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Huh? Variants of lightning/blitz/fast chess have been around since the late 19th Century. They are very much games of chess. I’m not sure what the quibble is?
by Fezzik 7y ago
Huh? Variants of lightning/blitz/fast chess have been around since the late 19th Century. They are very much games of chess. I’m not sure what the quibble is? Is untimed chess, which is uncommon for competitive play, the only real form of chess? Or is timed chess, which almost all competitive matches are, an acceptable form of chess, so long as the duration allotted to each player is __________?
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/fast.html https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/fast.html
- keiferski 7y agoBlitz chess is not ‘standard’ chess. This is not a controversial fact.
- __s 7y ago> This appears to be some kind of speed chess, not chess. Where do you see the word standard?
- keymone 7y agoThere is no time format that is called “standard”, if anything, if somebody told me about “standard chess” I would assume they are talking about standard ruleset, in which case this article is definitely about standard chess. I think you meant “classical chess”, which is a time format.
- seamyb88 7y agoI think the argument here is that it's a very different game when you have to make the majority of your moves by intuition as opposed to systematic thought, and then decide which moves deserve an extra bit of thought. But, yeah, it's still chess.