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Constantly valuating at about -30...

Crazy enough, every chess player in the world can see immediately it's a draw from the very beginning, unless white concedes a helpmate, yet stockfish doesn't get it...

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True, but the engine does see that a pawn move by white results in checkmate in a few moves, so it would actually play this position correctly and get a draw, despite the huge negative evaluation.

I played it out on lichess.org. After 47 moves, Stockfish sacrifices a bishop to keep the game going.

I was wondering if it would repeat that 47 moves later, but it didn't. Settled for the draw.

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