If your opponent has no pieces (except the king) and your clock runs out of time(on chess.com), is it a draw?.

Hopefully a moderator or a nice player will confirm this.

I don't know for sure, but I think that you still lose if your opponent claims the win on time. Find out what the staff has to say about this though.

How is it possible for your opponent to have no pieces?

Sorry, I meant no pieces but the king

This is the official rule for the draws.

Draws

Occasionally chess games do not end with a winner, but with a draw. There are 5 reasons why a chess game may end in a draw:

1. The position reaches a stalemate where it is one player’s turn to move, but his king is NOT in check and yet he does not have another legal move
2. The players may simply agree to a draw and stop playing
3. There are not enough pieces on the board to force a checkmate (example: a king and a bishop vs. a king)
4. A player declares a draw if the same exact position is repeated three times (though not necessarily three times in a row)
5. Fifty consecutive moves have been played where neither player has moved a pawn or captured a piece.

So the question is, do you have what it take to checkmate the oppenent.  If the answer is yes, there is no draw.

Yeah, unfortunately for you that is a loss.

as far as i know, if a clock runs out of time, that player has lost. so i guess you can win with only a king.

I had once this situation at the OTB active chess tournament ( I had just king and he ran out of time) and it is a draw. The same on FICS - you get a message like "draw - one ran out of time and another doesn't have sufficient material to win".

On live chess, however, it is a loss, i think. For #4 in the ways a draw happens, can you do that on chess.com?

If time runs out, you lose.

If you cannot win with the pieces on the board, all you can hope for is a draw.

A timeout by your opponent allows you that draw not a win.

http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess.html

"If a player runs out of time and the opponent calls the time, then the player who ran out of time loses the game (unless the opponent does not have enough pieces to checkmate, in which case it is a draw)."

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/timeout-and-lack-of-material-to-mate?

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/how-is-this-a-draw-admins

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/draw-automatically-given-when-l-lost-on-time

No its not I recently was being thrashed but had more time and he offered a draw when he had 1 sec left and it automatically accepted since I had insufficient material.