Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 10:21:18 06/25/01
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On June 25, 2001 at 12:57:20, O. Veli wrote: >On June 25, 2001 at 09:00:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On June 25, 2001 at 08:42:06, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>On June 25, 2001 at 08:26:39, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >>> >>>>Could somebody tell me which are the time control considered as rapid chess ? >>>> >>I decided to perform an internet search for "rapid chess" and came up with G/15 >>to G/59 are FIDE rapid chess events. Actually, it is a little bit more >>complicated than this since games can have an increment. > > For games with increments, you assume that the games last 60 moves and >calculate the time control as such. A game with with 10 minutes to start with >and 50 seconds added every move is considered rapid; 10 + 60 moves * 50 seconds >= 10 + 50 = 60 minutes. A game with 50 minutes to start with and 15 seconds >every move is not rapid since it comes out to be 65 minutes. 15-60 minutes is >considered rapid by FIDE. So if I have understood well, a game that after 60 moves has lasted more than 60 minutes isn't considered rapid , because we are have more than 1 minute per move ?
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