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How is this draw by insufficient material? I should have won on time

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rohitarondekar

In this game my opponent has sufficient material but ran out of time. Yet Chess.com marked the game as draw. http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=664766362

Scottrf

Search for insufficient in the box on the right. There's 10 threads a week on this.

Lisztae

Insufficient material means that you had insufficient material to mate him

bigmoede

I have the other player beat but the site keeps making me lose and said the other player wins on time.How can this be?

Otomun

Because you ran out of time.

bigmoede

how could I run out of time when we playing 10 minutes sets?and it was no where  near 10 minutes?

rohitarondekar

Oh wow I didn't know about insufficient material in relation with opponents time! Sorry for opening this thread and thank you for the replies! :)