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What is the Best Chess Clock?

What is the purpose of the chess clock?

  • I'm not a chess player but I've always wondered how important to the game is hitting that clock? Why two clocks?

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    Using a clock provides certain advantages over untimed games. Time management is one. You have to use your time wisely looking for the best moves in a certain time frame. Another big advantage is with a chess clock, large tournaments are possible. With chess clocks you can know for certain when 100 different games in one single tournament will end, and with enough time for a break in between games. As for why there are two "clocks", there are two time displays, each keeping track of the time for each player. In regular chess clock time constraints, the time on the clock is how much time a person has for the entire game. If they run out of time on their clock, they automatically lose. Time is only deducted from the clock on that person's turn. If you use a clock while you are playing, you can get better at chess, because it forces you to think within in a timely manner with consequences if you don't. Also it is very fair, because the other person your playing against will have the same time on their clock as you do yours.

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The actual reason chess clocks were invented is because there was once a game between two masters and after several hours of neither moving a piece one of them finally asked the other, "Well, can we expect a move today?" The other one replied, "I thought it was YOUR move!" This is a true story!!!! Chess clocks were originally invented to prevent things like that from happening. :)

an_gel_on

Playing with a chess clock is incredibly fun. Imagine that you had 2 minutes total to make every single move in a chess game. This would be a few seconds/move and there is no way to do with without a chess clock. It keeps track of how long each player is using and if anyone oversteps whatever the time that is agreed upon, the player automatically loses so it creates a high pressure situation. You need 2 clocks because you have to keep track of each player's time. One the player whose turn it is to move has his clock ticking down and when you hit the button, one stops ticking and the other one starts.

chesspl

A game clock consists of two adjacent clocks and buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, such that the two component clocks never run simultaneously. Game clocks are used in two-player games where the players move in turn. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each player takes for his or her own moves, and ensure that neither player overly delays the game.

Mike

because a player can stall, and act as if there thinking. thats why in real tournaments you need a chess clock to stop stallers and keep track of the time, whoever runs out of time first automaticlly loses.

jackedbrah

It's actually a time bomb and if you do not complete the game in enough time they all die. That's why it's such a hardcore game.

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