If chess had only one time format, in your opinion, what it should be?

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MisterWindUpBird

Classical. No question. live.png

 

eric0022
Yurinclez2 wrote:

INFINITY since its chess's original time control. you play chess with ur buddy without a clock and the game is over when your parent or lover calls out your name

and gg means gotta go

 

I thought I would be the first to write this, but you beat me to it.

ChesswithGautham

Maybe 20 min. Not too long or short

Wolf_Plays_Chess

 

I would go with all of the long times. To give some examples: 15|0, 90 min, 20 min, etc.

NikkiLikeChikki

Chocolate. No wait, mint-chocolate chip. No wait, cookie dough. Darn, I can't make up my mind. Can we live in a world where we have options?

Kalbach83

Online I would say 30 Minutes each one. Why? Blitz or even bullet games are very fast, if you are a professional in tactics, it would have some charm, but people like me make blunders in many game.

Daily chess has the advantage that even as a beginner you can make profound analysis, but you also have to have much patience and be prepared to play for several days or weeks the same game.

As I like to play in lunch break, and still want to have some time to think over my moves, my prefered format is 30/30.

chamo2074
DreamscapeHorizons wrote:

For rated otb tournaments no faster than 3 hours and no longer than 4 hours for both players. That's total time, 90 to 120 minutes each with possible increment (1 to 10 seconds) to prevent crazy end of game bullet. Here's why:  Recently I looked up the average time spent on each game of most of the major sports. Baseball, tennis, soccer (futball), basketball, NFL football, etc. The average was a bit over 3 hours. People's attention spans just won't tolerate long chess games, it's already tough enough getting non players interested in learning chess as it is. Shorten the average of serious classical games but between 3 and 4 hours.

Decent point, but the thing is, in football, Tennis, every sport, somebody who has no idea know what's going on in the game, but with chess, an untrained eye would just not understand.

I think Blitz is a fun time control, doesn't require a long attention span, add a commentator who can speak clearly and quickly and it works.

chamo2074
Kalbach83 wrote:

Online I would say 30 Minutes each one. Why? Blitz or even bullet games are very fast, if you are a professional in tactics, it would have some charm, but people like me make blunders in many game.

Daily chess has the advantage that even as a beginner you can make profound analysis, but you also have to have much patience and be prepared to play for several days or weeks the same game.

As I like to play in lunch break, and still want to have some time to think over my moves, my prefered format is 30/30.

Imperfection is much more pleasing to the human eye.

technical_knockout

one day per move.

DonThe2nd

If I were forced to choose it would be 30 minutes. Long enough to have carefully considered moves and just long enough to be "dual rated", but also short enough that an OTB tournament can finish all rounds in one day. Most of my club's big scholastic events are 30 / 5 format.

purps111

hey

es224

Blitz since it's in the middle. In classical, your opponent, no matter rating can beat you if they think enough

AunTheKnight
es224 wrote:

Blitz since it's in the middle. In classical, your opponent, no matter rating can beat you if they think enough

This is such a dumb comment. 

ChesswithGautham

For cc 10 min

otb 15|10 or 30 min

tygxc

#43
For chess.com 15|10
Over the board 90|30