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Live Chess: Quick, Blitz, Long times?

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shaboogawa

Does anyone know the current time limits for each live chess category: I mean i'm not even totally sure myself, but i'm guessing quick is like 2 minutes max, blitz 3 to 14 minutes and long is 15 minutes or longer.  And does adding bonus time change the category as well?  Thanks in advance for any answers given.

Patzer24

Yes, the basic framework is:

Quick: 2 minute game or less

Blitz: 3 minute to 14 minute game

Long: 15+ minute games

And when you add increment that will affect the time control accordingly. So a 10 10 game for example would likely be a Long game since there is a 10 second increment on a 10 minute game.

TheGrobe

I presume, then, that the increment is added on based on an average number of moves (i.e. if the average were 30, and it were a 10-10 game then it would be assumed that it is a 15:40 minute game in total?)  If so, do you know what the move count that's used as the multiplier is?

piotr

We are using 40 moves per game for the calculation.

TheGrobe

Good to know -- thanks Piotr.

shaboogawa

Yes, thanks for all your answers!!

donngerard

yep it does