Is 30 minute chess best to improve?

I have been playing 30 minute chess and have been improving because of it,is 30 minutes good to improve my skill or should i go to 20 to 15/10 btw I analyze all my wins and loses

In my opinion, the longer the time control, the better it is for your improvement. Longer time controls allows for more time to find moves and calculate everything. Learning how to calculate and develop skills for finding good moves is a big part of chess improvement.

The longer the better, at least for me. I play 30 minute games and 45/45 mostly.

Tried some Blitz out of curiosity yesterday to see what it is like. Played a few 5 minute games and it was just like I imagined. Games were full of missed tactics, hanging pieces and missing those hanging pieces. Goes for me and my opponents. Openings were very questionable and a lot of the games were decided on time. I think most of the games I lost, I lost on time and the rest because it is just so fast it felt like I did not have time to think at all.

I will definetly stick to longer time controls for any serious chess and improvement. Blitz, for me, will be very random and very chaotic for a long time still. Maybe I’ll sometimes play a few Blitz games to see if my improvement reflects on that.

5 minute Blitz and 45/45 Rapid (or should it be called Classical even?) are like night and day. They are basically two different games. 10 minute rapid is somewhere in between. Bullet is from another planet.

15|10 is best. Thanks to the increment you can always win a won position or draw a drawn position. You start at 40 seconds per move and finish at 10 seconds per move.

daily is best imho.

you can play multiple daily games at once & set the time control for part of a day if 24 hrs. per move seems too slow.

As you get more experience, it'll become easier to play faster time controls. I think the best time control is the time control where you can always check whether your or their move is a blunder. At first that will take time. But as you get more used to it, you'll see that you'll be able to check for tactics faster and faster. Then you can contemplate playing faster time controls. 

It's hard to say which time control works best for you. A 60 min game, could take up to close to 2 hours if you both take your time (and what use is it if you don't use your time?). Maybe that'll bore you or you don't have that much time a given day. Chess is something you can improve at for your whole life. But you won't if you don't have fun while doing it. So always keep checking whether you're still having fun and if you're not, try looking for a different way to enjoy chess.

I've exclusively been playing 30 min rapid games since I started chess about a year ago and seen near constant improvement in my play. I typically play one game every two days. I have a busy work life, so I usually play the game on one day and then analyse it the day after. The day after that, I play a new game, etc. Recently, I started playing daily games too. Just wanted to leave my experiences, in case it helps at all! 

 

 

Wise words as always from CM RAU4ever !!

I also would like to ask if daily games (correspondence games) are good for improvement? Because we can move the pieces analyzing. This looks not good for taining our brains?

yes, very good for your chess to play daily... if you actually use enough time to try to find the best moves.

better for your game in the long run to try to calculate things for yourself than move the pieces around (although it is allowed).

just play 15+10. I think it's the best because your opponent also won't play so slow.

I just posted a blog regarding this very topic:

https://www.chess.com/blog/foobarred1/part-v-playing-the-game

you may find it interesting.

My opinion... Play games which you like.

If you like 30 minutes games... - then play them.

what about me... Now I like 15/10 games more.

They are more dinamic.

the increment is very helpful

nevertheless, 15 is a short time

but 15/10 30 min is odd...

i can get a better position/skeleton in a 30 min game but will very often flag if i attempt to play “classical;y minded”

i get more “rapid esque” positions in 15/10 but,the games are more fun, good pool of players, more exposure for your opening ideas (though not as deep as longer game -.i would consider 30 min with increment to be a sweet spot)

but in overall utility i think 15/10 better

if you are going to invest 30 min play a 30/30 or longer and really make the best of it

for for limited play sessions play 15/10 and get a good amount of games in and start practice with annotation and simple analysis

You should play 15|10. 30 min is too long

Yes, the slower the time control, the more time you have to think and so the more you can improve.

Be sure to include study of general opening principles. Then a slow time control gives you the opportunity to think about and apply these principles. This is a much faster way to improve than simply playing bullet or blitz chess.

Daily for lots of time to think, and 10 minute rapid for a live game that won't intrude on your schedule.

Don't you mean "if you are willing to invest up to 60 minutes"?

I personally found that after my first classical game on lichens my rating shot up by three hundred points. It really helped me think about what my opponent would do and I won a lot more games