Our club has 5 minute quick chess tournaments with a 2 second delay, 10 minute quick chess tournaments with a 3 second delay and a G/61 tournament with a 5 second delay. I have a a friend from Germany who says FIDE doesn’t allow a time delay in quick chess. Just seems to me, a time delay favors the stronger player. At least, that has been my experience. Just curious, are these times delay OK? Thanks for your input.
FIDE has an increment.
Yes, these time controls are all standard. Does FIDE even rate “quick chess”?
Alex Relyea
Can anyone cite a rule in common usage that can be said to “favor the WEAKER player”?
33B & C: Class & Under prizes
There are some references to Rapid Chess in the FIDE handbook, but I don’t know that anybody actually runs them and I don’t recall seeing any FIDE ratings for them.
so - you think that lower RATED players are WEAKER?
Not always, but often enough for his answer to be a good one.
How about places where the rules favor the higher rated players?
all rules which function to create a fair contest “favor” the stronger player.
Higher rated? Well, if you are a Class C player, then the rule allowing for Class A prizes might qualify.
I was very careful NOT to say ‘stronger player’. 
Did I not answer the question you asked?
The time controls FIDE purports to allow or not allow are of no significance to what USCF will or will not rate. The delays you describe are all explicitly authorized in the USCF Rulebook.
When I play 5 minute games, I play without a delay. I figure, if we are playing 5 minute games, then the “sudden death” is part of the game. Otherwise you risk playing that person who can make his moves in the delay and the game lasts far longer than 10 minutes (total).
I think time delay favors the player who has more experience with time delay clocks, and in particular with the time delay clock actually in use in that game.
Some strong players persist in carrying an analog clock because they feel their opponents are likely to have a comparative advantage with time delay. Smart in the short run, not too smart in the long run. And of course they rarely get to use their analog clock!
And this is why I own a digital clock with time delay. I won’t play a tournament game without delay.
–Fromper
Cannot one organize a tournament without delay or increment… In which case the analog clock is just as valid as any other clock. (Which doesn’t speak to the meat of what you’re saying - analog clock players intentionally entering delay tournaments.) I think I’m comfy with either, only because I’ve learned that I can still have my flag fall even with delay. 
I don’t see why not, as long as it’s announced in all advance publicity.
It might be easier to just organize a tournament with no sudden death time control.
Alex Relyea
That has caught by surprise some players in the Chicago Industrial Chess League. The entire regular season (and the first of the three rounds of the play-offs) the time control is 45/90, 30/60, without an SD time control (analog clocks are just as standard as digital w/delay), so the final two rounds of the play-offs on play-off Saturday with a 45/90, SD/60 time control has some players complaining when they find out that their analog clocks are now less standard than the digitial w/delay and they may end up having to use White’s clock instead of their own even when they are playing black and are on time.
One could (as long as it’s announced in all pre-event publicity), but one shouldn’t expect much of a turnout. Personally, I’d stay away in droves.
Bill Smythe