What is published
RoChess! has rated online games across 9 time controls. Separate leaderboards exist for Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, and Puzzles. That is the full public list. The experience page does not print the minutes, increments, or names of all 9 clocks.
Do not treat a four-row chart of 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes as the official set. Those values are not on the Roblox description, and four clocks would not account for nine controls. Choose the control shown in the game.
How to use the four boards
| Board | What it asks for | Practical use |
|---|---|---|
| Bullet | Fast decisions | Only after moves and checks are automatic. A flag is a loss even in a winning position. |
| Blitz | Tactics at a practical pace | A normal rated home once you have a short opening and a check-capture-threat scan. |
| Rapid | Time to compare moves | The better board while you are still learning calculation. |
| Puzzles | One position, one idea | Separate from match rating. More than 1,300 rated puzzles feed this board. |
These are uses, not official rating formulas. No K-factor, starting rating, or decay rule is published here.
A rated session
- Warm up with a few puzzles or one easy bot game.
- Queue one control on purpose. Do not hop clocks after every loss.
- Play the whole game. Resignation is allowed. Abandoning because the opening left a book you memorised is how the rating moves the wrong way.
- If you are unsure which of two quiet moves is better, play the one that keeps the king safe and does not hang material. Save the long think for a forcing choice.
- Review that game once.
What a leaderboard does not mean
A Puzzle rank does not set your Bullet rank. A bot win does not move the people leaderboards, based on the split the description draws between bots, rated games, and the four boards. Climb one board at a time.
Server size is 50. You are matched with a person, not with the whole server as a team.