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Stockfish level 8 cannot checkmate with knight and bishop

If Stockfish level 8 has a king, a knight, and a light-squared bishop and the opponent has just a king, then if the opponent moves their king to the dark-squared corner then eventually the game results in a draw with Stockfish giving up their bishop or knight. The analysis states that Stockfish made blunders.
Very strange, Cheap computerprograms in the 80's could do that mate.

You are marked as engine. Maybe I can use your engine hehe :)
Possibly a more efficient way to checkmate than in the study is to keep the king on the edge and move the knight in a W pattern, meanwhile blocking the square the king came from using the bishop.
Yes there is a faster method called triangulation or something but I don't know it.

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