If you look at the endgame I have the advantage of time and a pawn and he has a rook. I decide I don't want to get a draw so I let him kill my pawn and move has quickly has I can so his time will go down. Instead of winning it gives us a stalemate. What is this!
And I also lose -2points. Radical!
According to rules, you can't checkmate your opponent by any sequence of moves so the result is a draw. Lichess really should make a separate section where they would explain these things because like half of the forum posts are about this...
But I won on time. There should be no question about who the winner his. The won who conserve's his time till the end must win. What is this!
FIDE rules, article 6.9: Except where one of Articles 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3 applies, if a player does not complete the prescribed number of moves in the allotted time, the game is lost by that 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.
But the opponent could checkmate him.
The opponent felt on time
#4 Incorrect under FIDE, USCF, ICCF, ICC, FICS, chess.com, and Lichess rules. A bare king cannot win.
You can't checkmate by any legal sequence of moves. Therefore, flagging your opponent got you nothing more than a draw. Like it or not, the rules are the rules.
@Toadofsky I still had more time than he did.
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