Sentence examples for blitz chess from inspiring English sources
noun
A form of chess in which each match is time-limited to nine minutes.
Rapid and blitz chess also do not carry the prestige of the standard game.
Competitors in blitz chess must finish their games in half an hour.
Blitz chess is rarely played in Beijing, so Yu's play-off debacle against Carlsen was predictable.
At a 2004 tournament in Reykjavik, Carlsen beat Anatoly Karpov, the former champion, in a game of blitz chess.
Blitz chess, where each player typically has five minutes for an entire game, relies heavily on short-term tactical skill, not long-term strategic planning.
Carlsen's position was worse, so he banked on the American's known weakness at blitz chess and launched a tricky rook invasion.
In speed ("blitz'') chess, you've got five or 10 minutes to play your entire game.
They are in any case a mix of "rapid" and "blitz" (great chess needs time), and chessplayers are past their best by 40.
It would have horrified the purists of old – world champions such as the great Soviet player Mikhail Botvinnik derided blitz as chess for chancers.
The New Yorker, February 15 , 1941P. 9 If your spirit is militant, the Collingwood Sales Company will sell you a game called Blitz-Krieg Chess, in which tanks, planes artillery, and infantry have been substituted for the old-fashioned bishops, rooks, and pawns.
By D. Whitman and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, February 15 , 1941P. 9 If your spirit is militant, the Collingwood Sales Company will sell you a game called Blitz-Krieg Chess, in which tanks, planes artillery, and infantry have been substituted for the old-fashioned bishops, rooks, and pawns.
