30 min is much too long to be considered blitz...
Bullet rating - For games under 3 minutes.
Blitz rating - For games of 3 minutes to 14 minutes.
Standard rating - For games 15 minutes and longer.
Is it blitz chess if...
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Sep 6, 2011
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RapidPlayer wrote:
30 min is much too long to be considered blitz...
Bullet rating - For games under 3 minutes.
Blitz rating - For games of 3 minutes to 14 minutes.
Standard rating - For games 15 minutes and longer.
However, increments alter these categories somewhat, I believe, and I haven't quite been able to understand exactly how they affect them. For example, I generally play 5 min. games with a 10-sec. increment. That is still considered blitz in my stats. If I were to play 5 min. games with a 15-sec. increment, would that become standard time controls? How are the cut-off points determined?
whirlwind2011 wrote:
RapidPlayer wrote:
30 min is much too long to be considered blitz...
Bullet rating - For games under 3 minutes.
Blitz rating - For games of 3 minutes to 14 minutes.
Standard rating - For games 15 minutes and longer.
However, increments alter these categories somewhat, I believe, and I haven't quite been able to understand exactly how they affect them. For example, I generally play 5 min. games with a 10-sec. increment. That is still considered blitz in my stats. If I were to play 5 min. games with a 15-sec. increment, would that become standard time controls? How are the cut-off points determined?
The cut-offs are based on the game being 40 moves (as an average) and the initail time plus the increment being added together...
i.e:
A time control of 2 | 12 therefore results in a Blitz (not Bullet) game like so:
2 minutes + (12 seconds x 40 moves = 480 seconds) = 10 minutes
Since there are dozens of possible time controls when you throw in increments it would take a while to find all the cut-offs for each of the rating catagories...in your two cases 5/10 is blitz (10 x 40 = 400 seconds) plus the intial 5 min = 11 min 40s...however a 5/15 is a standard game (15 x 40 = 600 seconds) plus the initial time of 5 min = 15 min
Its 30 min a side?
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