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Curious_Barrel

Bit of a random question. A recent game of mine finished in stalemate after I played h3. We were both very short of time and its clearly a draw (although I claim a moral victory!)

 But if I had just moved the bishop back and forth instead of making stalemate and my opponent had timed out would I have won or would it be drawn by insufficient material on the basis that he could have had a breakdown and moved his king away from the corner?

Twpsyn

It's a theoretical draw due to you having the wrong bishops pawn. An arbiter in a chess competition would give a draw but I'm not sure if the chess.com software is good enough to spot this.

Scottrf

You would have won because you still have a pawn.

RyanMurphy5

Based on the fact that you still had a pawn (even though it's a rook pawn in a corner of opposite color to your bishop which makes it theoretically drawn), this should mean you have 'mating' material (because pawns can become queens and whatnot), so I think if you had flagged your opponent the 'draw by insufficient material' rule wouldn't have applied.