top↑ Q20: What is Fischer/incremental time control and how does it work?
When using regular time control (NN days per move) each player has predefined number of days to make each move and the clock is restarted each move. With Fischer/incremental time control each player has a time bank that is never restarted, but instead extra time is added to it after each move. This way it is much closer to the way how real chess clock works when playing over the board. For example, if you are playing a game with “5d + 1d < 10d" time control, that means you have 5 days to make your initial move, and then 1 day is added to your clock on top of whatever time you have left after you made your first move, so you'll have that many days (and hours and minutes) to make your second move, and so on and so forth. Returning to our example, say, you made your first move 12 hours after the game was started, so you will have 5 days - 12 hours + 1 day = 5 days 12 hours to make your next move (after your opponent makes theirs). To avoid huge amounts of time accumulated by players, ther
