Author: Dan Homan
Date: 04:57:33 08/10/98
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On August 10, 1998 at 07:30:50, William Dozier wrote: >Good/Day everyone: Perhaps im behind the times concerning the gme of chess. I >thought the name of the game was to check/mate the king. So how can a five or >ten min game determin who won the game, when the time has ran out and there is >no check/mate, you mean to tell me that the time has taken the check/mate rule. >Unless the game is determin at the end of the five or ten min/game who may have >had the upper/hand or winning position. Most people who play Blitz, cant win at >longer time controls, because they depend on the clock to do it for them or the >time. There has never been a war that was won in five to ten Min. And the game >of chess my frinds is a game of war, and the king must be check/mated. So in my >humble opion any Blitz game is not a chess game, in most cases the king has not >been check/mated or there is no draw, stalemate etc, you guys know the rules. So >the Blitz games have been added, and are not really part of the chess rules. > > Respectfully/William Blitz chess is real chess, just done fast. If you want to argue that it is not, you would need to argue that there should be *no* time limits in chess. Even the slow games played at international tournaments have time limits. There has to be a time limit for each side, otherwise a person could simply refuse to move their pieces when they got behind material. If you have a time limit, then that too becomes a way to win/lose the game. If two players play a blitz game, they have agreed that they will use a certain amount of time and no more. If one player tries to use more time, he loses. He was not check-mated, he may have even been ahead in material, but he spent more time thinking than allowed by the agreed upon limit. Blitz chess is real chess. Many blitz games end in check-mate because both players stay under the specified time limit. Even if we say that the human limit is 1 move/second (some seem to do much better than this on some chess servers), then it is possible to do 300 moves in a 5 minute blitz game. So if both people obeyed the agreed time restriction (within human limits) we would see very little flagging in blitz chess. Now, if you want to argue that 5 minutes is too little time to think properly, then I would personally agree with you.... but many people seem to like the fast time controls. It is certainly a different kind of chess than slower time controls, but to say that it is not chess at all is going a bit far, IMHO. - Dan
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