Handicap games via asymmetric time?

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wad4ever

I'd like to play chess with my kids, and while they know the moves, they are playing at a beginner level still. Just starting without my R or Q sort of works, but it just unbalances the game: not really chess anymore.

So I had an idea: We can use a chess clock, but I have 60 seconds, and they have 15 minutes. I tried to figure out how to set this up with the chess.com android chess clock app, but even in advanced mode, I can't tell it to use asymmetric time.

Do you guys know of a chess clock app that has this feature? Thanks in advance!

Martin_Stahl
wad4ever wrote:

I'd like to play chess with my kids, and while they know the moves, they are playing at a beginner level still. Just starting without my R or Q sort of works, but it just unbalances the game: not really chess anymore.

So I had an idea: We can use a chess clock, but I have 60 seconds, and they have 15 minutes. I tried to figure out how to set this up with the chess.com android chess clock app, but even in advanced mode, I can't tell it to use asymmetric time.

Do you guys know of a chess clock app that has this feature? Thanks in advance!

The Chess.com clock app has a settings icon for each player so you can set both to a different time.

wad4ever
Martin_Stahl wrote:
 

The Chess.com clock app has a settings icon for each player so you can set both to a different time.

Oooh, it does! I spent like 20 minutes messing with it, but didn't think to look there. Thanks!