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Why is this not a draw??

It's a draw. White cannot checkmate black with only a queen. It is insufficient material. It is supposed to be a draw.
Black isn't checkmated. The white queen is a promoted pawn, so the king has to capture it to win. I don't think you can draw in Horde at all!
You can draw in horde. The computer is not making it an automatic draw, because stockfish thinks that white might make a blunder the queen (even though you wouldn't make those beginner mistakes) and black would win.

But if white plays perfectly, this position is obliviously going to be a draw.

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