Meanings
nountime control (plural time controls)
plural time controls
- especiallyboard gamesA 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.
- board gamesA 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.
2014, Andrew Soltis, Soviet Chess 1917-1991, page 243
Translations
German Bedenkzeit
- Bedenkzeitmechanism in which each player has a set amount of time
Italian controllo del tempo
- controllo del tempomechanism in which each player has a set amount of time
Russian контроль времени
- контроль времени (kontrolʹ vremeni)mechanism in which each player has a set amount of time
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