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SLH4Y3R
Aug 27, 2021
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So, I was navigating in the forum and saw so many players saying that fast games are the reason why we, beginners, don't improve. Which game time is considered long? Should I play 30 minutes or more?
Aug 27, 2021
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#2
Daily chess is awesome, next is Live games. I suggest anything at or above 15|10, longer the better. The main thing is to be practicing good habits, creating a mental checklist, reviewing the board and developing evaluation techniques to come up with good ideas, and most important- reviewing all games afterwards to find your mistakes and work on fixing them for the future! :)
Aug 27, 2021
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#3
i tried daily games but i got addicted with them and... now i have 400 games to play and JUST WANT THEM TO END
but thanks for the explanation, i will try to play games like 30 minutes, thank you 
SLH4Y3R escreveu:
So, I was navigating in the forum and saw so many players saying that fast games are the reason why we, beginners, don't improve. Which game time is considered long? Should I play 30 minutes or more?
Quick games (<5min): love and hate. I think they slow down our evolution, but I'm addicted! Now I'm trying to play only 10min games, but I'm having to hurry at the end and still losing some because of time, so I plan to start playing only 15|10, really focusing on the evolution of my game. I'm stuck at 1,000 rating (10min). Let's see. By the way... 400 games at once? I think this is not very productive in terms of evolution. Nobody can pay so much attention to mistakes and successes.
15 │ 10 fast game explnation
Most of the times I used to play 15+10 until I reached like 1400 - 1500 elo on chess.com
The longer time control the better, and for me 15+10 was the longest time control where I still could maintain my full focus (and that's not obvious if you're playing a long game in front of a computer screen).
Time Controls - Everything You Wanted To Know...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/time-controls-everything-you-wanted-to-know
Oct 4, 2022
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#10
15/10 is a popular time control recommended by loads of coaches who stream and teach. So it's easier to find opponents vs trying some obscure combination of time/increment. I play longer time controls OTB rather than online. Honestly, I think there's a balance to strike between time to think and game experience. But I think there's a limit to the benefit of longer games and being lower rated, I think I can get just as much out of puzzles and study on Chessable than I will out of playing 30 min or 1 hour games online.
Daily is great, or at least I think so. It gives you maximum time to think about your moves when you want. but it also has NO correlation to other time controls and I would say is actually a detriment to your rapid/blitz game. You'll see people with wildly higher AND lower ratings in other time controls, and it just depends on the person. The OP is one such person, I am another. Fact is, I'm not sure I've ever seen a person with similar bullet/rapid vs daily ratings. Maybe they really like bullet/blitz and in their daily games they play bullet instead of daily. Maybe they are terrible at fast time controls (that's me!) but are willing to really calculate when playing daily. But, just like bullet is bad for your long game, Daily is bad for your fast game.
https://youtu.be/frMAQJDsovI
Timed chess is excellent because pressure makes or breaks unlike having unrealistic opportunities to get off the pot sounds like privilege for a certain group to succeed.
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If you consider 2-3 candidate moves every time before you move your piece, you'll find that 30 minutes feels like a blitz. If in addition to that you consider the consequences (tactical and positional) and threats every time the opponent makes a move, 60 minutes is rather short. To me, with 60 minutes there's not enough time to think through an unusual (for me) opening, complex middlegame and complex endgame, so unless the game ends in the middlegame, 60/0 is only enough time if you have your openings and endings down to automatic play. I'd rather play 60/20 or 75/0 but there's no such option on chess.com.
