The wrong-coloured bishop

Black to move and draw.

A whole bishop up, and it is a draw: the bishop cannot control the corner where the rook pawn promotes.

The idea

  1. Get your king into the corner and stay there.
  2. Only a bishop of the corner's colour can drive you out, and this one is not.
  3. Move back and forth. Stalemate is your friend here.

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