Perception By Top Chess Players
Many professional chess players do not take rapid, blitz and bullet chess as seriously as they do chess with standard time controls. Some dismissive quotes from top chess players on the topic of it are the following:
"Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess." – Vladimir Kramnik
"Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess." – Anatoly Karpov
"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 a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." – Vladimir Kramnik
"litz – it's just a pleasure." – Vladimir Kramnik
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And stunned, stone blind, and deaf
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