Average duration of a Lichess4545 game

Lichess 45|45 League is a long-running, team-based online Chess league played on Lichess with a 45 minutes + 45 seconds increment time control.

How long do league games take?

We recommend planning for a game to take at least 3 hours. This should cover most possibilities, as the average league game takes around 1h 45m, but game durations can vary considerably, as can be seen in this graph of the distribution of game times since April 2017.

Well, I’m all about Lichess Classical Chess and Slow Chess as the purest form of Chess and the best way to learn.

But 45+45… I’m not even able to use 80% of my time as recommended in a 30+5. So what the fuck would I do with a 45+45?

What about climbing the rating ladder? With an average duration of 1h47 and up to 3 hours per game. At one game per day? Furthermore against a stronger opponents, since I set my rating filter to -0/+500.

Will see!