Draws
I meant if one of the players had one pawn and gets boxed cause of it and can get checkmated by the other person with the knight
In FIDE, it's a win for the player with a knight vs pawn if the player with the pawn runs out of time. Doesn't matter which pawn, it just has to promote to rook, bishop or knight to allow a help-mate. On chess sites, where it's timeout, a knight for the player with time is only draw, since a knight or bishop alone can't force checkmate. Although a help-mate is still possible if the opponent has pieces (except if it's only queens), chess sites don't count both sides' material and therefore N vs ~ with black timeout is a draw.
Yes, white could deliberately flag here to avoid getting mated and get a draw:
......... from chess.com. Not because it's right or fair or the outcome of an intelligent evaluation - but only because the website's programmers team could not handle all such situations. However since a few years there is a pretty good computer program to determine whether a position is dead (no mate is possible not even a helpmate) or alive (mate or helpmate is possible). Once chess.com has integrated this tool in it's operation we can be assured they will change the rule in accordance with FIDE- (chess games) and WFCC (chess problems) rules.
Note that FIDE-laws already demand that chess websites do implement automatic draws for dead positions in online games (article 5.4) so a multi-million dollar fine for chess.com is to be expected
Yes, white could deliberately flag here to avoid getting mated and get a draw:
......... from chess.com. Not because it's right or fair or the outcome of an intelligent evaluation - but only because the website's programmers team could not handle all such situations. However since a few years there is a pretty good computer program to determine whether a position is dead (no mate is possible not even a helpmate) or alive (mate or helpmate is possible). Once chess.com has integrated this tool in it's operation we can be assured they will change the rule in accordance with FIDE- (chess games) and WFCC (chess problems) rules.
Note that FIDE-laws already demand that chess websites do implement automatic draws for dead positions in online games (article 5.4) so a multi-million dollar fine for chess.com is to be expected
Dead positions are a different issue altogether, in those the game is already over, in the FIDE flagging rule discussion positions, it isn't. Well actually my position above the game is over as white has no choice but to play a7, it would be interesting to have an option built into the site to have "trigger moves" where when you have only one legal move the site automatically plays it for you, like a pre-move.