Answers.Body: <p><strong>You can't say that generally.</strong> Apart from the fact that your pawn might be of different quality and your opponent might have some compensation for it, there is one other thing that influences the judgement.</p>
  
  <p>I think <strong>the level of players matters most</strong>. One pawn is a different advantage for a club player and for a grandmaster. For example: if two grandmasters are playing a 5-minute blitz, one is pawn up and the other is a minute up (let's say the first player has 3 minutes and the second player 4 minutes), it hasn't such a big significance (extreme case is when the first player is very low on time e. g. 1 minute vs 2 minutes, that is of course something different). At the club level your estimate might be true.</p>
  
  <p>Another important concept is that the <strong><em>ratio</em></strong> of both times is more important than the <strong><em>difference</em></strong> between the two times (see the extreme case in the last brackets).</p>
  
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  <p>If you tried that with computers, you would find out that it almost doesn't matter, because the machines can move almost instantly (again you probably can find some extreme corner cases).</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>It entirely depends upon the Position that you are playing . Let's assume that it is an end game and your Pawn is on the 7th Rank and about to Queen next move &amp; you have 1 min of time left in the clock . Your Opponent is unable to stop it from Queening and trying to find safe squares . Then your Pawn and time are equally important .</p>
  
  <p>In the initial position you may play gambits such as a Pawn to make your opponent think and gain time on clock . So there is no simple equation which will lead to a concrete evaluation . There can be many different examples where time and piece are directly &amp; indirectly proportional to each other .</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Well, at least we know that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUr_gdKQ8j4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">relinquishing your ability to draw counts as 16% of the opponent's time.</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>In bullet, blitz, and rapid chess having more time than your opponent is an advantage. I'm wondering if there have been any efforts to determine how much of a time advantage a pawn is worth. Or say a knight. Has anyone tried playing machine matches to figure this out? Since I frequently play speed chess this could be good to know. For Example: 1 pawn = 1 minute advantage in 5 min chess; 1 knight = 30 second advantage in bullet; etc.</p>
  
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Title: how much time is a pawn worth
ThreadText: # how much time is a pawn worth
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-05-10)
  
  In bullet, blitz, and rapid chess having more time than your opponent is an advantage. I'm wondering if there have been any efforts to determine how much of a time advantage a pawn is worth. Or say a knight. Has anyone tried playing machine matches to figure this out? Since I frequently play speed chess this could be good to know. For Example: 1 pawn = 1 minute advantage in 5 min chess; 1 knight = 30 second advantage in bullet; etc.
  
  **Tags:** time-control, time-management
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-05-10. Score: 3
  
  **You can't say that generally.** Apart from the fact that your pawn might be of different quality and your opponent might have some compensation for it, there is one other thing that influences the judgement.
  
  I think **the level of players matters most**. One pawn is a different advantage for a club player and for a grandmaster. For example: if two grandmasters are playing a 5-minute blitz, one is pawn up and the other is a minute up (let's say the first player has 3 minutes and the second player 4 minutes), it hasn't such a big significance (extreme case is when the first player is very low on time e. g. 1 minute vs 2 minutes, that is of course something different). At the club level your estimate might be true.
  
  Another important concept is that the ***ratio*** of both times is more important than the ***difference*** between the two times (see the extreme case in the last brackets).
  
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  If you tried that with computers, you would find out that it almost doesn't matter, because the machines can move almost instantly (again you probably can find some extreme corner cases).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-05-11. Score: 1
  
  It entirely depends upon the Position that you are playing . Let's assume that it is an end game and your Pawn is on the 7th Rank and about to Queen next move & you have 1 min of time left in the clock . Your Opponent is unable to stop it from Queening and trying to find safe squares . Then your Pawn and time are equally important .
  
  In the initial position you may play gambits such as a Pawn to make your opponent think and gain time on clock . So there is no simple equation which will lead to a concrete evaluation . There can be many different examples where time and piece are directly & indirectly proportional to each other .
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2017-05-11. Score: 0
  
  Well, at least we know that [relinquishing your ability to draw counts as 16% of the opponent's time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUr_gdKQ8j4)
  
  
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