw

The game is hopelessly drawn, unless one side lets the pawn go undefended. 

Black would draw if he had the move even without his bishop and pawn.

The game is handshakable, even between two unreasonably bad players.

Per #7, if you give Black the move and remove Bc6 and Pa6 in return, it's still an elementary draw.

Draw, whoever is on move.

As lepontmirabeau pointed out, even if black drops the pawn on a6 and drops his bishop, that game is still a draw as long as the black king can reach a8.

Fixed.

Just park the bishops on b5 and b6 and nobody is going anywhere.

Thank you all for your answers and for the variety of ways you answered! This is how a forum should be. I'll be reading you and learning from you. [It was White to move; I thought the diagram would say that.]

If it were a puzzle, it would say "white to move", but as a diagram, you have to state it yourself. Wouldn't matter in this particular one, though.

The original positional is winnable, but one side would need to blunder badly.

[To #14:>]Thanks. [To #15:>]I can imagine beginner players both holding out in hope that the other will stumble. I liked the black-k-runs-to-a8 ploy first mentioned in #9 post-- no room for more blunders and an end to it.

To expand, because I didn't really explain my comment.

If one player has an a or h pawn only, and the defending king can reach the promotion square, it's a draw. The pawn can't be promoted and if you alternate between the promotion square and an adjacent one eventually the only way to not keep repeating is to create stalemate.

An extension of this is that the same situation occurs when the attacking side has an a or h pawn and a bishop that is of the opposite colour of the promotion square. It's a draw in the same way.

I believe that black has won if it is his move.

True, although he would still need to play ten moves in a row without white moving anything, to win.

Oh, I didn't notice the bishops. That's why I shouldn't post at night.

Botvinnik's Law says no.  The bishop and pawn defend one another and even if the bishops were same color the other king is barred by your king.  Opposite colored bishops are notoriously drawish for a reason, especially when material is equal.  You need to have a strong initiative to have any chances of winning an opposite colored bishop ending.

BS for its a draw.

Yeah if black only has 9 moves in a row it's a draw.