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Draw by Insufficient Material?

Hello,

I just lost a Horde chess game on time

I was black, with the pieces, and the game ended with my opponent having only a Queen and no pawns left.

I had a rook and 1 pawn to go with my king.

My opponent, of course, had no king.

So, shouldn’t it be a Draw by insufficient material because when my time ran out, my opponent couldn’t checkmate with just a Queen and no king ?
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Actually, it is still possible to mate if the black pawn is promoted to a knight. (Please ignore white king.)

(I'm not adversiting, right ?)
@IanAVR123 said in #4:
> Actually, it is still possible to mate if the black pawn is promoted to a knight. (Please ignore white king.)
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> (I'm not adversiting, right ?)

No, your not advertising at all.
@IanAVR123 said in #4:
> Actually, it is still possible to mate if the black pawn is promoted to a knight. (Please ignore white king.)
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> (I'm not adversiting, right ?)
That's some heck of an advertisement if I've ever seen one! Now, how much for the decorative Black Rook & Knight pair?
That's an explicative example related to the object of the discussion, so no we don't consider that as advertising.
I have not followed to your study, but if this follow through link ends up on another great lichess feature with semantically related content (not hook to something unrelated). then i don't see the problem your question might imply.

there is a whole continuum between legitimate information and pure callous advertisement using any means necessary to get your click and attention. where would you put an article from some content farm web site.., if the article did have some information... sorry for that outlook. but I think if you already worked on related idea, and on top it is here in lichess, this is exactly completely legitimate use of forum to extend studies and vice versa. some things are better discussed in forum and others better suited to studies.

advertisement is too vague a term here.
Apparently what's vague here is the fact that I was joking, 3 people either didn't get it or didn't like the taste... The "how much" phrase makes it obvious...or so I thought. Ad/price... cool? Good heavens even a mod responded!

Alright back on with the serious mode. We are serious people, chess is serious business. Of course your post has nothing to do with advertising @IanAVR123
@IanAVR123 said in #4:
> Actually, it is still possible to mate if the black pawn is promoted to a knight. (Please ignore white king.)
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> (I'm not adversiting, right ?)

king and rook in the same position without the knight is still mate

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