[Feature request ] ⅛+0 time control

Nice.

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why is this not added

3,124,178 / 3,884,941 (80%) of Ultrabullet games were decided by clock flag.

Good idea and interesting :)

@Toadofsky, yes, but most of them are still won positionally by the flagging side. Position decides a lot. If a player lost a queen in the beginning of the game it's 90% loss, unless he/she is much more stronger. There is a player, who had 1/2:25 score against me. And then he started to improve his openings and positional playing. And just after a month the score became 12/25. It's just that often there is no time to finish the mating sequence, but the game is still decided a lot by material advantage. Of course, speed matters a lot. But the best ultrabullet players have titles in classical chess. Or they are very good at standard bullet. In 1/8 the situation will change more towards speed deciding the result of a game, but still there is (judging by watching ultrabullet berserked games) a correlation between player's strength in bullet, standard chess and ultrabullet. And even considering that, ultrabullet may be seen as a variant. And it is very popular. Adding 1/8 is much easier than creating a variant, and its popularity will be worth its implementing. Also it will demonstrate how accurately Lichess lag compensation works. And on top of that, it's just fun! :)

@Chesstroll_Ingot is right, It is not about time, if you can think fast, you can win?



@drblinfold vs @Chesstroll_Ingot
2-37 is score, but I won with checkmate?

@Chesstroll_Ingot I don't disagree although it's already possible to "go berserk" in tournaments w/friends who will do the same.

I suppose I should plug my team in case anyone wants to try organizing such friendly events:
lichess.org/team/berserkers

I think maybe an even better question is:

Why can't we have a slider that allows us to pick any time + any increment? If someone wants to play 1/60+0, I don't see the benefit in forbidding it.

@Toadofsky, yes, but it's less convenient than if there was an ability to just create a game and play (or to join a tournament and play some games). Because we need to look for players online, write messages to them, then create a tournament, and it becomes uncomfortable if we just want to play a few games from time to time, or want to play with different people/in a big tournament/in a lobby.

@mathstover, yes, it would be interesting. For example, if we move a slider further than 1/4, a menu appears with different super fast time controls.