time control

English

time control (plural time controls)

(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.
(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.

mechanism in which each player has a set amount of time