serious chess." — Vladimir Kramnik "Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." — Mikhail Botvinnik "He who analyses blitz is stupid." — Rashid Nezhmetdinov "Blitz chess kills your ideas." — Bobby Fischer "To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." — Vladimir Kramnik "Blitz – it's just a pleasure." — Vladimir Kramnik "I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." — Nigel Short "Blitz is simply a waste of time." — Vladimir Malakhov "[Blitz] is just getting positions where you can move fast. I mean, it's not chess." — Hikaru Nakamura "Blitz is the opposite [of classical chess], you don't care at all. You can be drunk, you can dance all night, whatever happens you just need to be lucky and it will work." - Daniil Dubov See also World Rapid Chess Championship World Blitz Chess Championship Notes References Further reading External links USCF rules “Fast Chess” by Edward Winter FIDE rapid play and blitz rules Speed Chess Online Example Online Chess Clock / Chess Timer Example, used for Fast Chess Videostream: World Blitz and Rapid Chess Championship 2015 in Berlin, Germany Chess terminology + History of chess