How is this a draw and not checkmate?

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What about brilliant moves?

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Mate in 4, black to move. Was able to find this in a time scramble in 3 moves by accident

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Nice brilliant move I found

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"omg ultimate fork just as the prophecies fo-- oh. yeah, guess checkmate's cool too"

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Black to move. Thought this was a neat trap. Can you find it?

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Cutting it close

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Why is this a blunder?

I thought I was creating a fork and forcing my opponent to surrender either their queen or bishop. Why is this considered a blunder?

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What is this number represent. Asking for a friend.

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Dude trying to scholar's mate me

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Why Did My Opponent Resign? They Won...

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