« Back to All Topics
Opponent Ran Out of Time, Draw?
Posted in 
Chess
Opponent Ran Out of Time, Draw?
Posted in 
Chess
Opponent Ran Out of Time, Draw?
It’s the last game I played and I’m upset so I’m going to be off for a while.  
Was playing a 20min game with Manu16.  I was beating him easily and he was losing time so I played with him letting him kill queen and such.  I was down to a knight and a pawn and he had a queen, 3 pawns and 8 seconds left.  He suicided his pieces to try to force a draw By leaving us both with only knights but I let him walk 1 pawn to the end and get a queen instead as he did not have time to finish me.
The game ended with me having knight and him only a queen as he timed out but game declared a draw.  Why?

If you run out of time you lose and that should be it.
hi
there is an automatic draw system after 100 moves for the 2 players
malik
The draw didn’t happen because of 100 moves.

A message popped up saying “your opponent has ran out of time, the game has ended in a draw.”  
hi
so you lost the 1st game and the opponent by losing in time you won so why there was draw
malik
The game is a draw if you cannot deliver checkmate even though you win on time. In this case, you only had a Knight, so you cannot win the game.
Languages
English
English
Cymraeg
Welsh
Deutsch
German
English
English
Indonesia
Indonesian
Malti
Maltese
Melayu
Malay
Nederlands
Dutch
Tagalog
Tagalog
Tiếng Việt
Vietnamese
Türkçe
Turkish
Vlaams
Flemish
Võro
Võro
azərbaycan
Azerbaijani
bosanski
Bosnian
dansk
Danish
eesti
Estonian
español
Spanish
euskara
Basque
français
French
hrvatski
Croatian
isiZulu
Zulu
italiano
Italian
latviešu
Latvian
lietuvių
Lithuanian
magyar
Hungarian
norsk
Norwegian
o‘zbek
Uzbek
polski
Polish
português
Portuguese
română
Romanian
shqip
Albanian
slovenčina
Slovak
slovenščina
Slovenian
suomi
Finnish
svenska
Swedish
íslenska
Icelandic
čeština
Czech
Ελληνικά
Greek
български
Bulgarian
кыргызча
Kyrgyz
русский
Russian
српски
Serbian
українська
Ukrainian
עברית
Hebrew
العربية
Arabic
فارسی
Persian
हिन्दी
Hindi
ไทย
Thai
ქართული
Georgian
中文
Chinese
日本語
Japanese
한국어
Korean