The indispensable Chernev reports that ; "In the 11th game of their match for the World's Championship in 1927, Capablanca took two hours on one move , and Alekhine took an hour and three quarters for his reply!"
Today we would play three complete games in that amount of time! And have time left over to possibly get in a fourth.
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Edward Winter makes this same quotation in his Chess Notes 6315 titled "Time consumed". He points out that the many accounts of this game's timeline are inconsistent. But nevertheless, it is certainly an interesting point that chess players of the past did not usually produce the great masterpieces of the game with a G/30 time control.
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter62.html
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