insufficient material draw

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notmtwain

Sep 26, 2018

SIR1012 wrote:

Why did I once make a draw by taking away the last piece of my opponent and the game ended and it said that it’s a draw due to insufficient material but why when it happens to me that I am left only with my king the game doesn’t end and I need to go around like I donno what until the game ends either if my opponent was stupid enough to let me take all his other pieces or he finally checkmates me?????

The difference is that in the first game, you must have run out of time. They call the game a draw because there was no possibility that your opponent's lone king could have ever mated you, no matter how badly you played.

That was not true in the second game. As long as you both have time, the game can continue. However, if your opponent's time were to run out, it would be judged a draw.