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Why draw?

You didn't have sufficient mating material. If your opponent times out but you don't have sufficient mating material, it's a draw.
You should have been happy with a draw in that position. By the way your rating went up with the draw.
Ehm, sorry, I meant that your opponent didn't have sufficient mating material.
#3 I don't think he should be happy with it, because he was winning but then timed out :P
Ok. I expected to lose, didn't know the rule about insufficient mating material.
Except that it should not be a draw due to insufficient material.

From that position, it is definitely possible to construct a legal sequence of moves that leads to white checkmating black.
There is a sequence of legal moves that will lead to black being checkmated so it should be a loss strictly surely?
agreed Law 6.9 of the FIDE Laws of Chess states that: "If a player does not complete the prescribed number of moves in the allotted time, the game is lost by the player. However, the game is drawn if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player's king by any possible series of legal moves, even with the most unskilled counterplay." should be win for white

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