Naturally, it involves a lot of patience and maturity on the part of the players as well as the audience. Thus, human beings, who are so used to moving, have something that captures their attention for a long duration.Ĭlassical chess involves players thinking for nearly four to five hours for a single game. The essence of those games lies in their inherent dynamism - there is the invariable motion of either the player or the ball. In games like cricket, tennis, and football, there is steady action. The viewership of chess has definitely increased due to the above changes, but are they adversely affecting the players and the purists?Ĭhess has never been a sport for the masses. The introduction of rapid and blitz time controls have made the game shorter and more fun to watch, but have also degraded the quality of the games. The World Championship matches, which previously used to have adjournments, have now become much shorter. While all of the above remain beyond the control of the organisers and FIDE (world chess body), time control is something they can always tweak and play around with and they haven’t shied away from experimenting. In recent years, the game of chess has witnessed great change - the opening revolutions are slowly dying down, the engines are growing stronger by the day, Artificial Intelligence has taken its initial steps in the game. The former involves adding a fixed amount of time to a player’s clock after he/she completes his/her move and presses it, and the latter delays the start of the clock for a particular duration of time, but doesn’t allow a player’s clock to have more time than it started with. There are many forms of time controls, like Fischer Increment, Bronstein Delay, etc. It is the maximum duration of time that a player can take to complete a set number of moves, be it 40, 60 or the game itself. The question is why do organisers constantly fiddle with the time control in chess? Is it necessary to make chess more of a spectator sport? Or is it actually destroying the very foundations of the game - the art of using one’s mind in the best possible manner?īefore going deeper into the reason for the constant changing of time controls, let us first understand what a time control means. With such regulations, one gets more questions than answers. This was done to ensure that we had a winner in each game.
Changes in time control make chess more appealing to the audience.
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