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A Quick Anecdote About Speed Chess

• Bostonian 6y ago
  "The second factor is being rushed. Anything approaching a hard stop on playing tanks my game like no other. I’d find myself cramming as much losing as possible in before the deadline." This does not make sense to me. He is playing bullet chess games that last at most 2 minutes. If you start a bullet chess session and have 30 minutes to play, you can play at least 15 games. The "rush" comes from having to make all your moves in 1 minute, not from having only 30 minutes to play chess.