Time is money, or are you going to waste it?

Write specifically for me, why is it irrelevant? After all, Max is right in some way.

I'm writing specifically for you. The chess timer CAN STOP in battles. So, it's not quite clear why demon slicing is relevant here, if the time isn't spent on the battle.

You can easily play with a chess timer set to 2 minutes. You can spend 1 minute on the first turn, and 3 minutes on the second. Or you can spend only half a minute and leave time for complex chains.