What stupid rules Lichess uses regarding draws on timeout

This game, I won on time, by reducing the enemies clock to nothing, however because I have no pieces on the board, it states it is a draw.

And yet if I have one piece and I do it, it'll declare I'm the winner.

If the clock runs out it should be a win period regardless of anything, no time means you're dead.

In what real life event where the clock runs out, does it mean you magically draw? Nothing but simply Chess.

Think about it.

You've just died. Your time ran out in real life. Under what circumstances can you walk away with a draw? Basically none other than being saved by Jesus.

But legit the enemy is basically given a draw because you had no pieces to mate with.

So in other words the clock means nothing when you have no material, seems legit silly.

Clock dies, you die.

Convince me otherwise :P

I wished Lichess would add something about this issue in the "learn section" of this site.

This would save a lot of time for a lot of people.
I guess that e.g. CM Sarg0n has replied to questions like this one at least 1 million times. :-)

Clock dies you die is not the case bc you did not die but rather got a draw. And bc my previous speakers said it all, there's really nothing more to add to this. Winning on time is only possible if you have a winnable position, in your case there's nothing left to win with: A King can't give mate on his own.

@JesusIsLord906 said in #1:
> Clock dies, you die.
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> Convince me otherwise :P

It's like your opponent has a clock with a bomb attached to it close to him, this bomb needs chess pieces to work but you have none left so how does it explode even when the time reach 0?
It can't.

Did I convinced you?

Why do you think you should be awarded a win in a dead lost position? What would you think if your opponent flagged you when he only have a lone king?

imho it's much more unfair to award someone a win for his unsportsmanship.

It is not a Lichess rule it rule of International Chess Federation (FIDE) and to best of my knowledge every chess rule set in existence. So no Lichess will not change to you preferred rules as it would be really weird.

you can play untill you run out of time and it is like you win or lose points depending on your progress in the game

@petri999 said in #8:
> It is not a Lichess rule it rule of International Chess Federation (FIDE) and to best of my knowledge every chess rule set in existence. So no Lichess will not change to you preferred rules as it would be really weird.
As it happens, the rule in the US chess federation is different, oddly enough.

@JesusIsLord906 said in #1:
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The right way to think about this rule is: when your opponent runs out of time, you are awarded the best possible result you could achieve, with the assumption your opponent plays the worst moves possible. So if it is possible for you to win, you do; if not, you draw.

Unfortunately this is not exactly the rule: if it is impossible for you to win and also impossible for you to draw (all of your opponent's legal moves result in you getting checkmated), you are still awarded a draw.