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Vik876 · 2025-03-04T15:19:44-08:00

Do you think that Blitz or Rapid has a more accurate conversion to the true USCF or FIDE rating?

shru

Jan 15, 2026

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#61

Weirdaustrian wrote:

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

whiteknight1968 wrote:

Sorry Weirdaustrian. No classical category on chess.com.

There is another site which does have though.

Classical is still better tho

Isn’t 60 min basically classical?

It is, but CC sees everything as "rapid" and it affects the rapid rating

True. Maybe 30+ min becomes classical? Hot take?

Weirdaustrian

Jan 15, 2026

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#62

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

whiteknight1968 wrote:

Sorry Weirdaustrian. No classical category on chess.com.

There is another site which does have though.

Classical is still better tho

Isn’t 60 min basically classical?

It is, but CC sees everything as "rapid" and it affects the rapid rating

True. Maybe 30+ min becomes classical? Hot take?

Anything over 30 min with over xyz increment that goes down, at 1h 0 increment is needed to make it classical, meanwhile at 30min you need 30s of increment, at 40min 20s and at 50 min 10s

shru

Jan 15, 2026

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#63

Weirdaustrian wrote:

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

whiteknight1968 wrote:

Sorry Weirdaustrian. No classical category on chess.com.

There is another site which does have though.

Classical is still better tho

Isn’t 60 min basically classical?

It is, but CC sees everything as "rapid" and it affects the rapid rating

True. Maybe 30+ min becomes classical? Hot take?

Anything over 30 min with over xyz increment that goes down, at 1h 0 increment is needed to make it classical, meanwhile at 30min you need 30s of increment, at 40min 20s and at 50 min 10s

30|30 would never end

Weirdaustrian

Jan 15, 2026

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#64

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

whiteknight1968 wrote:

Sorry Weirdaustrian. No classical category on chess.com.

There is another site which does have though.

Classical is still better tho

Isn’t 60 min basically classical?

It is, but CC sees everything as "rapid" and it affects the rapid rating

True. Maybe 30+ min becomes classical? Hot take?

Anything over 30 min with over xyz increment that goes down, at 1h 0 increment is needed to make it classical, meanwhile at 30min you need 30s of increment, at 40min 20s and at 50 min 10s

30|30 would never end

Yeah it would, but thats actually classical, 30/0 is in my opinion still slow rapid

madratter7

Jan 15, 2026

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#65

Classical players will take 10+ minutes a move at critical junctures in the game, assuming they have it. 30s increment helps but classical players certainly can get in time trouble at 30/30.

shru

Jan 15, 2026

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#66

madratter7 wrote:

Classical players will take 10+ minutes a move at critical junctures in the game, assuming they have it. 30s increment helps but classical players certainly can get in time trouble at 30/30.

Wow really?

whiteknight1968

Jan 15, 2026

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#67

"Isn’t 60 min basically classical?"

Not on this site. Its rapid, same as 10/0

NM Rogue_King

Jan 15, 2026

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#68

fraserhm wrote:

Weirdaustrian wrote:

whiteknight1968 wrote:

Sorry Weirdaustrian. No classical category on chess.com.

There is another site which does have though.

Classical is still better tho

Isn’t 60 min basically classical?

In many big tournaments I've played in, 2 hours for 40 moves, and 1 hour added after is normal classical. 60 minutes is much shorter in comparison.

FishFanaticFr

Jan 16, 2026

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#69

Rapid is more slow and precise, blitz is more fast and(in my opinion) takes more skill then rapid cause you have to learn fast, and make your moves fast. You have to be very precise for it.