Togishere wrote:
MARattigan wrote:
Lord_Hammer wrote:
You cannot force a mate with two knights but a mate is possible. These are help mates. But chess.com doesn’t factor in helpmates, so if you have 2 knights, it will be a draw.
A bit inaccurate even if you omit OP's e0 square.
In the position shown here White has 2 knights but it's neither a draw nor a helpmate.
and this is a helpmate which chess.com appears to "factor in" (if that means awarding the point).
In both final positions White has two knights but it's not a draw. And neither is this
White to play and win
not to mention this
White to play and not win
That position is impossible though, think about it, before this position, on black's move, what could he have played? Nothing.
Look again. They're all legal.
Statistics says, out of 3,100,000 possible positions,
184 positions are won by KNN vs K.
But if you work it out yourself on the back of an envelope you should find that on a standard board alone there are 736 positions won by KNN vs K (616 if you exclude positions that are already mate).
There are lies, damn lies etc.
Statistics never lies. Wrong statistics are due to wrong observer. How did you get 736? I saw 184 on syzgy.
So did I. It's wrong. Count them.