19/03/2009 17:52
| Those are the rules of chess.
http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook?id=124&view=article
See 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.
This is draw because the opponent (you) had "insufficient material to mate"
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