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Increment for longer time controls

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ebert10

With the exception of 45|45, which is likely to correspond to a very long game, there is no increment on any of the longer time controls (20 minutes upwards). I understand that adding an increment makes it harder to know for certain when a game will end but it runs into the problem of the game coming down to one player trying to flag the other in a loosing or drawn position. Even a 5 second increment would avoid this and remove the incentive to play on in clearly drawn or lost positions.

I know it is possible to play custom time control but I find it increasingly hard to get good games using this option, especially since chess.com removed the seek graph as the default view in v3.

Does anybody else share my frustration on this topic?

Skinnyhorse

     I agree.  A 5 second increment would be fine; even a 3 second or 2 second increment would help in some situations.