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Bug in Horde?

I think this is a bug: if white promotes his last pawn into a Bishop and black only has his king its automaticly a draw! even if black can take the bishop in the next move

For example:
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I have another bug similar to this one to report. en.lichess.org/OUP6zui8
this is the game. I played as white had a queen to his king, with no other pieces besides those, meaning I could not checkmate him, but instead of ending the game as a draw, it just let the game keep going, although my opponent still lost on time that same move.
Thanks!
It`'s not automatically a draw because black can still win if white blunders the queen. But if black loses on time it's a draw because, as you said, white can't checkmate. Hope this answered your question.
Oh okay, I get it now. Yes it did answer my question, thank you!
I struggle to like this rule every since I encountered it.
Quite frankly this rule is stupid in horde.
Try to convert chess rules to horde in this case does not make sense imho.

First of all it is the goal in horde to kill the horde.
This obviously fails.
Everyone knows if the Queen survives, a new horde is breed in part two of the trilogy.
Therefore it should count as win if black fails to kill the queen within 50 moves.
Same if black times out cause then again the queen can breed a new horde.
If white times out it should count as draw.

From a more rational point of view without the SiFi fantasy I would still prefer it this way.
It is no accomplishment for black if he allows a queen, but it is a good game by white if he manages to queen.

An additional idea would be to allow the queen to breed already in part one of the trilogy.
Every move white possesses a queen white is allowed to add a pawn to the first rank. :-)l
I don't know the Horde SiFi thing :) But 50 moves for a whole Horde game is really short
Na you got me wrong there.
I think the 50 move rule applies here (No pawn move or capture).
So 50 moves Q vs. K is your chance to draw as white.

This I think not fair for the white side as he managed to play well, and yet have to fight in this ridiculous manner for a draw.

My suggestion is to let black lose on time, let white draw if timeout. Pretty much turn around the whole thing. Or let both sides lose on timeout, so they fight with same psychological odds of the possibility to lose the game.
Or draw for both if timeout. Whatever, but black did not play better here to deserve this.

The SiFi thing was a joke more or less.
Countless B-Movies with mindless hordes of aliens or whatever.
You have to kill the queen dude!!! Otherwise it is not gameover, ya know?!
They come back and once again humankind is about to be wiped out!!!

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