Ideal game time limit!

Dear friends,

What do you think is an ideal time limit to do the following:

a. Not win the game due to other's stupid mistakes/errors/basic oversight.

b. Time to display ones chess playing knowledge/skills; strategy and tactics learned.

c. I see a lot of players playing blitz games of a minute or two; but if you look at the games; there is not much display of chess playing skills; rather you see SPEED and winning on the opponents stupid errors or winning on time!

d. According to me Chess is a thinking game and not a speed game; this does not mean sitting on the board for hours for a single move; but I do think that SOME moves make you think a bit longer than just the opening moves!  For this you should have adequate time!

I think that an ideal time limit for a live chess would be 20 minutes!

What do you think?

20 minutes is actually still really rapid for OTB. Classical controls give each player two hours for forty moves, an extra hour for the next twenty, then a final hour to finish. Nowadays there's usually some variation on this, but three to four hours for a game is pretty normal at high levels. At lower levels, not so much. I generally end up playing G/30 OTB because it's what's around, but I prefer G/45, G/60, or hopefully G/75 as around optimal for me. I think I'd get a bit restless after that, but I've never actually played with such a limit.

I'll be playing longer games here once we're out of beta, at the moment I keep the game times low, sort of like a get in and get out. There's alot of stress involved.