Why is it so hard to find a game with a time control of 15/+10???
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marqumax
Nov 11, 2020
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I can’t seem to find any opponents who can play a 15mim+10s game. This month I was only able to find ONE game with this time control and plus it was against a 300 rating points higher Grandmaster who crushed me (I’m very happy that I could even play). It no one really playing longer time controls above 2000?
marqumax wrote:
I can’t seem to find any opponents who can play a 15mim+10s game. This month I was only able to find ONE game with this time control and plus it was against a 300 rating points higher Grandmaster who crushed me (I’m very happy that I could even play). It no one really playing longer time controls above 2000?
https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/search?keyword=15%7C10
Nov 11, 2020
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#3
I think I clicked 15+10 once, waited a long time, got bored from waiting, and just canceled. And my rating is much lower than yours so there should’ve been a larger pool of people. Clearly people don’t want to devote 30 minutes to an hour to just one game.
You have a rating that puts you in a very small pool of players. Subtract out those who don’t want to devote 30-60 minutes for one game and those who aren’t online queuing, and you’re left with practically nobody.
Probably you will need to develop a network of players and join/start a club devoted to players with high ratings who want to play long time controls.
You have a rating that puts you in a very small pool of players. Subtract out those who don’t want to devote 30-60 minutes for one game and those who aren’t online queuing, and you’re left with practically nobody.
Probably you will need to develop a network of players and join/start a club devoted to players with high ratings who want to play long time controls.
Nov 11, 2020
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#4
I play 15/10 all the time...just create a new game and someone joins within seconds.
MadLuc wrote:
I play 15/10 all the time...just create a new game and someone joins within seconds.
At your rating, the number of similarly rated opponents is x100 times more than OP.
marqumax wrote:
I can’t seem to find any opponents who can play a 15mim+10s game. This month I was only able to find ONE game with this time control and plus it was against a 300 rating points higher Grandmaster who crushed me (I’m very happy that I could even play). It no one really playing longer time controls above 2000?
I wouldn't like to play at that time control. It seems like a device for people to win on time. You know, they block the position, deliberately run their clock down trying to get you to do the same thing, but they're good bullet players and then they proceed to bore you to death. Consider playing with no increment. I think better players use no increment.
Nov 11, 2020
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drmrboss wrote:
MadLuc wrote:
I play 15/10 all the time...just create a new game and someone joins within seconds.
At your rating, the number of similarly rated opponents is x100 times more than OP.
fair enough, I didn't realize ratings made that much of a difference in the number of opponents available for the different time formats, thanks for the info.
Nov 11, 2020
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Optimissed wrote:
marqumax wrote:
I can’t seem to find any opponents who can play a 15mim+10s game. This month I was only able to find ONE game with this time control and plus it was against a 300 rating points higher Grandmaster who crushed me (I’m very happy that I could even play). It no one really playing longer time controls above 2000?
I wouldn't like to play at that time control. It seems like a device for people to win on time. You know, they block the position, deliberately run their clock down trying to get you to do the same thing, but they're good bullet players and then they proceed to bore you to death. Consider playing with no increment. I think better players use no increment.
So what? If they play too quickly thay loose, if they play to slowly they loose as well. I don't mind winning 
Nov 11, 2020
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#9
bbmaxwell wrote:
On the internet speed chess has been more popular than slow games for decades. It has nothing to do with chess.com specifically.
Is there a site where pleople of my level play 15+ chess (The real chess)?
is it just me or sometimes when I play rapid I forget I'm playing lol
Nov 11, 2020
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#11
My theory is that most people don't wanna spend around 30 mins for one game. I wouldnt either; if i wanted to play a game where I could think, 10mins is enough to suffice.
Nov 11, 2020
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#12
Yes. Because we need to stare at out screens for over an hour to play one chess game and the boomers be shrieking whenever a teen plays video games for 10mins.
Nov 11, 2020
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#13
Chess.com is conspiring to kill long time controls? Well, now it all makes perfect sense. I also hear that Danny hates puppies.
Nov 11, 2020
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#14
marqumax wrote:
bbmaxwell wrote:
On the internet speed chess has been more popular than slow games for decades. It has nothing to do with chess.com specifically.
Is there a site where pleople of my level play 15+ chess (The real chess)?
"real" Chess?
Nov 11, 2020
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#15
With computer theory there was no way to keep playing super long time controls.
Keep in mind, nobody want to play a cheater in a long time control for any chess website, just sayin
Nov 11, 2020
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#17
There aren't that many cheaters stop saying it like it's such a big problem.
Nov 11, 2020
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#18
long_quach wrote:
IHaveTHECoronaVirus wrote:
Keep in mind, nobody want to play a cheater in a long time control for any chess website, just sayin
In all my years of playing chess, starting with Yahoo and AOL and an analog telephone line, playing 40 minutes time control, I've never encountered a cheater.
Exactly.
marqumax wrote:
bbmaxwell wrote:
On the internet speed chess has been more popular than slow games for decades. It has nothing to do with chess.com specifically.
Is there a site where pleople of my level play 15+ chess (The real chess)?
15 mins no increment was always my best speed in rapid. I was playing it a few years ago here but I noticed it was getting harder and harder to get games so I switched to 10 mins which was counted as blitz. When they made blitz rapid a couple of months ago I switched to 5 mins and got loads of games but it was ten years since I'd played 5 mins chess. 5 mins online is more like bullet anyway because of the time it takes to move with a mouse. Eventually I found I could play at 5/5 and I'm slowly getting my rating back as I improve. My blitz rating had dipped from 1800 to 1480. Regarding your other comment, I'm really getting the impression that better players play with no increment. Another strange thing is that the standard in blitz in the 1500s seems far better than in the 1600s except that they blunder more often.
15/10 is just a really slow game. It could last forever and if you'd made an error and were defending a bad position, it would seem interminable and I for one would just resign against a player who wasn't making good moves but not blundering either. Why don't you try 15 mins with no increment? More fun and you'd probably get more games.