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Time controls

Hi there,

I was wondering why lichess doesn't offer official longer time controls like for example 2h + 30min after 40 moves. Also some funny blitz options like delay or hourglass are missing.

Did you consider to add it already?
I think the long time controls wouldn't really be played at all to be honest. Hourglass would be funny to have, I don't really see the point of delay though.
I think tournaments around 30 minutes time control would be great, the current 10 min classical tournaments are too fast.
These long time controls would be useful if you play with a friend under official tournament conditions. Of course they would be nonsense for arenas.

And delay is just a funny modus I would say...
The long-time control indeed nonsense in the current arena system, but maybe would work as a separate multiple day tournament or team tournament system for example:
every participant play one game weekly with his opponent in a scheduled day, and the next round starts in the next week, and so on, until only the winner remains and the losers drop out.
What do you think?
Probably I would just work with friends or else your opponent might have not the time or will to be online. But for inofficial tournaments it is surely a important thing to have.
Hourglass sounds neat. I would like to play online with 30/40 + 30SD + 5s delay from move 1. I think move time controls also would be nice.

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