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shomaks wrote:
Could you please look at my game on live chess against ''romar27ph" played 12.1.2009 and explain me how is it possible to be finished like drawn - insufficient material. Is it a mistake or I don't know all the chess rules. I think I should won this game because my oponent had no any time left.
I haven't taken a look at the game but I'm going to assume that with the pieces you had left you wouldn't have been able to checkmate him anyway.
Jan 12, 2009
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and how exactly would you win that game? :D
it is a draw because you don't have any checkmating material.
Jan 12, 2009
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You can't win on time if you don't have any checkmating material (as Erik mentions)
A lone K cannot checkmate K+R+B+P, so you have insufficient material to mate.
Jan 12, 2009
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likesforests wrote:
A lone K cannot checkmate K+R+B+P, so you have insufficient material to mate.
I think Shomaks thought he won when his opponent ran out of time
I have never encountered this scenario.Fascinating,I'm assuming it's a rule I was entirely unaware of. I'm going to set up such a situation on Fritz and see what happens.
weird rule. shoulda won on time
Just says time when the clock expires(in the clock pane).
brrr, finally I understood that shomaks was white!
I thought that he was the black player so it didn't make much sense to me :S
Anyway, I think it's a perfectly sensible rule that you can't win by time if you haven't got the material to mate
awesmond wrote:
weird rule. shoulda won on time
:) no dude this is really a very logical rule
why should one side win when it has no chances of mating the opponent
time is part of the game but still time is not the essence of chess
what really matters is the position on the board
shomaks>weird rule. shoulda won on time
It's a common rule, also used by the USCF and FIDE. Most players don't want wood-pushing to win. If it's impossible to win on the board, you don't win.
Thank's guys, I understand now and it is logical rule.
Here is the rule in the FIDE Laws of Chess.
| 6.10 |
Except where Articles 5.1 or one of the Articles 5.2 (a), (b) and (c) apply, if a player does not complete the prescribed number of moves in the allotted time, the game is lost by the player. However, the game is drawn, if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player`s king by any possible series of legal moves, even with the most unskilled counterplay. |
Eye_of_the_dragon wrote:
awesmond wrote:
weird rule. shoulda won on time
:) no dude this is really a very logical rule
why should one side win when it has no chances of mating the opponent
time is part of the game but still time is not the essence of chess
what really matters is the position on the board
good point
Could you please look at my game on live chess against ''romar27ph" played 12.1.2009 and explain me how is it possible to be finished like drawn - insufficient material. Is it a mistake or I don't know all the chess rules. I think I should won this game because my oponent had no any time left.