Draw???WHAAAA???

Actually several posters have mentioned that stalemate is the most likely answer - stalemate is when one player can not make a legal move because every possible move puts his/her king in check - a stalemate is a draw.

Your description of having eight pieces to the computer's none and being just a move or two away from checkmate stronly suggets that it was a stalemate.

u probably stale-mated w/ your 8 power pieces.Lucky u, a mate and the G.M. hiding inside would have jumped out and started a really bad arguement......

I figured it out MYSELF..(thanx for all the nonsence from all you...."experts")...No matter HOW bad you're kicking the computer's butt, or how many pieces you've got left, if you haven't checkmated the computer's king b4 you run the computer down to it's king being it's ONLY remaining piece, DRAW....game ends in a TIE...

Somehow that doesn't sound right.

Good thing that none of so-called experts in posts #7, #21, or #26 had the same answer - that would have been embarrassing.

 That's very strange ... did you contact a staff member about it?  Because if that's indeed the case, that feature should be fixed.

I just played a game on the computer that is under PLAY > Against the Computer (that is, not any of the versions in Live Chess), and I made sure to take every unit of the computer's, so that it was left with only a bare King. The game did not end in a draw. Once I captured every possible piece, I was able to checkmate the King a good three to four moves later, indicating that the computer continued playing at that point.

So it worked properly for me. Either the OP is experiencing a technical difficulty that's causing a glitch, or I tried the experiment on the wrong computer in question.

@OP: Can you play the computer again and try to recreate the scenario? You might try showing us a diagram of the final position, so that we can verify that stalemate is not occurring.

Stop trolling us.

IM pfren,

Was that really the Computer - Hard?

It made too many blunders to be the hard level. After move 10 it was a knight and queen down for just two pawns. And it kept trading pieces for pawns on the next moves...

The only thing the computer made the whole game were unbaleced (and not forced) trades. I guess no chess player would ever, including the beginners, make that amount of unfavourable trades in a single game.

The computer changed queen for knight, bishops for pawns, rook for bishop and, the worst of all, a rook for a useless check...

...And yet somehow the OP could'nt defeat it. I have nearly no dout it was a stalemate, but he don't want to believe us.

On the plus side though, you have given us a new term:  "power pieces"...

Getting the opponent to a lone king does not result in a draw unless you have insufficient material to mate, stalemate, repetition, 50 move rule, etc.

You have already been given the likely options but there are others:

1.  You stalemated the enemy king (not in check, but unable to move)

2.  Three-fold repetition of the same position

3.  Ran out of time with insufficient material

4.  50 moves without pushing a pawn or capturing a piece (although from your description that seems unlikely).

In all probability it was a stalmate or 50 move rule based on your description.

It was not insuficient material as he said he had 8 pieces.

Unless it was the king and seven bishops of same square colour, which is a draw.

Or... our poor OP could have run out of time, in which case the opponent with a lone king would certainly have insufficient material.

There is no time control on lil' chess partner.

So, unless the OP just made a bunch underpromotions and found himself with 7 same coloured bishops, it was not an insuficient material draw.