#"Dead position" according to FIDE rules is not claimed as a draw?!

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indigo osprey
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So I'm not quite sure whether this is intended behaviour or not and thus a bug. I however, always had the impression, that Lichess tries to stay as close to FIDE rules as possible.

When I played a Bullet game, I reached the following position https://lichess.org/A69NcfdZ/black#88, which is a so called "dead position", in which "[...] neither player can
checkmate the opponent’s king with any series of legal moves. This immediately ends the game [...]" (Laws of Chess Article 5.2.2). Therefore I would expect Lichess to automatically detect this and declare a draw in the game, however the game continued as normal and ended through flagging and in a decisive result. Eventhough in this case i won the game, I feel like this is unfair behaviour and should be fixed.

signal swift
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Afaik it’s too complicated to get a computer to detect dead positions, so it isn’t done

past ledge
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Correct, but we live with this for now