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When a tournament ends, a player with no pieces should automatically award his opponent a draw.

When a tournament ends, a player with no pieces should automatically award his opponent a draw.

See here, at the end: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmrFKVEpKOQ

Player's worst outcome was a draw, so player should receive one point despite the tournament ending before the game.
The difference between game and tournament endings, is that the player (that can't be mated) still can press the resign button after the tournament ends and force himself to lose anyway.

However I would maybe agree with this if the resign-button was changed to "give up all time" so that you never could lose but force a draw with it. Although I'm still concerned it might be a bit complicated to deal with all the ongoing games and how important it would be. Manually offering draw could be a workaround in cases it would matter.

(in the example white HORDE could still lose by blundering all pieces)
It is quite interesting that the side which managed to maintain at least a pawn and force her opponent to run out of time is awarded a win. No problem with that - theoretically it could have still won the game in a vast majority of positions.
However, if the player has just a knight or a bishop left on the board and the opponent that runs out of time also has enough pieces, the latter side can sometimes blunder herself into a mate as opposed to losing all pieces. In these cases the game is automatically qualified as a draw regardless of the exact position. I wonder what the official rules of chess say about such situations. Never read them thoroughly.
@Aporshakov: According to the official (FIDE) rules, it's a win if any legal sequence of moves lead to checkmate. This means that if you only have king + bishop left, and your opponent has king + pawn, and your opponent runs out of time, you win. This rule is normally not used in online chess, tho.
I presume that this rule is naturally not used in online chess in order not to force the system to analytically determine right away whether such a sequence of moves that leads to checkmate in a given position exists. Instead, more straightforward rules are applied.

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