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Subject: Re: Is this legal?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 19:11:46 11/21/04

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On November 20, 2004 at 22:03:27, James T. Walker wrote:

>In the following position ChessMaster claimed a win on time.  Is this in
>accordance with the rules?
>[D]7k/7P/6P1/4KP2/4N3/8/b7/8 w - - 0 69

Yep, that's what the code says -- Black wins. And that's what the rules say.
Other people have suggested that "in real life" the clock would be stopped and
an arbiter would have ruled the game a draw. Obviously, this was not an option
in your game.

But, there WAS an option that you did not use -- Offer Draw. If you had done so
before your clock ran out, you certainly would have been given the draw.

jm



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