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It looks like a checkmate to me. Can somebody explain why I got insufficient material?

 

http://live.chess.com/simple?v=20111230#g=230994711

GAME OVER - discord [0.5] vs. chekmayte [1.5] - Game drawn - insufficient material (+3). Your new blitz rating is 1102.

Avatar of Conflagration_Planet

It doesn't show your game.

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black don't have enough material to checkmate white and also one of you used up the time.

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here is the game

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=230994711

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discord wrote:

It looks like a checkmate to me. Can somebody explain why I got insufficient material?

 

http://live.chess.com/simple?v=20111230#g=230994711

GAME OVER - discord [0.5] vs. chekmayte [1.5] - Game drawn - insufficient material (+3). Your new blitz rating is 1102.


It wasn't checkmate.  White ran out of time before delivering mate.  The "insufficient material" is referring to black, since mating with a lone king is impossible.  Otherwise, white would have lost on time.

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I'm guessing you ran out time first?  Normally you would have lost, but since all your opponent had left was his king, which is not enough material to mate, you got the draw.  Sucks, but better than a loss.

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You ran out of time.  You didn't lose though because black had insufficient material to checkmate you. 

There was no mate on the board.

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sound like a echo in here.

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Did your time run out before you could move Qg5 for the mate?

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woodshover wrote:

Did your time run out before you could move Qg5 for the mate?


 good shit Sherlock, you managed to figure that out.  

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kco wrote:
woodshover wrote:

Did your time run out before you could move Qg5 for the mate?


 good shit Sherlock, you managed to figure that out.  


 Why the fk do you care?

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You've seen it before?  Many times?

Alarm!!!!!!!!

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IMDeviate wrote:

Another victim of lag or lag cheater.

I've seen it before - your clock runs out when it's not your move.

You play the mate on your screen...but the server doesn't care because you've already lost (according to the server).


Correct. I made my move. Now looking back it doesn't appear it registered. I was pissed after this one. Thanks for letting me know, what a ripoff game...

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