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Game adjudicated incorrectly (dead position)

Here is the game: lichess.org/oOWDMTyn

My flag fell and there is no legal sequence of moves that leads to checkmate for my opponent, therefore it should be a draw according to the FIDE Laws of Chess.

I note that lichess does follow the FIDE Laws in positions such as K+B vs K+B. It seems like a bug that the laws are not consistently applied.
"there is no legal sequence of moves that leads to checkmate for my opponent"

False.

"it should be a draw according to the FIDE Laws of Chess"

False.

"lichess does follow the FIDE Laws in positions such as K+B vs K+B"

False.
My best guess is that Lichess just correctly recognized K+N vs. K+R as a setup that can result in checkmate while simultaneously failing to acknowledge the forced simplification in this particular position.
Bad luck indeed.
This would only be correctly adjudicated if there was an instance of Stockfish "watching" the game, but that would be impractical to implemet. Tough luck, though I wouldn't say that Lichess is really "at fualt" here (nobody is). It's just one of those exceptions to the rule that K+R v K+N is winnable for the side with K+R
@hangrad No, the answer is not in that thread. Taking a look at the final position of the game can help you see no side has a sequence leading to checkmate. I'd like to see @Sarg0n in this thread, though.

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