No one is losing anything if you want to spend 20 minutes hitting zombies with a harpy – go ahead, I would just prefer to spend that time on something else.
But how is it not a loss? Why should I have to give up something due to time constraints in order to do something? I can understand if a blitz tournament has rules that require it, and that's the whole point, but why make general recommendations based on the considerations that Oldboy mentioned earlier, about the "minimum possible timer" rather than a timer that is comfortable for playing?
No one advocated for making it mandatory; read the previous posts more carefully.
To reiterate, the idea is to add recommended chess timers to the rules.
I read it.
For tournaments, it would be good to specify a mandatory chess timer. Because many people enjoy entering a battle and thinking deeply for 5 minutes about the meaning of life, or if they are given 8 minutes per turn, and they take 4 minutes, they won't give up their turn until the time runs out, and so on...
I also support making the transition to a chess timer mandatory.
