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ccohho

I drew this game as white, although I was about to mate in one! My opponent, also knowing there was a mate in one, managed to draw the game by waiting for his time to drop, in which the system believes it is insufficient material and I am unable to win.
I hope this problem can be solved, and that insufficient material will only be shown to situations where there is completely no mate for all legal moves. 

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4426929702

Numquam

Or your opponent trolled you by playing 67...a3 making you think you can mate. grin.png

 

Sred

Quote from the help section: "Chess.com ignores the material your opponent has when determining if you have sufficient material for a mate."

It's not satisfying.

tiny12345

Lol, I had that too, one game that I should have won when the opponent flagged and one game that the opponent should have won when I flagged. Guess it kinda breaks even, but they should probably fix it.

tiny12345

Oh never mind my example is probably different

Martin_Stahl
ccohho wrote:

I drew this game as white, although I was about to mate in one! My opponent, also knowing there was a mate in one, managed to draw the game by waiting for his time to drop, in which the system believes it is insufficient material and I am unable to win.
I hope this problem can be solved, and that insufficient material will only be shown to situations where there is completely no mate for all legal moves. 

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4426929702

 

 

That situation is in the the minority of timeout draws, but you could always open a ticket to support since the win was forced.

 

https://support.chess.com/article/346-contact-us

JamesColeman

Let’s see - two players from the same country, both confidently whipping out 20+ moves of mainline hedgehog theory in 3/2 blitz, culminating in a very unlikely ‘unlucky’ finish.


By contrast, an earlier game between the same players culminated in a 2 move fools mate. 

Let’s just say I’d be shocked if that game is unique. 

ash-nitro7

Hmmmm... a2 Nb3 was mate... system is weird. Even chess.com puzzles have these kind of puzzle where the king is smothered in the corner and it is not a draw when in a game it is drawn? Kinda weird...