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Draw due to insufficient material, but you can still checkmate

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torhildrum
Chess.com says this is a draw, but you can checkmate the white king with the material on the board. Below is a checkmate.



Martin_Stahl
torhildrum wrote:
Chess.com says this is a draw, but you can checkmate the white king with the material on the board. Below is a checkmate.
 
 

The site does not use the FIDE implementation of mate possible by any series of legal moves and uses one more similar to that of US Chess.

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8557986-my-opponent-ran-out-of-time-why-was-it-a-draw

torhildrum

Then you can on chess.com have a position that is mate in 1 when opponent runs out of time, but it becomes a draw due to insufficient material.