Would it be possible to have ALWAYS an increment in official Lichess tournaments?
Even 1 sec would be an incredible improvement.
one possible exception could be done for Bullet tournament.
I second that. It would eliminate lots of disputes of people losing on time in winning positions.
Even for bullet 0+1 would make better chess than 1+0.
I think it's a bad idea with always inc since players want both kind of tourns. Why not have both with and without inc.
#2 When it comes to bad losers there will always be the same in any TC.
one more vote for increments.
maybe not always but at least the "official" controls for daily/monthly etc. stuff.
3+2 instead of 5+0 for blitz
(0+1 or) 1+1 or 1/2+1 or something like this, instead of 1+0 for (hyper) bullet
I can never understand what people love so much about switching to premove mode and ruining all the work they invested in the position just because they are close to the time limit.
Only small problem is it will make berserking an even bigger risk, since your opponent will now have increment.
Hm... I wonder if we can start by throwing a 0+1 or 1/2+1 in the schedule and see if it's popular?
EDIT: Or maybe 5+1 instead of 5+0
I think for blitz 3+2 is kind of standard fide stuff. 5+1 too much too strange
and it would be great if they stop calling 10 min games classical. it's rapid I think
My favorite time controls would be 1+0, 2+1, 3+2, 5+5, 15+10.
Why not do a poll or something or invent some clever mechanism where a tournament can include both according to popularity or something? For instance you could make a two-setting tournament. At the start of the game each player must click to play 5+0 or 3+2 (if both the same then defaults randomly or w/e). After every player has voted once, the tournament could switch over to the most chosen setting as default and when two players who voted for the unpopular setting face each other they could still play the unpopular setting. You also would gather data on which mode is preferred and later could change the tournament from a two-setting hybrid to a single setting in the schedule.
Hell, you could use a two-setting tournament for not just two similar times, but drastically different times or even variants.
The problem with polls is that people vote one way and then have a different time commitment for actual events. So possibilities to change something are either:
a) Make big changes supported by most of Lichess staff
b) Make gradual changes and observe feedback
I'd really like to hear opinion from top players/streamers what they love about no increment. At least I am under the impression majority of them do. For example penguingim has some serious pre-move skills. I think JannLee also likes no-increments - at least that is what he always plays. Can't think of others i've watched recently right now, but somehow i've built this impression in my head.
On the other hand,
chess.com last year made that very cool Super-GM blitz+bullet tournament and it seemed players chose increment time controls (again it might have been organizers' decision not sure)
My problem with increment is that it almost removes the time trouble element. Which imo is half the fun in online games.
