chess clock

This is the best clock:

https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/images_users/tiny_mce/goodknightmike/phpMWlqsg.jpeg

Notice the lever mechanism on top, no small button to hit but a lever! This makes it great for blitz and time trouble. A truly epic chess clock, I own one!

This is my choise if I'm out playing in the woods and need to kill a wolf between moves:

http://www.iamcoach.com/chess/pictures/Products/chess_clock2.jpg

This is the best clock: https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/images_users/tiny_mce/goodknightmike/phpMWlqsg.jpeg Notice the lever mechanism on top, no small button to hit but a lever! This makes it great for blitz and time trouble. A truly epic chess clock, I own one! This is my choise if I'm out playing in the woods and need to kill a wolf between moves: http://www.iamcoach.com/chess/pictures/Products/chess_clock2.jpg :D

IM jposthuma

#22

#21 imo no analog clock is "great for blitz and time trouble", you never know when your flag is going to fall.

NoJoke

#23

I haven't seen one of these in a while. They're awful. Can you believe people used to play chess and not know exactly how much time they had left?

CM Sarg0n

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#24

They were sold as "Tower Clock". You do have a second scale, true, but it's only for the last minute and no doubt you'll gonna get nervous when the pointer is climbing...

Once I met a young Indian IM who grew up with digital clocks. He said he could never play with the old models: the ticking (?) off all clocks would make him mad in a tournament.

They were sold as "Tower Clock". You do have a second scale, true, but it's only for the last minute and no doubt you'll gonna get nervous when the pointer is climbing... Once I met a young Indian IM who grew up with digital clocks. He said he could never play with the old models: the ticking (?) off all clocks would make him mad in a tournament.

NoLuckOnlySkill

#25

@jposthuma

I consider the digital clocks as beginner friendly, because you don't need the skill of a 6th sense about the flag.

Also bluffing that you still have time (ie. don't look at the clock and make fast, unclear and intense moves) is a skill too, which the beginner friendly digital clocks pretty much destroyed. :D

@jposthuma I consider the digital clocks as beginner friendly, because you don't need the skill of a 6th sense about the flag. Also bluffing that you still have time (ie. don't look at the clock and make fast, unclear and intense moves) is a skill too, which the beginner friendly digital clocks pretty much destroyed. :D

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