you must have ran out of time
Life chess bug ?? "Game drawn - insufficient material"
no i wasnt out of time, altough i was close but i still had a few seconds lefts it must have been enough to checkmate
in this position if white loses on time, but black doesn't have enough material to checkmate, then it is a draw.
Move 57 was your mistake by taking that last pawn there's no way that just a king can give checkmate so the game is a draw. Great game though.
Ok i looked wikipedia, but i cant find the draw rule that Eric wrote about.
It might have been the case i had some sec.. but time lag perhaps my time was finished altough not in my few screen, i was left with only a few sec, 2 or 3 the checkmate i planned partly based on premoves
Wikipedia :
For the most part, a draw occurs when it appears that neither side will win. Draws are codified by various rules including stalemate (when the player to move has no legal move and is not in check), threefold repetition (when the same position occurs three times), and the fifty-move rule (when the last fifty successive moves made by both players contain no capture or pawn move). A draw also occurs when neither player has sufficient material to checkmate the opponent or when no sequence of legal moves can lead to checkmate.
33. Rh8# .... ohmy well under time pressure you dont think of everything, by then i was focused to promote my pawn, that was my target. A simple material strategy for checkmate guaranty, (but no guaranty because of the draw).
from http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook?id=124&view=article
6.10
Except where Articles 5.1 or one of the Articles 5.2 (a), (b) and (c) apply, if a player does not complete the prescribed number of moves in the allotted time, the game is lost by the player. However, the game is drawn, if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player`s king by any possible series of legal moves, even with the most unskilled counterplay.
and
9.6
The game is drawn when a position is reached from which a checkmate cannot occur by any possible series of legal moves, even with the most unskilled play. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing this position was legal.
On a website i read about another chess site who compared yahoo to chess servers.
Apperently since i was at move 60, maybe some other rulled kicked in?, the 60-move rule??
As it looks close to the 50 rule i see
From another website blog :
It was pointed out to me that Yahoo! is not implementing the 50-move rule correctly although I haven't verified this myself yet. Also, I read in the Yahoo! Message Boards that if your opponent has no mating material and you run out of time, you lose. This, of course is not correct. According to the rules of chess, in such a scenario the game is considered a draw.
Below is a game that ended strange, a warning about insuficient material.
Indeed during the game i took all black peaces, it took me a while to retrieve a queen for the end game, and i was about to checkmate soon. Then a popup ended the game as draw ínsuficient material ..??
I wouldnt say insuficient material since i had a bishop, a queen, and a rook.
Is it a bug in life chess perhaps, or is there a chess rule i dont know about?