Hi,
I was wondering why the time variants (Bullet, Blitz, Classical) are set up so weirdly. I mean Bullet is pretty obvious but Blitz is usually considered to be up to even 15min which makes lots of sense. With this tiny gap for blitz here you don't really get many time controls of blitz available and at the same time you have incredibly large range for Classical.
The problem with Classical is that players who play 8/10min get to be compared in the same rating list with players who play 20/30min games which are at the same rating level of much higher quality. And yet they are 'worse' according to rating than many players who play much faster games of lower quality..
Also the name Classical is a bit odd since you imagine a very long match under classical (often 1h+).
My suggestion would be the 'classic' time variants - Bullet is ok, but Blitz up to 15min and 15+ should be Classical/Rapid (since 1h+ games are not frequent in online chess the name should not really matter..).
What do you think? Is there any reason for current distribution that I do not see?
Thank you!
maelic
I was wondering why the time variants (Bullet, Blitz, Classical) are set up so weirdly. I mean Bullet is pretty obvious but Blitz is usually considered to be up to even 15min which makes lots of sense. With this tiny gap for blitz here you don't really get many time controls of blitz available and at the same time you have incredibly large range for Classical.
The problem with Classical is that players who play 8/10min get to be compared in the same rating list with players who play 20/30min games which are at the same rating level of much higher quality. And yet they are 'worse' according to rating than many players who play much faster games of lower quality..
Also the name Classical is a bit odd since you imagine a very long match under classical (often 1h+).
My suggestion would be the 'classic' time variants - Bullet is ok, but Blitz up to 15min and 15+ should be Classical/Rapid (since 1h+ games are not frequent in online chess the name should not really matter..).
What do you think? Is there any reason for current distribution that I do not see?
Thank you!
maelic