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This is prompted by David Howell's adventures in Tblisi, but it's not about David as such, that's just a starting-point. Anyway, his apparent time-trouble addiction, and Grischuk's recent statement - that his own tendencies represented a pathology which couldn't be cured - made me wonder. Have any strong players made particular efforts to break their time-trouble addiction, and what has been the result?

(If people will indulge me, I'm interested in the specifics of strong players and time-shortage addiction, rather than general observations, personal anecdotes of time trouble, speculations etc.)

JustinHorton wrote:Have any strong players made particular efforts to break their time-trouble addiction, and what has been the result?

You might think increments could make a difference, but watching Peter Wells once, the thought occurred to me that this was someone who knew exactly how long thirty seconds was.