How much does time control affect a player's strength?
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Hi timothy, Its Jack from scholastic chess. I think Magnus could beat anyone around 2000 with any time control over 2 minutes, because he's so good at blitz.
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It really depends on the player. Different players respond to time pressure differently. Some may play just as well while others will play terribly.
Jan 1, 2018
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A lot, if you subtracted out the bullet losses I have on chess,com in won positions with less than 10 seconds left on the opponents clock, I can speculate that my rating in bullet would be 200 points higher. Of course it is just a meaningless internet rating because the site is rigged to favor people from third world countries with slow internet connections where their clock constantly resets giving them much more time to look at the actual board position, wish we could just play fair and straight up chess again like it used to be....
Let's say a player is rated 2000 at a 2 hour per side time control. How much do you think you would have to decrease this player's time control until the player is about the strength of a 1600 in a 2 hour time control. 1 hour? 30 minutes? 10 minutes? 3 minutes? I think a 2000 with 15 minutes on his clock is about equivalent in strength to a 1600 with 2 hours on his clock.
Here's another question which is to an extreme of the other question. How little time would Magnus Carlsen have to have against 2 hour time control me (nearly 2000 uscf) if we wanted to make the game even?