Player A would lose on time.
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Now, the chances of this happening in an actual game are basically none, but I'm still curious as to what the official rules say about this kind of situation:
Suppose that players A and B are playing an OTB game. A is winning on the board, but B is winning on time. At a point in the game, it is A's turn to move. He has a mate in 1, but less than 1 second on his clock. So what happens is this: A picks up the piece he is using to mate - his time runs out - then he places that piece on the mating square (I think I've seen people use that term before). According to official FIDE rules, is this a win for A, who checkmated B, or a win for B, who won on time. And would it make a difference if A's time had run out before he had touched the piece he was moving, or if A had already moved the pieve to the mating square before time ran out, but hadn't let go yet?