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Draw possible when one player runs out of time?
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He's out of time, so he can't move anymore, but you can't put him in checkmate, so it's a draw.
Sep 8, 2010
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The game is drawn when a position has arisen in which neither player can checkmate the opponent’s king with any series of legal moves. The game is said to end in a ‘dead position’. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the position was legal. (See Article 9.6)
The official FIDE rules don't mention INSUFFICIENT MATERIAL explicitly (USCF rules do) - though Wikipedia describes it clearly. (Interesting that ... "Until 1867, tournament games that were drawn were replayed. The Paris tournament of 1867 had so many drawn games to be replayed that it caused organizational problems. The British Chess Association decided to award each player a half point instead of replaying the game.") |
Sep 8, 2010
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#5
The issue gets raised from time to time (search for INSUFFICIENT MATERIAL).
This discussion was particularly interesting ...
stallilng-a-drawn-game-for-a-minute-to-win-on-time.
Also insufficient-material2, explanation---insufficient-material-glitch
and insufficient-material-my-opponent-had-a-queen-and-a-knight.
Rhiecko wrote:
At the end of a game where I was down to a king and opponent still had rook, bishop, pawn and king in play, and opponent ran out of time, game was drawn for insufficient material. Is this the correct procedure? On other sites it would have been a win for me because opponent was out of time, but I'm not familiar with formal chess protocol.
Everything is perfectly correct.
I just wonder how did you plan to mate him with a lone king(cause you wanted to get a full point) 
At the end of a game where I was down to a king and opponent still had rook, bishop, pawn and king in play, and opponent ran out of time, game was drawn for insufficient material. Is this the correct procedure? On other sites it would have been a win for me because opponent was out of time, but I'm not familiar with formal chess protocol.