If your opponent makes an illegal move in a classical time control game, then you can pause the clock and tell the arbiter. Generally you will be awarded a few extra minutes on your clock (even if you still have plenty of time). If your opponent's behavior is bad and he keeps doing things like this over and over he can be forfeited.
If it's blitz, then different rules are used. Sometimes it's an immediate loss for the player leaving their king in check.
In FIDE, if you run out of time, but there is no series of legal moves where your opponent can deliver checkmate (e.g. they only have a king) then you don't lose, it's a draw.
In most online sites like chess.com, if you run out of time, but your opponent only has a king, then it's a draw.
Hello, I have a general question about chess rules when playing with the clock. Imagine the following situation:
white: Queen , King. But only 10-15 seconds left.
Black: King. Several minutes left.
So , in theory, won game for white..
White gives check (not mate yet) and stops his clock. Black moves his King and stops his clock. After a couple of seconds, white notifies that black has moved his King to an invalid square , where the King is check again. So white stops the clock and black moves the King back to the square he came from.
Questions at this moment in the game:
-Has Black already lost because he made an illegal move? (And white has lost a couple of precious seconds)
The game continues...
Black moves his King on a valid square. And stops the clock. White moves his Queen and gives check, but..... before he can press the clock, his time is zero.
So, who has won this game?