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Is a 30 min game classed as a rapid or classical on chess.com?
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On chess.com there is no classical, so it is rapid.
Officially 30|0 is rapid and 30|30 is classical.
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A ‘Rapid chess’ game is one where either all the moves must be completed in a fixed time of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player; or the time allotted plus 60 times any increment is of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player.
https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012018
Thank you for replying. I only ask because I have started using Aimchess to study chess with and one of the weekly goals is to play 5 classical games. Also, Lichess classes 30+ mins as a classical game? So why is 30 mins rapid on chess.com?
Aug 29, 2022
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Exploding_Fist wrote:
Thank you for replying. I only ask because I have started using Aimchess to study chess with and one of the weekly goals is to play 5 classical games. Also, Lichess classes 30+ mins as a classical game? So why is 30 mins rapid on chess.com?
The site has never had any live rating pools beyond rapid. Staff have plans to add one but there is no estimate when it might be available and I haven't heard what time control will be the cut-off for it.