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Abstract

A game timer, especially suited in one embodiment as a chess clock, including means for direct input of minimum average playing speed in moves per unit time as well as input of the required number of moves in one or more time control sequences. Direct input means that minimum average speed is not inferred from the number of moves to be completed over an initially allotted period of time, as in conventional chess clocks, but is instead input as number of moves per hour or per minute. The units of time are established by a separate input. The separate inputs of minimum average speed and number of moves per time control sequence generate an initial allotted time automatically, which provides a ready means of enforcing the input minimum average speed. With the number of moves in a time control sequence set to one, the timer emulates a Fischer Clock.

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