How isn’t FIDE’s use of the terms ‘slow rapid’ & ‘fast rapid’ in the WFRCC 2019 & 2022 actually A CONSPIRACY against Wesley So & maybe even Vidit & Fabi to favour Magnus & Hikaru?

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Check out the maths here – they said both 32.5min & 60min are ‘slow rapid’.

• https://chess.stackexchange.com/q/41499
• https://chess.stackexchange.com/q/41478
• https://twitter.com/_/status/1665006937828921344
• https://twitter.com/_/status/1665015848015384576
• https://reddit.com/14dd0ck
• https://reddit.com/14dd0e1

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Part0 – The term ‘slow rapid’ is undefined. It’s used for both the 2019 & 2022 WFRCCs.

1 – For 2019

The claim is

Each duel consisted of two “slow rapid” games (45 min for first 40 moves, 15 min for the rest of the game) with victories worth 3 points, two “fast rapid” encounters (15+2 time control) with wins equal to 2 points, and a couple of  blitz games (just one point for a victory).

• from here Link 1 Wesley So wins Fischer Random Championship

Link 2 – They also say ‘slow rapid’ like in quotes. LOL.

Wesley So defeats Magnus Carlsen yet again! The third "slow rapid" game of the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship final ended in White's favor.

The score is now 7,5 – 1,5!

Do you think Magnus Carlsen can come back from such a difference?#FRchess #FischerRandom pic.twitter.com/fFETLZS8n1

— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) November 1, 2019

Link 3 – Carlsen lost the Fischer Random World Championship to Wesley So in 2019, in an event that was hosted in Norway. The format was played with a slow rapid time control, but Carlsen suggests the games will be even more interesting with a longer time control.

Link 4 – Regulations for the 2019 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship

2 – For 2022

Link 1 – Battle lines are drawn: Group stage ready to begin October 24, 2022 By Jonathan Tisdall

Quote :

The time control is so-called ‘slow rapid’: Each game is 30 moves in 25 minutes, plus 5 minutes for the rest of the game after move 30, plus 5 seconds increment per move starting from move 31.

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Part1 – Short version in case you know Gasai already some stuff about time control conversions

Afaik:

• (0,10) is blitz.
• [10,60) is rapid.
• [60,120) is unrated classical.
• [120,infinity) is rated classical.

So what’s ‘slow rapid’?

I see only 2 possible definitions for slow & fast rapid.

Def 1 – slow rapid means unrated classical [60,120) and fast rapid is rapid [10,60).

• –> this means Wesley So is not classical WFRCC but slow rapid WFRCC while Hikaru is (fast) rapid WFRCC.

Def 2 – slow rapid & fast rapid cut up rapid [10,60) into resp [35,60) and [10,35).

• –> 2 issues here. 60min is not in either of these. Also, 32.5 is in [10,35). So neither 60 nor 32.5 are slow rapid. Lol. Wesley So is again classical WFRCC while Hikaru is fast rapid WFRCC.

Def3 –> Since 15+2=17 is fast rapid, [10,X) is fast rapid & [X,120) is slow rapid for some 17 < X < 32.5. like say X is some arbitrary number like X=20 or X=30. Lol yeah right!!

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Part2 – For more explanation

Part I.

1. (0,10) is blitz.
2. [10,60) is rapid.
3. [60,120) is unrated classical. –> apparently if you’re 2200+ or 2400+ or something, and you play a game that’s 60min per player w/o increment or bonus time (or an equivalent of this) then the game is counted as classical but it’s unrated.
4. [120,infinity) is rated classical.

Part II.

According to this https://chess.stackexchange.com/q/41479 when it comes to increments and bonus time and stuff you should assume the game is 60 moves. Eg a game of 5min + 6 sec increment per move – Is this rapid? Or blitz? In chessc*m this is considered blitz

• because chessc*m counts the game as 40moves so 5min + ( 6 sec / 1 move ) x 40 moves x ( 1 min / 60 sec ) = 5min + 4min = 9min < 10min

but in FIDE this is considered rapid

• because FIDE counts the game as 60moves so 5min + 6 sec x 60 moves x 1 min / 60 sec = 5min + 6min = 11min > 10min

Part III.

Look at the quarter-finals in the 2019 WFRCC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_World_Fischer_Random_Chess_Championship_2019#Quarterfinals

There is slow rapid, fast rapid & blitz.

Part IV.

When you hear the terms ‘slow rapid’ & ‘fast rapid’ then you might think

Possible Definition 1

1. slow rapid = [35,60)
2. fast rapid = [10,35)

because 35 is the midpoint of 10 & 60.

Part V.

So why does FIDE consider 32.5min slow rapid?

https://reddit.com/ycuv4i

Part VI.

But as it turns out in 2019 WFRCC

1. 3min+2min = 5min is blitz –> No issue
2. 15min+2min = 17min is ‘fast rapid’ –> 17 is below 35 so no problem.
3. 45min+15min = 60min is ‘slow rapid’ –> How is this slow rapid?

Part VII.

Larry Kaufman ( see user hissha in image above ) told me that 60min might be considered ‘slow rapid’ https://twitter.com/nicbentulan/status/1665006937828921344/photo/1 because [60,120) is not rated. So you’d think

Possible Definition 2 ‘slow rapid’ means [60,120) while ‘fast rapid’ is just the usual rapid [10,60).

Part VIII.

Again

But then why does FIDE consider 32.5min as slow rapid too?

Part IX.

Soooo definitions 1 & 2 don’t work. So

Definition 3 above

slow rapid must be [20,120) ? [30,120)?

I mean how else can both 32.5min & 60min be slow rapid?

It has to be [X,120) that includes 32.5 (and 60) but excludes 17 sooo

17 < X < 32.5

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