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Time control

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  1. 1
    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. especially
  2. 2
    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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