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How is this a draw?

_Dalle_

#1 Oct 7, 2012

Hey there,

Yesterday I played some rounds of Bullet Chess (1|0 format). I was pretty tiered and did some crucial mistakes in my games when I came up with this round.

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=374271970

I cleary would have lost the game. However, I had about 10 seconds left on my clock, while my opponent had under 1 second. I should have won on time, but somehow the game ended as a draw duo to unsifficent material, even though he has a ton of pieces.

Now I'm wondering why? It's the second time I encoutered something like this.

Thanks for any replay, Dalle
Scottrf

#2 Oct 7, 2012

You 'won' on time, but since you didn't have enough pieces to checkmate, the game is a draw. Standard chess rule.
rooperi

#3 Oct 7, 2012

He had a ton of pieces, you didn't, you had insufficent material to mate him, he had insuffcient time to mate you. Draw is good.
_Dalle_

#4 Oct 7, 2012

Ah ok, didn't know about this rule! Thanks!
IM pfren

#5 Oct 7, 2012

You cannot mate with a sole king, so this is a draw.
_Dalle_

#6 Oct 7, 2012

Yeah it's obvious now. I knew that it's impossible to mate with a sole king, but I thought this wouldn't apply if someone rans out of time.

Thanks for the fast replies!

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