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  • Because you can play it against the clock. Each player has a certain amount of time (say one hour for the game). The player whose turn it is has his clock running as long as he is thinking. When he makes his/her move, he stops his clock and the clock of the opponent starts running.
  • First you need the clock to ensure the game does not go on forever. If someone was losing if there wasnt a time limit - ther ewould be nothing stopping them taking 6 hours to move for example. A win by boring the opponent to death. Of course many friendly games are played without clocks - without people doing that. Using clocks you cna change the style of the game. You cna have a long time - which means you both can think a lot or set the clokc to just 3 minutes each. That isnt much thinking time. Finally the clock can be useful in giving a handicap. One player has 10 minutes and the other only 5 for example.
  • didnt know it did

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