Hello everyone, what if we tried a different approach? I assume that the chess timer was invented to somehow shorten the duration of the game. There are a number of players with whom it is simply impossible to play with a regular timer; their moves take 30 minutes or more. I mainly play with a 24-8-1 timer, and at the end of the 3rd week, most players have about an hour accumulated on their timer, which is completely unacceptable. Based on this, and if the goal is to reasonably shorten the game time, I would fully support the judges' decision to switch to a 16-8-1 timer, first in tournaments (try it out in 2-3), and then for the entire season. I've played with it several times, and there's still enough time for everything, and this is for a player who, let's be honest, is far from an average level.