Today, I played a game of chess, which ended in me having a knight, and him having a few pawns and a queen. However, he timed out, and the game was finished "draw; insufficiant material". Now, it is impossible to mate someone with a knight, so a game would end in that position "insufficiant material". However, because my opponment had other pieces, it could, hypotheticly, be possible to mate him, if his current pieces were to act as a wall around his king. Now, I know that my opponment had me in that game, and there was no way I was going to mate him. However, Technechly, I could possibly mate him
This was the game end of the game. I played black. Theoreticly, I could possibly checkmate him, even though it probobly wouldn't happen. He timed out, and it was called a draw.
So my question is this; why didn't I win? Even though I probobly wouldn't, I had the sufficiat materials to mate him, though not by force. I would think that, in a position that ends like this, I would win, because he timed out, and I, technecly, could mate him. So why didn't I win?
The site uses an implementation similar to what's used in US Chess official rules, not the FIDE implementation of mate possible by any series of legal moves
So it's only looking at the material the side with time has, in most cases, and king and knight is insufficient material to win on time.
Today, I played a game of chess, which ended in me having a knight, and him having a few pawns and a queen. However, he timed out, and the game was finished "draw; insufficiant material". Now, it is impossible to mate someone with a knight, so a game would end in that position "insufficiant material". However, because my opponment had other pieces, it could, hypotheticly, be possible to mate him, if his current pieces were to act as a wall around his king. Now, I know that my opponment had me in that game, and there was no way I was going to mate him. However, Technechly, I could possibly mate him
This was the game end of the game. I played black. Theoreticly, I could possibly checkmate him, even though it probobly wouldn't happen. He timed out, and it was called a draw.
So my question is this; why didn't I win? Even though I probobly wouldn't, I had the sufficiat materials to mate him, though not by force. I would think that, in a position that ends like this, I would win, because he timed out, and I, technecly, could mate him. So why didn't I win?