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Go often takes a lot more moves (~300+) to finish than chess. 25min per player / 150 moves = 10 seconds a move per player.

Compared to ~40 in a chess game would be 2 min per side / 20 moves = 10 seconds a move. (http://www.chessgames.com/chessstats.html)




A game with 5x30 sec byo-yomi could take quite a bit longer than the 25 minutes free time, so that's not a good comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byoyomi

After the 25 is up, each player can make as many moves in 30 seconds as they'd like, the 5 means that they can overstep that bound 5 times (by 30 second increments).




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