Classical. No question. 
If chess had only one time format, in your opinion, what it should be?
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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.
Maybe 20 min. Not too long or short
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I would go with all of the long times. To give some examples: 15|0, 90 min, 20 min, etc.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
hey
Blitz since it's in the middle. In classical, your opponent, no matter rating can beat you if they think enough
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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.
For cc 10 min
otb 15|10 or 30 min
There are so many entertaining chess variants and time controls that have been created in the last 25 years that it would probably be impossible and unfair to choose one chess time format that would satisfy everyone. I personally prefer the 1:30/40 classical with delay satisfactory for me. I have always been curious about the "evolution" of the SPEED Chess time formats. 40-50 years ago the prominent speed controls were 5 minute blitz or the more "casual" 10 minute speed chess. Today, on line, the rage appears to be the 3:00 bullet format supplanting the tradition 5 minute speed chess format. Ideally, I'd split the difference and advocate for a 4 minute speed chess with a 1 second delay.