Time Control Tough

Ah, so many different time controls.

What's your favorite time controls?

10sec | 10sec-1sec delay | 30sec | 1min | 1min-1sec delay | 2min | 2min - 1 sec delay | 3min | 3min - 1 sec delay (UTT and TT) | 3min - 2 sec delay | {Is there a 4min time control?} | 5min | 5min - 1 sec delay | 5min - 5 sec delay | {Is there a 6min time control?} | {Is there a 7min time control?} | {Is there 8min time control?} | {Is there 9min time control?} 10min | 10min - 10sec delay | 11min no | 12 min no | 13min no | 14min no | 15min | 15min - 10sec delay | 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29 No | 30min | 60 min |

OTHER? _____

Whats your favorite time control?

Mines 30min or 10min

all the 3 min time controls

10 and 15 + 10 time controls are probably the best for me.

30/0 or 15/10 no less.  I like to figure the position out and not just guess.

I like 15 + 10 pretty well, but most often play 5 0 since it's convenient.

If you are referring to time controls on chess.com, chess.com has no time controls with delay. 

On chess.com I mostly play daily, but also have been playing a bit of 15/10 and a little 3/2. In general I prefer at least some increment (or delay, if that's also available), because there's something really lame feeling about a game ending because there's less time on the clock than it takes to move a piece.

But the most fun over the board, face to face, in person chess I've ever played is at much longer time controls. 60 minutes at least. And major tournaments that have 2+hours per player are on a completely different level; they are the most exhausting brain workouts ever, in a good way.

Online, though, G/60 feels a lot longer than in person. Too many other distractions in my home compared to a tournament hall or chess club. But I grew up with everyone saying that fast time controls are bad for your chess development, so maybe I should start playing 60 minute games online to try to improve. *shrug*

That said, a fun way of playing that I've been doing with my son (who is not as strong a player as me but is getting better quickly) is a series of games with shrinking time controls. So game one starts at 16 minutes or 32 minutes per player (depending on how much time we have altogether to play), and then whoever wins has their time control cut in half for the next game. It's a straightforward way of handicapping games between players of different skills, and it inevitably produces some pretty silly/fun conclusions by the fifth or sixth round.

I love playing long time controls over the board at tournaments, but not online as much. 

What a neat way of handicapping the stronger player and getting a variety of time controls at the same time.  I had never thought about cutting the time in half for the winning player. 

Well - There actually is delay's on chess.com. 

For example, 15|10 and 5|5 + more

Chess.com only uses increments, not delays. They are two similar time control devices, but with important differences.

Delay means the clock pauses for x seconds at the start of each move, while increment means x seconds are added at the end of each move. Increment allows a player to build up additional time over the course of play, while delay does not.

15/10 is fifteen minutes, plus a 10 second increment.

Those are increments, not delays.

For Rapid, 15|10 is standard, and I like it.  Increment is good, and rounds can be paired about every hour or less.

I do my best at 30 second games without increments

I like G5 or G30. I hate mostly every time control with increment...

I like 3/2 and 60 min 

My favorite online is 3 days, no vacation

At least 30 with 5/10 increment.