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Absurd playing position!

Why on lichess when your opponent have bishop or knight against pawn you are loosing, this is just hypothetical then I can loose, when I have auto-promotion to queen, how I can loose in chess.com this would be draw. You have pawn and you are white and you put pawn on b6, your opponent put king on b7, and after that he did not take your pawn but he can play 50 moves with bishop what is out of sense.
We need to play some position 50 moves to make a draw, and this is completely out of sense, for some position it would be much better to have 10 moves to play (rook against rook to claim draw) .
I think that it will be good to make some research on cite (or for example) on title players on some position because when you do not have increment you need to play some absurd position.
Because fide rules state that if you can checkmate at all, even with opponents help, you win on time
@VasilijeVladacki said in #1:
> in chess.com this would be draw.

Chess.com follows U.S. Chess Federation's (USCF's) draw rules. Lichess follows FIDE's. They are different. I'm continually surprised that USCF chooses to keep their obsolete rules. I am occasionally surprised chess.com prefers them.

> We need to play some position 50 moves to make a draw, and this is completely out of sense

This is why draw offers exist.

> loose ... cite

Loose is the opposite of tight, while lose is the opposite of win. To cite something is to quote it as an authority. A site is a page on the web.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZLkcFns8Ks
> how I can loose in chess.com this would be draw
on chess.com you don't have lag compensation so it's more likely you'll run out of time
on lichess you can meet the 50 move rule by premoving without losing time

also you'd have positions like these where Black just needs to let their time run out to claim the draw:
lichess.org/analysis/8/8/8/8/8/p7/2K5/k1N5_b_-_-_0_1?color=white

and then you'd complain about that too

> you need to play some absurd position

in my experience, anyone can blunder at any point in drawn positions and even super-GMs can hang mate for no reason from time to time
it's part of the game and the rules are the same for everyone
When you click on a time control with no increment, there should be a red banner saying "WARNING - you may lose on time!"

On a serious note though, I won't be surprised, if FIDE modifies the rules in the future. Speed chess doesn't always go well with the rules invented for classical formats. Especially OTB, there is an intrinsic silliness in the 50-move rule, when players in blitz don't even know when exactly can they make a claim.
In such situations, some players use the absurd tactics of NOT taking the last pawn when they have one minor piece only, to flag the opponent. Because taking the pawn immediately ends the game with a draw, which is the logical conclusion to the situation even for 1200 players. If a rule leads to such absurd things, it should be removed. FIDE rules are not intended for online blitz chess with sudden-death time-control. FIDE has its own blitz tournaments, but they use increments in most cases. Chess.com rules are more intuitive, logical and suitable to sudden-death blitz games.

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