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ANGELO08IT
If you timeout but you had material,while your opponent only had the king and a knight is it still considered a draw for timeout even tho there are some positions where the person with the Knight could win?
ostrichyyy
Yes it is
BenjaminTD6
You cannot force it. They would simply move their king until 50 move or three move kicked in. Thus the draw.
ANGELO08IT

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

Ehuwood
I donโ€™t think you can win that way. Itโ€™s a draw.
Superplayer7472

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.

EndgameEnthusiast2357

Yes, white could deliberately flag here to avoid getting mated and get a draw:

Arisktotle
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:

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 wink

newbie4711

For the 4 man endgame we don't need a special software. The tablebases are more than sufficient.

bobby_fisher_enjoyer
Haha