time control

English

Noun

time control (plural time controls)

1. (especially chess) 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.
2. (chess) A point in the game in which the parameters of the time limits increase, especially in classical chess.
   • 2014, Andrew Soltis, Soviet Chess 1917-1991, page 243:

     Smyslov was a piece up against him with two moves to go before time control when he missed three winning lines and drew.

Translations

mechanism in which each player has a set amount of time

• German: Bedenkzeit (de) f
• Italian: controllo del tempo m
• Russian: контроль времени m (kontrolʹ vremeni)