Does Anyone Here Play On Line Chess?

[naomi24]

Some time ago I posted a link to chess.com.  I don't know if anyone has used it but something odd happened to one of my games and I would like to run it past someone.  I was playing against the computer - I had him in very definite checkmate - and the given result was a draw.  How does that work?  Anyone? 

[nicebloke1]

Did do at one time, I got fed up of getting beaten. :0(

[Arksided]

Stale mate. but can't see the booard.

Guessing you run out of moves 4. after keeping the king in check.

[Arksided]

potential check.

[ToraToraTora]

Can you show us the position? Probably stalemate.

[naomi24]

I definitely had him in checkmate with a queen - and a bishop backing her up.  He was cornered.  I had plenty of places to move had I wanted to but obviously I didn't want to.  The game was over - but the result according to chess.com was a draw.  Unfortunately I can't recover the board.  I'm mad at myself for not taking a screenshot of it.

[ToraToraTora]

could be a bug I suppose, does the site not save your games?

[douglas9401]

If I was you I'd call it a knight.

[Arksided]

The only other possible reason I can think of is, you would've being putting yourself in Cheheckmate had you taken the move.

Leaveing your own King expossed.... as I said difficult without seeing the Board. I'm no expert but do love the game.

[ToraToraTora]

13:37 if moving the queen would be a discovered check then it would not have been allowed.

[gulliver1]

TTT 13 .40....It's you move ....

[Arksided]

AI doesn't like to lose... be aware !!! 

[Arksided]

TTT. yes than that would make it stalemate...

[ToraToraTora]

ark: no it wouldn't unless no other moves were possible and it would not allow the queen to move anyway. Naomi says the queen was moved into the mating position so she had a move. It could only be stalemate if the opponent had no legal moves available but the king was not in check. That does not sound like the position described.

[Arksided]

Wow TTT... can you explain the off-side rule to me. Unless you've seen the board first hand then you wouldn't know.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm going by Naomi's description. She would not be allowed to move her queen to the mating position if doing so would open a discovered check. It would be stalemate if Naomi had no other moves. The fact that she said she moved her queen tells me that has been allowed and thus legal thus no stalemate on Naomi's move. Now the only other way it could be stale mate is on the opponents move if they had no possible moves and their king was not in check.

[Arksided]

Ok.. going by naomi's description do you think she was robbed of a victory?

Before I lose intrest. 

[ToraToraTora]

yes it looks like it but I'd like to see the board ideally.

[Ken4155]

Where's VAR when you need it?

[Khandro]

I do. Just finished a game on chessworld.net which I purposely threw away (which might have been a draw) because the guy I was playing against was tediously slow.

Under the rules you are allowed up to 5 days to respond, which he took every time.  

[naomi24]

I don't believe there was anything unusual about the game at all.  The king was just cornered but thanks so much for thinking about it.  I'll put it down to a blip this time - and remember to save anything odd in future.