What is your favorite time control?

Rapid

10 min time control you can play a lot of people around your lvl

5/10 minutes

Old school chess. 40 moves in 2 hours. Or more. Fast styles replicate short attention spans of modern, technological society. Inadvertent. Sadly...

quality vs. quantity

Now people play more games in short period of time but at what expense? 

Everyone is entitled their opinion. Here is mine: (I don't expect or demand that others agree with me. It's just my opinion): Chess is a war game. War consists of strategy and tactics. Strategy is made of a set of guiding principles in pursuit of an endgame. Tactics are short term actions aimed to serve the greater strategic goal. Much like in real war, the beauty in chess is the time you take to think about your strategy and develop your pieces. You cannot afford to waste a move. Like I said, 40 moves 2 hours for example. This is an art. It's mental and it's beautiful and it forces your brain to work overtime. Can you imagine a real battle where tanks appear, shoot their guns for 2 minutes and then leave? This is blitz or bullet or whatever. Do people.think grandmasters of old times were more stupid because they didn't have computers and touchscreens and didn't play blitz games at the speed of light? Sure, they had speed chess. But for training, for fun. Not as a purpose on itself. Do you think you (the average joe or jane chess player) are smarter because in 60 seconds you can win a chess game? I can do that too, sometimes: in tic-tac-toe. Is that game strategic or brilliant because of its lightning speed? Hardly. In any case, chess was meant to make people think twice before they make a move, and endure the consequences not a wrong move. Like I said, it's a war game. Look it up. 😊

Addition: I always tell people chess is awesome because it makes you think. You are on move 15 or something. You begin to calculate. "I do this, he does that. But if I do this he does that. But what if he doesn't and does this instead?" It trains your brain to think about options. And it has relevance and application to real life situations. How can you develop strategic thinking by acting like a robot in a 60 second game? Just my personal opinion, as I said. Maybe I'm the last romantic here.

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Very difficult to get someone who would be willing to spend four hours on their computer, though. Time passes by fast otb but on the computer that's different.

Mine’s is rapid or blitz. Bullet is to fast.

Either 3|2 or 24 hour...3|2 gives you the buzz of Bullet chess but you don't kill too much time on it. And the 24 hour gives you a chance to think and study all possible outcomes. Really learn something inside a game.

I live in Moscow Melvin 😊🤗

rated i like 3+0 for blitz 1+0 for bullet 10+5 for rapid casual i burn through bullet all day and see if i can beat a 2000+

For me it's 3|2 because you have to make quick decisions but can take a bit of time to think when you are in a crucial position. And I like the increment because I don't like to lose on time if I am in a completely winning position.

blitz/rapid though I tend to play more bullet

nothing much

bullet 

3/0