so when one player has 90 min vs 30 min it means the player with 30 is really struggling with the position and has to spend a lot of clock navigating; this adds pressure on the 30 min player and also allows the 90 min player to plan/calculate/etc. all on the opponents time which adds even more pressure
it doesnt necessarily guarantee a win but it is a situation where most would like to be the player with the 90 than the player sweating it out with 30
Hello.
First of all, excuse the stupidity of this question and take it with a grain of salt, knowing that I'm ~800 elo blitz, ~1000 rapid, and I don't play classical chess.
With that out of the way, I was recently watching Levy Rozman recapping one of the games in the tournament he is currently playing.
The game was pretty advanced already, I don't know what move it was, but it was definitely towards the end of what you may call the "mid-game", and Levy said something along the lines of: "at this point I've been almost blitzing my every move, and my opponent only has 30 mins on the clock, while I have 90".
Of course I know more time is better, and players make longer calculations in classical chess, but still I don't understand why 30 mins would not be enough to play the game comfortably until the end.
I mean, these are players who play with 90% precision in 3 mins blitz (maybe I'm exaggerating, but you get the point), so why is 30 mins not enough to play that game with a high level of precision - I mean, picking the best or second best move at every turn - until the end, given that they were already almost in the end-game?
Again, these are just the thoughts of a very low rated chess player, but it's something I often wonder