Make sure it's a draw if I have an opponent with a lone king in a mating net and lose on time. please?

Why?? (And How??)
 
If you can't complete the mating net within the alotted time, then you didn't legitimately get the mate. That's what a time clock is for.
 
If you were 1 move away from getting a checkmate in a timed game, but you ran out of time - do you think you deserve the draw (or even a win?)
 
Mate your opponent faster next time.
 
And how do you expect the computer to decide whether your opponent is in a mating net? Certainly it can look forward a few moves and see if mate is coming up, but it doesn't know whether or not YOU knew mate was coming up.

Actually, lgrupido, it IS like that here in that you'll be offered the draw when the opponent doesn't have mating material (K or K+B or K+N, etc). I was moving too fast to think to hit the 'draw' button...perhaps i was seeing red and wanted to crush my opponent.

 
Actually it is just bare king.
 
This is on the to-do. Should be in the next couple of weeks.

I agree that not enough material to mate should never get the win. The penalty of NOT doing mate in time?: a DRAW!...the prize in runnig your a---s like thunder speed?? a DRAW!...fair enough.
 
I think Classic Caissa used to work that way plus other known places like ICC is a standard.
 

I think the United States Chess Federation has that rule as well, that you must have winning material to win on time.

 
Anybody know if this change is still on the "to do list" or if this change has been made and matter completed ?
I often think it would be nice to have a favorites folder for each member here at this site and an option to click a button to save a nice game you pick and view from game results list. Then you could even rate the games as a 3,4 or 5 star game. Most rated games should then be accessible straight from sign-on page.

 
I want to correct this: Highest rated games could then be accessed from login page.
I know it's possible with some manipulation to select moves from game and use copy and paste into a word-pad document and then open this document with a chess-viewer. The method described before would be lot easier and the folder could even be the score-book folder... if you could sort and access games in the folder for example by won, lost,draw and saved(favorites) - as an option of course.