Body: <p>Lightning chess predates digital clocks by many decades. It is basically 0+10s delay chess. A buzzer goes off every 10 seconds and the player on move has to move on the buzzer. The Scottish chess federation has even gone so far as to publish <a href="https://www.chessscotland.com/documents/csinfo/Rules/Light2014.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">its rules for Lightning chess</a>.</p>
  <p>Most of the clubs I've played for have had a lightning tournament at the end of the regular season as a bit of fun and as far as I know the question of having the games rated has never occurred. I guess its 0+10d time control means that if it were rated it would qualify, just, as blitz.</p>
  <p>Do any federations rate lightning?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: It should've been called buzzer or metronome chess.
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Comments.Text: FWIW, the US Chess Federation doesn't consider any time control of less than 5 minutes to be ratable (or more accurately, the base time plus number of seconds of delay or increment must be at least 5 - so 3+2 would be ratable too, in the USCF "Blitz" rating system).
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Title: Do FIDE or any of the federations rate Lightning chess?
ThreadText: # Do FIDE or any of the federations rate Lightning chess?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-04-27)
  
  Lightning chess predates digital clocks by many decades. It is basically 0+10s delay chess. A buzzer goes off every 10 seconds and the player on move has to move on the buzzer. The Scottish chess federation has even gone so far as to publish [its rules for Lightning chess](https://www.chessscotland.com/documents/csinfo/Rules/Light2014.pdf).
  
  Most of the clubs I've played for have had a lightning tournament at the end of the regular season as a bit of fun and as far as I know the question of having the games rated has never occurred. I guess its 0+10d time control means that if it were rated it would qualify, just, as blitz.
  
  Do any federations rate lightning?
  
  **Tags:** fide, rating, time-control, blitz
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: It should've been called buzzer or metronome chess.  
  > **username_2**: FWIW, the US Chess Federation doesn't consider any time control of less than 5 minutes to be ratable (or more accurately, the base time plus number of seconds of delay or increment must be at least 5 - so 3+2 would be ratable too, in the USCF "Blitz" rating system).  
  
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