Editing Fast chess (section)

== Views on fast chess ==
Many top chess players disagree on the validity of fast chess compared to standard time controls as well as the usefulness of fast time controls for serious training.

Some quotes from top chess players may serve to illustrate this:

* "I don't know if bullet is useful but I think blitz is 100% useful. Blitz develops instincts."  —&thinsp;[[Magnus Carlsen]]<ref name="Carlsen on blitz 1">{{cite web |last1=Carlsen |first1=Magnus |author1-link=Magnus Carlsen  |title=Magnus THINKS Playing Blitz Chess is 100% USEFUL |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV90EVbGxv4&t=143 |website=youtube.com |publisher=[[Magnus Carlsen]] |language=en |format=video |date=April 21, 2023}}</ref>
* "Any coach that's trying to dissuade you from enjoying blitz is doing you a disservice." —&thinsp;Magnus Carlsen<ref name="Carlsen on blitz 2">{{cite web |last1=Carlsen |first1=Magnus |author1-link=Magnus Carlsen  |title=Magnus THINKS Playing Blitz Chess is 100% USEFUL |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV90EVbGxv4&t=246 |website=youtube.com |publisher=[[Magnus Carlsen]] |language=en |format=video |date=April 21, 2023}}</ref>
* "To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." —&thinsp;[[Vladimir Kramnik]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessintranslation.com/2010/11/kramnik-on-nakamura-blitz-and-carlsen/ |title=Kramnik on Nakamura, blitz and Carlsen |publisher=Chess in Translation |date=2010-11-10 |access-date=2012-11-10}}</ref>
* "Blitz – it's just a pleasure." —&thinsp;Vladimir Kramnik<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessintranslation.com/2009/11/kramnik-on-blitz/ |title=Kramnik on blitz |publisher=Chess in Translation |date=2009-11-16 |access-date=2012-11-10}}</ref>
* "Blitz is simply a waste of time." —&thinsp;[[Vladimir Malakhov (chess player)|Vladimir Malakhov]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessintranslation.com/2010/09/vladimir-malakhov-chess-player-nuclear-physicist/ |title=Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist |publisher=Chess in Translation |date=2010-09-05 |access-date=2014-09-10}}</ref>
* "Blitz is the opposite [of classical chess], you don't care at all. You can be drunk, you can dance all night, whatever happens you just need to be lucky and it will work." – [[Daniil Dubov]]<ref>{{Citation |title=Rapid, day 1. Interview with Daniil Dubov |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg4Ag3fsMzY |language=en |access-date=2022-03-09}}. Quote is at 0:52.</ref>
* "I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." —&thinsp;[[Nigel Short]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chess-news.ru/en/node/4716 |title=Nigel Short: 'I Understood That Kasparov Was Very Vulnerable' |publisher=chess-news.ru |date=1 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016121503/http://chess-news.ru/en/node/4716 |archive-date=16 October 2021}}</ref>