Unusual Time setting: Canadian Byo-Yomi Blitz

[shinuito]

@dragon-devourer

I think just blitz + Canadian is enough to warrant a warning

What is blitz though?

I think even if we look at what games the site currently marks as Blitz, we probably won’t agree that some are Blitz that are marked as blitz, and some that are marked as live really should be Blitz!

Eg:

@shinuito

0s+100x9s byo-yomi is Blitz

and just some general guess at the current thresholds in Fischer and byo-yomi

Blitz Game Problem

Here’s a list of guesses of what I think are the thresholds for Blitz settings irrespective of the board size. The only issue is that this is going by what the game history symbols are classifying as Blitz/Live as opposed to what the ratings algorithm might be doing. Now I imagine since the various functions I highlighted are being imported, they aren’t randomly different for different aspects of the site but who knows. I was going to thrash my own rating by testing with rated games but so far …