"15:15 was pretty much the most balanced time frame" (c) orior
Totally agree!
I totally agree with the above post. :)
now because of this changing, guys with huge rating in classic plays against low ratings people in new ' 15 minutes rapid'(
I'ts really a shame, I don't understand this change !
15 + 15 was so good for chess progression...
The problem is not a specific time format - everybody has his own preferences. The problem is that the community got used to fast pairings in 15-15 games. I am disappointed that such a wide reaching decision was made without asking the community what they want.
Thank you for making classical actually classical and not rapid. It always was weird to me that classical here was on rapid time control.
Also it will be more in align with FIDE as rapid in tournament are usually 15+10
YES, PLEASE KEEP 15+15!
Democracy is dead.
@halfasleep
Deciding which features Lichess has and in what form is not a democratic process, and I firmly believe it shouldn't be.
Yet, it would be nice if the developers *do* listen to their users both before and after making such a radical change. I for one would be very much interested to hear exactly *why* the decision was made to replace 15+15 by 30+0, even though many people play 15+15 (and still do through the custom search).
I now wait 3-5 minutes to get a 15+15 game... which is actually sort of OK, I can live with that. But it's definitely no improvement.
Yes, this change is very weird. I don't understand why they did that. I think that they don't see the difference between 15 + 15 and 15 + 10, but in fact there is a big difference. 15 + 15 is much better balanced.
And games without increments are not a good option, the players can be tempted to simply win the race, and not really the game.
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