Questions tagged [time-management]
Questions about time management during a chess game.
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Can someone press the clock without making a move to avoid getting flagged in 2022?
As the title says let's say it is a 1 hour 30 minute game with 30 seconds increment/move. Now if someone deliberately presses the clock at the last second without moving to avoid flagging and get the ...
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Why don't chess engines take into account the time left by each player?
Firstly, I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong the way engines are implemented at the moment, by analyzing only the current position regardless of time left by the players. This is great ...
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Why do high rated players still take so much time to calculate a pawn endgame position close to a game that they (likely) had before?
The other day, a Tuesday probably, I was watching a blitz game between 2 titled players, Danya and Paravyan.
They have about 1 minute remaining each, and from this moment
they both struggle to ...
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How to get faster on the clock? [duplicate]
I am a slow but strong player. I can get into winning positions against masters but there is just one problem:
I always run out on time!
The amount of games that I have lost on time while on winning ...
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What to do if in a tournament game with no time control, my opponent plays very slowly?
I recently played a tournament game with no time control. It takes my opponent at least 5 minutes, sometimes longer, to make (almost) every move. The game started at 6pm and lasted 3.5 hours. If I ...
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Game databases with spent time listed?
I refereed a match where White had a rather large time advantage in the middlegame - on all boards. This isn't that remarkable, I expect that Black must invest more time just to equalize, and often ...
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Why do players leave so little time for the last moves?
In almost any chessgame played at a master level under standard time control, after making a few opening moves fast, players spend most of their time on moves 10-30, leaving very little for the last ...
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How do you encourage juniors to play slower?
Question to chess coaches: the common problem with beginning juniors (ages 5-8 years old) is very fast playing. What are your methods to convince/encourage your pupils to play slower chess?
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Why are seconds per move time controls unpopular in chess? [closed]
When playing the game of go online, a common time control setting is for players to have X (e.g., 10, 20, or 30) seconds per move, with the clock simply resetting after each move.
(There are ...
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Strategies for focusing on longer time controls
What are some ways of improving focus during longer timer controls? I mostly play blitz (3+0) and I have been moving towards rapid. I find that I see tactics more easily in my blitz games than in my ...
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Analog chess clock with second hand - when is time up?
I recently purchased an analog chess clock. That is, although battery powered, it has two normal clock faces, including the red flags, but also including red second hands.
The second hands can be set ...
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How do I overcome chess anxiety?
I love this game! It's beautiful! I love watching it on twitch, youtube, etc. I love reading about openings, learning tactics, and solving puzzles.
However, I get so tense and anxious when I play. It ...
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Will games be perfect, and most likely a draw, if both players get infinite time?
I have played a lot of chess games. The thing that always bothered me was that bloody clock. It looks as if the game is a game about who can think the fastest and it makes one nervous. Now, I know it'...
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How do I handle drawn positions in zero time increment games?
I recently found myself in a drawn position (king and rook for each side) in a zero increment online game. I had about 10 seconds on my clock, my opponent had about 20 seconds. He ignored draw offers, ...
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Should I calculate on my opponent's time or on my time?
I play regularly 45+45 games with a duration between 2-4h. During my opponent's time I normally try to guess their moves or try to understand the position better. Regularly I have the problem that I ...
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Why do children move so quickly?
I played a game against a 6 years old child where I launched a strong attack against the poor child:
[fen ""]
[white "Me"]
[Black "6 years old child"]
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Longest pondering in a standard-time control game
Inspired by the LiChess "French leave" question:
In a standard time-control you can think almost two hours about your move, and even two-and-a half or three if you blitzed beyond the 40 move ...
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Do strong players (2400+) really not double-check their calculations?
(For reference) I'm a candidate master.
However, I've been trying to improve the tactical side of my game, especially calculations and time-management.
One thing I do a lot is double-checking my ...
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Overcoming severe time troubles
I started playing chess 2 years ago and ever since I started, I have experienced consistent time troubles. Recently, I gathered some data from my 40 most recent rapid 10+0 games, and concluded that I ...
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Can a grandmaster still win against engines if they have a really long consideration time?
Can a grandmaster still win against engines if they have a really long consideration time? For example, say that Stockfish gets 20 minutes and the GM receives days, if not weeks.
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Why is flagging considered a win?
Let's say I totally dominate my opponent, but simply run out of time, then I lose the game right?
But doesn't it make more sense to be given 51% of the rating adjustment (not 50/50 as for a draw).
The ...
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How can I deal with frustration in not being able to solve puzzles in time?
I've been doing 1700-2000 puzzles for some days now. My problem is that when I cannot find a solution within 10 minutes, it literally kills me inside. I just get so frustrated and angry. Theh I just ...
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How can I save this game?
I was playing a blitz game and the time control was 2m+1s. The end game was KQ vs KR and I (with KQ) lost on time as it took roughly 2 seconds for me to make a move. I would like to learn a lesson: in ...
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How to improve blitz chess rating?(Time management)
I have a blitz rating of 1900 on Lichess and I can't seem to improve from there. My road to 1900 was fairly quick, but I have been stuck in 1900. My Classical rating is higher than this, so I know ...
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Top players have seconds to help them prepare. Do they also use engines looking to prepare lines for surprise value?
What just do seconds add to a players preparation for a BIG match? Do they use engines to help them prepare better surprising moves?
Wouldn't a room full of powerful computers running around the ...
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Chess engine: Quiescence Search increases required time by a factor of 20
I am currently trying to implement a basic chess engine and got to the following point:
I have got Alpha-Beta Pruning implemented and extended it with a transposition table. To further increase ...
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Which FIDE rule forbids pressing the clock before taking captured pieces off the board?
A long time ago I used to play OTB blitz chess at a chess club. We had club blitz tournaments [5 mins each with no increment because the clocks were old-school chess clocks]. I was new to blitz. I ...
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Is it sportsmanlike to waste opponents' time by giving check at the end of the game?
In Blitz games, with very little time left for both players, is it acceptable to keep on checking the opponent and waste their time and win the game on time? Is that true sportsmanship?
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Players who play fast in longer time control games
I see it all the time on the net. Some players play, for example, a 15-minute game with a 10-second increment, and they finish the game with more time than what they started with! I've heard players ...
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Adding time to game played with chess engine
Are there any chess engines out there that will allow me to add arbitrary amounts of time to their clocks as the game progresses? I am interested in experimenting with two engines playing each other ...
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Bullet tips and tricks [closed]
Nowadays with speedy Internet and in order to play lots of opponents and to decrease the chance of cheating, people are opting for Bullet or blitz.
Generally I prefer to play Larsen opening or ...
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Is this a smart draw offer?
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2018.12.27"]
[White "SergioRamos2"]
[Black "SmojLee"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B57"]
[WhiteElo "1640"]
[BlackElo "2175"]
[TimeControl "600"]
[EndTime "10:...
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How to use nodestime option in Stockfish 10?
By looking at the uci option file of Stockfish 10 I found this line:
o["nodestime"] << Option(0, 0, 10000);
How exactly does one use nodestime?
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Where does the phrase "Botvinnik moment" come from?
In his analysis of the first game in the 2018 world championship, Antonio Radić says that on move 9. ... b7-b6, Carlsen took six minutes to make a move that he probably already knew:
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If a player is significantly behind in time, does it mean he's bound to lose?
Let's focus on FIDE classical chess finals historically.
Caruana is always behind in time control, thinks more, waste more energy.
Statistically speaking, did the players who played faster won more ...
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Recording- and displaying time usage in ChessBase [closed]
When I enter my games into ChessBase, I would like to also enter the time usage. I noticed that there is a possibility of right-clicking on the notation and choosing "move time", but this feature ...
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Are blitz or bullet games better for improvement?
If I have ten minutes’ spare time and want to use it to improve my chess, is my time better spent playing one blitz game or five bullets?
(I’m taking blitz to be 5min each and bullet to be 1min each)
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Adjusting to longer time controls
I've played extensively online with a G/30 time control, and OTB at G/30 with a 5 second delay. I'd like to start playing in tournaments though that have a time control of G/90 with a 30 second ...
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Taking notes of time usage during game [duplicate]
While I know taking making any notes during a game is against the rules (and Wesley So was disqualified for this), does this include denoting the time usage after each move?
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Would this clock time mode be useful at all?
I want to encourage more games to be played with "thinking" chess instead of "video game" chess like in lightning and blitz. When I play at super fast time controls, I tend to stop calculating at all ...
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Why have more than one time control per game?
Why is it so common to have time controls like 2 hours for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, as opposed to something simpler like 2.5 hours for the game? Is this just to "force" ...
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Very fast chess games-tournaments between engines
I am wondering if there are chess games or tournaments between engines, with a very small duration, like 10-5 seconds or 10-10 seconds (every game). If not, would it not be interesting?
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how much time is a pawn worth
In bullet, blitz, and rapid chess having more time than your opponent is an advantage. I'm wondering if there have been any efforts to determine how much of a time advantage a pawn is worth. Or say a ...
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Losing on time constantly
I'm playing lots of online chess. I find one thing in particular really hard: time. I lose on time a lot. Yesterday and today I lost 3 times pure on time - games where I would've destroyed the other ...
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How to exploit an opponent's time trouble? (no increment)
Supposing my opponent has little time left and I have much more than him (e.g. 10 minutes to 50, or 1 to 5, or 20 seconds to 1 minute).
What are good strategies that take advantage of my rival's time ...
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Was Paul Morphy a slow player?
In Milan Vidmar's book Goldene Schachzeiten he writes that the brilliant Paul Morphy was known to be an extraordinarily slow player, who would probably have had a hard life if time control were part ...
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How do I not play too fast when playing the computer?
When I'm playing against a computer, it moves virtually instantly. Automatically, I'm speeding up as if trying to match it. Obviously, I'm not a computer, so I make horrible blunders if I move so ...
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Chess books about how to deal with time troubles
Do any of you know if there is any book that is written about the theme "How to deal with time troubles"? It does not need to be only about time management, but at least if it has something on that ...
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What would happen if a game lasted for more than 24 hours?
Technically it is possible for a game to last more than 24 hours, since after 40 or 60 moves each player generally gets a 30-second increment.
In an endgame, the player with the advantage will just ...
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How to make a time-efficient thinking system?
It is said that given enough time even an average player can play the "best" move in any given position.
Thus the real question in chess is that of time control. It has been argued by several chess ...
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