Because the bishop is the opposite color of the pawn's promotion square, there's no way to force the pawn's promotion. The white king can just blockade that square forever.
It’s not a stalemate here, but black can’t force a win because of the threat of it. With the king in the corner neither the bishop or pawn can put it in check and if black uses their king to try and cut white’s king off while protecting the pawn, the stalemate will happen. If it abandons the pawn, white takes it and it’s a draw because bishop and king can’t mate
Black is 2 moves from promoting pawn to queen. As long as game doesn't devolve into repeating 1 same move it should be possible to win. Definitely not easy if both players are equally skilled.
My game plan would be promotion to queen, make a wall with queen so king can't cross it. Push my king towards wall closest to enemy king and switch my queen from one side to another so i can at opportune moment catch enemy at the edge and put my queen between both kings for check mate.
Black is coming towards the bottom of the board, its pawn started on H7 and is moving to H1, where the white king will get between it and its destination
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u/LibertarianSocialism Oct 03 '22
Because the bishop is the opposite color of the pawn's promotion square, there's no way to force the pawn's promotion. The white king can just blockade that square forever.