fast chess

Also known as rapid chess, speed chess

variation of chess in which each side is given less time to make a move than under normal tournament time controls

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Spectators watch as street chess player "Russian Paul" (left) plays bullet chess with Jonathan Corbblah in Union Square, Manhattan.

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is allowed significantly less time than classical chess time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a variant of fast chess with draw odds for black and unequal time controls, used as a tiebreaker of last resort.