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So on move 68 the only piece I had left was my king. The game progressed on to move 118 and I got checkmated and lost rating points but I thought that after 50 moves with only your king remaining the game ends in a draw. It even says on that info thingy that the game went 50 moves with only my king on the board so the game is a draw, but above that it says 0-1. I'm wondering if I am missing something or maybe It's a bug. Thank you so much!

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Jp2o wrote:

So on move 68 the only piece I had left was my king. The game progressed on to move 118 and I got checkmated and lost rating points but I thought that after 50 moves with only your king remaining the game ends in a draw. It even says on that info thingy that the game went 50 moves with only my king on the board so the game is a draw, but above that it says 0-1. I'm wondering if I am missing something or maybe It's a bug. Thank you so much!

It's 50 moves with no captures or pawn moves then it's a draw. Checkmate happened on move 50 so that take precedence. The information message is in error.

edit: the 50 moves is for both players: white had made 50 moves, and black mated on their 50th move. Had mate not occurred on that move, it would have been a draw.

https://www.chess.com/terms/50-move-rule-chess

  •  a move consists of each player moving a piece once
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The 50 move rule starts on move 69.

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Thank you for clearing that up.