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Speed chess
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Fast chess.
Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is allowed significantly less time than classical chesstime 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, usually used as a tiebreaker of last resort.