Why is it so hard to find a game with a time control of 15/+10???
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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.
IHaveTHECoronaVirus wrote:
I don't know much about Chess.com. Doesn't Chess.com dangle cash for contestants? That's like a casino saying, "Don't cheat in a casino." The Casino is the Cheater!
Nov 11, 2020
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#25
I do love me a good conspiracy theory.
Are you sure it’s not because that’s where the market lies? That people actually prefer shorter games?
I mean if your theory were true, then 1|0 would be the most popular format and the default wouldn’t be 10|0. After all, the shorter the games, the more ads non-members see.
Of course if you are a member, they shouldn’t really care what format you play since they already have your money.
But of course the inability to mention the names of other sites being tied to a desire for shorter games makes perfect sense. I’m not sure I follow the logic, but I’m not very smart.
Are you sure it’s not because that’s where the market lies? That people actually prefer shorter games?
I mean if your theory were true, then 1|0 would be the most popular format and the default wouldn’t be 10|0. After all, the shorter the games, the more ads non-members see.
Of course if you are a member, they shouldn’t really care what format you play since they already have your money.
But of course the inability to mention the names of other sites being tied to a desire for shorter games makes perfect sense. I’m not sure I follow the logic, but I’m not very smart.
Nov 11, 2020
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#26
IHaveTHECoronaVirus wrote:
IHaveTHECoronaVirus wrote:
Redacted lol
still not edited out. surprising.
Mods have a life
yeah cuz a casino is rigged. A chess competition is not
IHaveTHECoronaVirus wrote:
yeah cuz a casino is rigged. A chess competition is not
Cards and Chess seems very opposite. But it's like Ying and Yang. They are almost interchangeable.
Playing Chess for no money is very honorable. Saying, "I'm smarter than you, and chance has nothing to do with it." doesn't go down well with other people.
ok
doesnt cash prize just make it more competitive?
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
I do love me a good conspiracy theory.
Are you sure it’s not because that’s where the market lies?
Are you sure it’s not because that’s where the market lies?
There plenty of market for cigarettes, alcohol, prostitution, drug, gambling, etc . . .
B1ZMARK wrote:
How much money do you get from a chess tournament? Not much
I got tied for like 2nd and got like 20 bucks in a tourney. Entry fee was like 23 tho 
Nov 11, 2020
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#34
IHaveTHECoronaVirus wrote:
B1ZMARK wrote:
How much money do you get from a chess tournament? Not much
I got tied for like 2nd and got like 20 bucks in a tourney. Entry fee was like 23 tho
Yeah in an open tourney in Tennessee I got first in my rating section and only got 50 dollars
In the early 1990s I won dozens of chess tournaments. Back then the prizes were £150 for small tournaments and about £6 or £7 to enter them. Cheaper fuel and generally free parking anywhere. You didn't make a living but it was decent pocket money. I won cash at 9 consecutive tournaments once, or was it eleven? It was a paying hobby. Like stamp collecting. 
Nov 11, 2020
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#37
long_quach schreef:
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)?
There is.
But Chess.com does not allow anybody to mention any other chess sites.
But 2000+ over there is not the same as 2000+ over here. I find chess.com ratings to be much stronger then on that other site we aren't allowed to mention.
Nov 11, 2020
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#39
Do you think maybe Quach is a troll account? The account shows only 12 games played. I think it’s someone from the competition come to shame us into leaving the site.
Either that, or the ban-hammer hit hard and this is the revenge tour.
Either that, or the ban-hammer hit hard and this is the revenge tour.
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.