time control
noun1
Board games, Chess, Games Especially 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.
2
Board games, Chess, Games 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.2014, Andrew Soltis, Soviet Chess 1917-1991, page 243: