Answers.Body: <p>This is not different from rapid chess and will be rated only for the rapid Elo.</p>
  
  <p>The name "new classical" is part of a push to shorten the classical time controls. Originally the idea was to have a time control with around 60 min per game, but in the end they decided to shorten it a little to make the games eligible for the rapid rating at least. </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>It is a bit different from standard rapid chess because it is longer than the usual time controls used.</p>
  
  <p>In the last World Rapid Championship, held in Berlin, the time control was of <a href="https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/WorldRapidBlitzChampionshipsRegulations.pdf" rel="nofollow">15 minutes plus 10 second per move</a> and it is also usual to held tournaments with 25'+5" time controls (like the rapid in the GCT tiebreaks).</p>
  
  <p>The ratings calculations will be done using the rapid rating list.</p>
  
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Body: <p>For the upcoming (2016) Zurich Chess Challenge, a new time control will be put in place. According to chess24, </p>
  
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    <p>Six players including former World Champions Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand compete in a "new classical" and blitz round-robin event with a novel format and time control.</p>
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  <p>which is later clarified as</p>
  
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    <p>A five round-robin tournament in which players receive 40 minutes plus 10 seconds per move for the entire game.</p>
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  <p>How is this different from a standard rapid time control? And will this section of the tournament affect the players' classical ELO rating?</p>
  
Tags: <tournament><time-control><rapid>
Title: How is the 2016 Zurich Chess Challenge "new classical" format different from rapid chess?
ThreadText: # How is the 2016 Zurich Chess Challenge "new classical" format different from rapid chess?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-11)
  
  For the upcoming (2016) Zurich Chess Challenge, a new time control will be put in place. According to chess24,
  
  > Six players including former World Champions Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand compete in a "new classical" and blitz round-robin event with a novel format and time control.
  
  which is later clarified as
  
  > A five round-robin tournament in which players receive 40 minutes plus 10 seconds per move for the entire game.
  
  How is this different from a standard rapid time control? And will this section of the tournament affect the players' classical ELO rating?
  
  **Tags:** tournament, time-control, rapid
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-11. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  This is not different from rapid chess and will be rated only for the rapid Elo.
  
  The name "new classical" is part of a push to shorten the classical time controls. Originally the idea was to have a time control with around 60 min per game, but in the end they decided to shorten it a little to make the games eligible for the rapid rating at least.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-02-11. Score: 1
  
  It is a bit different from standard rapid chess because it is longer than the usual time controls used.
  
  In the last World Rapid Championship, held in Berlin, the time control was of [15 minutes plus 10 second per move](https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/WorldRapidBlitzChampionshipsRegulations.pdf) and it is also usual to held tournaments with 25'+5" time controls (like the rapid in the GCT tiebreaks).
  
  The ratings calculations will be done using the rapid rating list.
  
  
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