What's the difference?

What is the difference between live blitz, standard and bullet chess?

Hi blackfirestorm666--I forget the precise definitions on here, but bullet chess uses extremely fast time control, typically not more than 2-3 minutes per side.  Blitz is slower but still too accelerated for serious play, anywhere from 5-15 minutes per side.  Standard is anything longer than that, whether it's 30 minutes per side or ten hours.  These are base time controls and increments can be added as well; if you play a 2-minute game where each side gets back a second on every turn, it's still regarded as bullet.

Unless I am outdated, Blitz is 5 minutes. Bullet is shorter, and Standard is longer. Standard also has time delay, if live, of duration to be agreed upon by players.

Ok thanks :)

I think you are right chopwood.  My son plays a lot of blitz and bullet chess on chess.com and I believe he told me that blitz in a little longer than bullet.  Most of the OTB tournaments that I go to, (which is not many), there is a 5 second time delay to write moves down, so I think a 5 sec delay is pretty "standard" on standard chess LOL. 

Yep it is a whole different ball game.  I personally do not like blitz and bullet because I simply cannot think that fast.  In fact a one hour 30 minute OTB game (45 mins per player) is blitz enough for me.  :)

live chess is ok but when you get pawn pushers that's when i get annoyed

Five minutes is slow blitz. I play mostly three.

To be precise, 3-minute is fast blitz, with a 2-second delay allowed. 5-minute is blitz, under the USCF official rules. I agree that no game played at 3 minutes has any value for a serious chesplayer, and even 5 minutes devalues the game to whoever makes the last mistake

3 0 is the fastest type of blitz. 14 0 is the slowest blitz assuming you're not using increments. Faster than 3 0 is bullet, 15 0 or slower is standard. Everything in between is blitz.

Isn't >15 but <60  considered rapid, not standard?

I know that 10|10 is considered Standard on chess.com while 10|0 is considered blitz. So I think that chess.com regulations for bullet/blitz are:

0 < bullet < 3|0 ≤ blitz ≤ 10|0 < standard.

I'm talking about chess.com live chess only. If you exclude tournaments, the only types of games are bullet, blitz and standard. If you want to know exactly which category something falls into then:

If base time + two thirds of increment is less than 3 = bullet

If base time + two thirds of increment is 3 or more but less than 15 = blitz

If base time + two thirds of increment is more than 15 = standard

But you're right that if we we're talking about proper "otb" chess, the a 15/0 game would be very speedy indeed.

Increments can make all the difference. Blitz is up to 15 min. though.

If 10|10 is standard then the increment must be defined in seconds in that formula, correct?

Yes. Absolutely right. 10 mins + 10 seconds = 10 + 6.6(approx) making it standard. so 10/9 and 10/8 would also be standard, 10/7 would be blitz. (admittedly unlikely time controls!)

One of those games that lacks value.

Find the win that White missed.