Question about time formats and improving

im trash and wow a 2011 member, uh try rapid and blitz good for improvememnt 

Blitz is most likely not really good for improving your game. Longer games are good for improvement. 15|10 should be the fastest time control for improving your game. If you can, play even longer games. The closest to classical chess (if we do not count custom time controls) is 45|45 (this one is actually a longer game than 60 minutes per side because if you count the increment, it becomes 60 minutes after 20 moves, so for long games you will have more than an hour at your disposal) or 60 minutes per side.

Thanks. They should put games with more than 30min in a Classical category. I'd like to play slower chess as well as rapid, but with just a rating for both I think I'll play rapid on chess.com and classical somewhere else, or the contrary.

Yeah I would like them to separate those 2 categories as well.

Hi! My name is Lauren Goodkind and I'm a chess teacher based in California.   I recommend playing with a slow time control, such as game in 30 or 60  minutes, so you have time to think.   Beginners tend to make silly unforced errors in every game.  To avoid making silly unforced errors, they need time to think BEFORE every move.  I offer a free eBook for beginners on how to win a chess game on my website: www.ChessByLauren.com.  

For your info, I do not recommend playing blitz since there's not enough time to think each move out.  Since there is so many pieces on the board, overlooking something is too easy.  This is why playing with a slow time control is crucial.   

   I hope that this helps.  

Time Controls - Everything You Wanted To Know...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/time-controls-everything-you-wanted-to-know

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

Play Longer Time Controls...

For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours. Or being lucky enough to notice and exploit your opponent’s blunders before they exploit yours.

The point is, there is little time to think about what you should be doing.

It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills.

An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.

This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow time controls or daily games, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which, while they may be fun, do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.

Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources

and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours

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Thanks for the replies, very instructive.