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More time is required. Look what happened to these chess960 tourneys happening at the same time: Lichess official hourly chess960 arena 3+0 time control 0 players (2 players paused) https://lichess.or…

What is the purpose of preventing rated games through correspondence for Chess960? Looks like, no rated option for variants in correspondence. I don't play other variants so not having rated option fo…

These are classical time controls. Even 5+30 is classical as per lichess. I agree with that since we get to think deeper with these time controls. As pointed out earlier, weekly classical draws thousa…

If 5+30 is weird, there is 15+15, 20+5, or 25+0 etc. Typically, there is no time trouble in either of these time controls in my experience (I'm a very slow player generally). Did Lichess try daily cla…

Take this recent Weekly Classical Arena tournament as example: https://lichess.org/tournament/zivOebDP It has really long duration 20+10. It had 1336 players and within 5 hours they played 2605 games!…

Thanks for sharing this info. Classical swiss tourneys are nice to have. However, there are limitations in swiss system (e.g. having to wait for a round to complete though players are available, inabi…

I used Hourly for the lack of better word. In the details, I mentioned that Lichess allows for minimum 100 minutes for 5+30 tournament. So Lichess thinks it is feasible to have 1 hr 40 min tournament.…

There are plenty of official tournaments on Lichess. But there is lack of Classical tournaments. There is Weekly and Monthly Classical. But you have to live in a convenient timezone to be able to part…

If you were wondering like me, this is the link from the team page that allows to vote for time control: https://forms.gle/iwdeyZwLTzkVar64A