By Thursday night, when they have played a dozen "semi-rapid" and super-fast "blitz" games, it will all be over.
Was the "rapid" playoff – four quick games with an initial time limit of 25 minutes per player, with the threat of even faster "blitz" and "Armageddon" games to follow – really an appropriate way to decide the recent world chess championship final in New York, where Magnus Carlsen defeated Sergey Karjakin?
Employees craft various types of fast-blitz bits for Web sites run by MTV, VH1 and other channels.
Saban's linebackers, though, are a rare breed: fast and sturdy — like blitzing refrigerators — but also steadfast and smart.
It's also why Martinez is frequently able to outhustle opponents in his specialty, blitz — lightning-fast chess, usually played for money.
Ron Dayne, the Giants' running back, was never knocked out, but Lewis made his usual assortment of eye-popping plays: hard hits up the middle, heart-stopping blitzes, covering fast running backs out of the backfield without help, and displaying his uncanny ability to squeeze his muscular 243-pound frame into running lanes to stop a play cold.
A defensive line usually applies pressure within three seconds after the snap -- perhaps faster if it blitzes.
When they blitzed or showed blitz, Dalton played fast and was too quick to look underneath.
He has already claimed one world championship at a fast time control, capturing the blitz title in Moscow in 2009.
A hilarious, pitch-perfect and very English comedy of manners (and errors), it is also a bittersweet study of ordinary men and women of an era – the Blitz – that is fast becoming lost to time, an era, to paraphrase one review, when the stiff upper lip began to tremble.
The Texans' front seven was aggressive and fast, particularly with stunts and inside blitzes that frazzled the Raiders' pass protection, especially in the first several possessions.
