The person who starts the seek will set the time limit. The limit is how long you have to move after your opponent moves. It resets after every move in correspondence chess, but not in Live chess. Hope that answers your question.
Who sets the time limits on online chess?
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So people who invite me to play set the time? (for online chess, that is.)
So if one game says 3 days, you have 3 days to move. If another says 13 days, you have 13 days to move. When I accept their invitation that is already decided?
Is that right?
stwils
Thanks.
stwils
Actually thats a bit wrong.
Chess.com at its basis uses a lobby system. When a person makes a new seek, you can just think of it as somebody sitting at a chessboard waiting. But chess.com is more advanced then a traditional lobby system. Whenever somebody tries to make a seek, it checks if somebody has already made a seek with the exact same conditions as you (and around the same elo range). If this seek exists, chess.com forces you to join the player using the exact same conditions (instead of making an indentical seek). The only practical differances are that players are able to join games much more efficently then in traditional lobby systems, and that the person that made the origional seek gets to choose the games name.
If you want to look for games like in traditional lobby systems, check out online chess>open seeks or live chess. If you don't want to automatically join seeks with indentical conditions (MY NAME IS TOO CLEVER!), there is a way to turn that off in online chess>settings
So specifically answering your question, you will play under the time limit you choose, or if you manually join a seek, whatever your opponent chooses. Chess.com will never force you to play 1 move per day if you said you were looking for a 1 move every 14 days seek.
I've just started to play on online chess. I notice some of the games say 2 days, 13 days, etc. Who decides that and what does it really mean?
stwils