Speed Chess Challenge

Forum for people who think it would be interesting to try chess.com's Speed Chess Championship format, which is shown below:

 90 minutes of 5/1 blitz, 60 minutes of 3/1 blitz, and 30 minutes of 1/1 bullet chess.

@steven-odonoghue already said he's interested in playing me (not right away, maybe next month)... but if others are interested maybe you could find each other here.

I always thought it'd be fun to try this format out.

Are you sure we never played for 3 hours? Some of the sessions seemed pretty long.

Yeah, 3 hours is a lot, but I think it would be fun.

Yeah that's crazy. I'm not even sure I've reached 500 blitz games on a single account since then.

I think the players could decide for themselves.

I'd want to play rated though.

Maybe true

The thing about a rating is, if you're underrated you effectively get bonus points because you're preforming better than your rating predicts.

It all balances out in the end.

The 12 year olds who cry about being 200 points underrated are just dumb. 

You and I are about the same rating. I would want to play this format if you want. I haven’t played very many blitz and bullet games on this account, but we are probably pretty evenly matched if you wanted to do it.

im interested, just cuz i want to play lgp

How about me

olá

hehe

id be up for it

Neat.

What time of day do you usually play? Maybe we can play on the weekend?

Free all of monday this week, but usually after 8 PM EST.

Ok, later I'll probably make a table of names and times people can play. So far I think 4 or 5 people said they're interested.

I'd like to play on the weekend (Friday, Sat, or Sun), and my times are flexible.

I also prefer within 400 points, so I'll say 1800 to 2600 in any live time control. If you're lower (or higher) then playing for 3 hours straight probably wont be exciting for either of us.

But for people + or - 400, maybe they could set up an adoption match. 10 games, and the higher rated player has to win them all or they lose the match

Would you be free to play on Tuesday, 7-10pm EST. (Probably more like 7-10:30 with running over the clock and 5 minutes rest between sections)

Yeah, it really depends. Sometimes you can 10-0 someone 2 or 3 hundred points away, but sometimes someone 5 or 6 hundred points away beats you more than once.

It's tricky... maybe has to do with psychology and how the styles match up.

Definitely when the lower rated player is unafraid and bold it's a lot harder. When the lower rated player is conservative it's pretty easy to beat them.

its my time to shine

Can someone adopt me pls