World class time-trouble addicts

[JustinHorton]

Bronstein was famous for epic thinks, often on the first move. I presume it follows that he got into time trouble?

There's something about it in Sosonko's book, or at least so I can discern from the Look Inside feature on Amazon. But we can't see the whole passage (it seems to say he wasn't quite in Reshevsky's league in this respect) so I don't suppose anybody has read it, or can otherwise enlighten us as to Bronstein's clock handling?

[Nick Burrows]

Efim Geller:

One of his serious weaknesses was related to his desire to always find the best move...time pressure. He always had a high number of games lost by overstepping the time limit. For some odd reason he would prefer overstepping to making a bad move or playing the first one that came to mind.

http://tartajubow.blogspot.co.uk/2016/0 ... -1925.html

[Mike Gunn]

Ivanchuk?

[Stewart Reuben]

Now with 30 second increments, epic time scrambles are a thing of the past. I am sure some players regret their passing.
I am also sure that the quality of chess has improved, That is one reason why ratings of strong players have gone up.