Jud McCranie wrote:

One way a draw can result is if no series of legal moves could result
in checkmate. Usually that means insufficient material to mate, but
is it possible to have a position which has sufficient pieces, but
they are permanently blocked so no checkmate is possible?


4k3
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Ken Blake
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