A Funny Positional Analysis

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I was playing around with the position setup feature in chessbase 14 and created the following position (it is white's turn to move);

Apparently, stockfish 9 running at 8 cpus with a depth of 46 suggests that white has a "decisive advantage" (+2.70 to be more precise, where 1.Nd2 is the first move), even though by all means this is a deadlocked position. Any thoughts on this? 

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itsandrew28 wrote:

I was playing around with the position setup feature in chessbase 14 and created the following position (it is white's turn to move);

 

Apparently, stockfish 9 running at 8 cpus with a depth of 46 suggests that white has a "decisive advantage" (+2.70 to be more precise, where 1.Nd2 is the first move), even though by all means this is a deadlocked position. Any thoughts on this? 

The pawns are locked but you still have pieces to break them up. Give it a try.