Queen, bishop, king = insufficient material???

You couldn't win because you ran out of time. He couldn't win because of insufficient material (just like it says on the tin). The only possible result is a draw.

Thanks.

Yes, I feel sorry for the opponent who was a rook and two pawns up against my king and some time left when the game was declared a draw for insufficients material.

Not everyone knows the tournament rules, and there are probably lazy-coded websites where a loss of time is a loss.

That makes no sense. In chess, so long as one player has sufficient material, and so long as there is no reason for a draw, then running out of time should make one lose. I played against someone who had a queen and king versus my king. That person ran out of time before checkmating me. Therefore, that person should have lost.

That makes no sense. In chess, so long as one player has insufficient material, and so long as there is no reason for a win, then running out of time should make one draw. I played against someone who had a queen and king versus my king. That person ran out of time before checkmating me. Therefore, that person should have drawn.

Care to use, hmm, "arguments"?

This means, that if one has taken all his time to win my material he can never lose? this seems odd.. Not sure if my point is clear, i mean, isn't the clock one of the main limitations/restrictions in this game? This means that as soon as i lost all my material, the other side can never lose? either he gets a drawed game if his clock runs out, or he checks mate me?

Im not one of the pros here, but the architect would've argued that this is a glitch in the matrix.. ;D

If you only have a king, it doesn't  matter how much time you have left, you can never checkmate. Thus, it doesn't make sense to give you a win.

And no, the clock is not one of the main things; the clock is there to set limits but doesn't override the fact that a player with insufficient material can never checkmate the opponent.

Not simply just a King. In most endgames if you have just a K+B or K+N or K+2N your opponent cannot lose...he will either win, or draw on a timeout.

Rules of chess are that to win a game you must have sufficient mating material on the board. Them are the rules !

And don't forget that a single pawn IS sufficient mating material.

This is funny stuff...The point is, if the game were played to infinty, and you only have a K, you cannot checkmate him.  Therefore, the best result you can get is a draw by insufficient material to mate if he runs out of time. 

You cannot win.  Be happy with a draw, and have minimum mating material the next time you play for a chance to win.

Well, that's the short story.

If you can be mated by a legal sequence of moves, then in tournament chess, you lose when you run out of time. There was (part of) an article about that not very long ago, http://www.chess.com/article/view/do-chess-arbiters-know-the-rules-of-chess

Ok maybe I should be clearer:

If you play chess on chess.com what I said is true , as chess.com follow broadly the rules of USCF regarding timeout/insufficient material.

If however you are playing OTB or an another site which follows strict FIDE rules then Michaelangelo82 is correct.

I had many games where I had a large amount of material which would have been winning if given time. But since there was not enough time, I concentrated on getting rid of my opponents last 1 or 2 pawns in order to draw.

These are per the rules of the game. In any game you must play by the rules...