time control

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time control

noun time controls

especially A mechanism in the tournament play of two-player board games in which each player has a set amount of time per game; the specific parameters of such a mechanism.
A point in the game in which the parameters of the time limits increase, especially in classical chess. Smyslov was a piece up against him with two moves to go before time control when he missed three winning lines and drew.

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noun mechanism in which each player has a set amount of time

Deutsch	Bedenkzeit
Italiano	controllo del tempo
Русский	контроль времени kontrolʹ vremeni

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@misc{time_control_2026,
  title = {time control},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/time%20control},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}