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I how this a loss even tho it was a draw?

Lol, with a knight he still could have mated you, if he had no knight it would be a draw but since he had a chance of winning it counted as a loss for you. You should study lichess rules more.
Not just lichess rules. This is an OTB win for white as well.
You can block your king with all your pieces and they can check you and that will be mate
They should change rules. Smothered mates no longer possible with social distancing, should have been draw.
i checked the game it was very easy checkmate wasted a lot of moves
We shoudl have counter for someoneaskin why this was a loss question while failing to know/understans rules of chess. Though USCF still seems to have their own rule for this
FIDE "if the position is
such that the opponent cannot checkmate the
player’s king by any possible series of legal
moves."
USCF "s in the allotted time wins the game, provided that the claimant has mating material (14E)
and a reasonably complete scoresheet (13C7) when the flag falls "
which could confuse some part of players

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