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2026-10-16

A Chess Clock Fails Quietly: How We Test Every Unit

A Chess Clock Fails Quietly: How We Test Every Unit

A chess clock fails quietly. Not with a crack — with a sticky button on move 38, or a display that washes out under hall lights.

That's why we test every clock before it leaves the factory. Each button gets pressed thousands of times on the rig. Each unit runs a time-control cycle — increment, delay, flag fall — against a reference timer. We check the display at an angle, the way a player sees it from across the board, and we check battery draw, because a clock that dies mid-round is worse than no clock at all.

A tournament clock isn't electronics in a plastic shell. It's a piece of match equipment. It has to be boring: same press, same beep, same reading, game after game.

25 years of making nothing but chess equipment teaches you that reliability is the feature players notice last — and miss first.

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