No default RAPID chess

On the android app, I find it difficult to find an opponent for a 30 minute chess game, which I use 15+15.

I noticed that the default suggestions run between bullet and 10 minute chess.

Over and over, on the forum, people correctly state that the longer the game, the better the chess playing is.

Just today I read a post by a frustrated parent on how to get her 9 year old kid to play slower chess.

I reccomend adding a 15+15 quick game suggestion (that's roughly a 30 minute game). In scholastic chess, in the USA, 30 minute chess is ths defacto standard for rounds. It's about the maximum time you can use and get 5 entire rounds completed in a single day.

Adding 15+15  button would make it easier to find a slower game, and more people would play a game at the rapid time control. As far as I can tell, rapid games make up a small fraction of games for the vast majority of players.

I would even suggest adding an entire 2nd row of quick buttons: 15+15, 30+30, 60+30, and 90+30.

The 90+30 should be considerd the control closest to a FIDE classical time control. 

I don't know, but there is plenty of space on the app to put more quick buttons.

I've wondered, on the desktop, why they chose 15+10 instead of 15+15, since 15+15 approximates a 30 minute game.

-for calculation purposes, 60 moves = a game.

AHA!

No suggestion that pops up after in seek mode, but clicking the button to change the clock parameters does bring up the full list of default time options.

Perhaps chess.com can tweak it's popup time suggions to give you the options closest to your custom seek time.

And I still think chess.com should add  90+30, just because it's close to the FIDE classical time control.

(Genuine question) Don’t you think it would take an insanely long time to have a 90+30 seek matched though? I wonder how many people are online at any given time that can commit to a 3-4 hour game? I believe there are various clubs you can join to set up this kind of game by prior arrangement. 

I have played a little 90/30 in the past with seek and it really depends. You are more likely to get a match during US daytime as it seems to be more people online. sometimes it takes a couple minutes and sometimes it takes 15 20 minutes

Talking about long game times...  brings back memories from '89, when I was stationed in Fort Hood TX.

Once a month, the chess club on the base would pair up players for s single rated game.  If I recall, it was 90 minutes for the first 30 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves, followed by a a 30 minute sudden death.

One day both me and my opponent got into time pressure in all 3 time controls. I don't remember who won the game after so many years. Perhaps it was a draw.

That's ridiculous. According to FIDE, 60 minutes is the maximum time control for rapid.

Agreed! It would be good prep for OTB matches and tournaments.

On chess.com there is nothing between Rapid and daily games. I don't know why Chess.com doesn't have a classical time control rating separate from Rapid.

Even if there is still a small pool of players than want to play slow games, with 30 million members, it still should be a decent number of players wanting to get rated at that time control.

Absolutely. All feels a bit arbitrary. 

Fair enough. Interesting.