https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oJD5nf3Ok
The different speeds of playing chess from the fastest to the slowest are called: Bullet, Blitz or Speed Chess, Rapid or Quick Chess, Action Chess (Antiquated. Between 30 and 59 minutes per player.), Standard, and finally Correspondence or Postal Chess, also known online as Daily.
@john2001plus
9 minutes ago (edited)
As far as I know, ICC was the first place on the Internet to play chess.
I joined ICC back around 1995. I didn't even have the World Wide Web at that point. I had used a text-only version of the Internet called "Usenet" for about five years. Within a few months, I downloaded Netscape and accessed the World Wide Web for the first time. It was slow and I had no idea what to do with it. There was hardly any content.
So back then to play chess on ICC you had to download a program that would act as a graphical user interface. It communicated with the server using text but displayed the board on the screen. The most popular program was called "Ziics", but it would be later replaced by a program called Blitzn which was the standard until recently.
BTW, back in the mid-90s, I was having an online chat with the owner of ICC, who told me that he was inventing a new time control, which was less than 3 minutes for the whole game. He wanted to know if I had any ideas for a name for the new time control. I tried to come up with something, but he suddenly had an inspiration and called it "bullet". I told him that this was a terrible name because what do guns have to do with chess? However, he stuck to his guns, sort of speak.
The different speeds of playing chess from the fastest to the slowest are called: Bullet, Blitz or Speed Chess, Rapid or Quick Chess, Action Chess (Antiquated. Between 30 and 59 minutes per player.), Standard, and finally Correspondence or Postal Chess, also known online as Daily.
@john2001plus
9 minutes ago (edited)
As far as I know, ICC was the first place on the Internet to play chess.
I joined ICC back around 1995. I didn't even have the World Wide Web at that point. I had used a text-only version of the Internet called "Usenet" for about five years. Within a few months, I downloaded Netscape and accessed the World Wide Web for the first time. It was slow and I had no idea what to do with it. There was hardly any content.
So back then to play chess on ICC you had to download a program that would act as a graphical user interface. It communicated with the server using text but displayed the board on the screen. The most popular program was called "Ziics", but it would be later replaced by a program called Blitzn which was the standard until recently.
BTW, back in the mid-90s, I was having an online chat with the owner of ICC, who told me that he was inventing a new time control, which was less than 3 minutes for the whole game. He wanted to know if I had any ideas for a name for the new time control. I tried to come up with something, but he suddenly had an inspiration and called it "bullet". I told him that this was a terrible name because what do guns have to do with chess? However, he stuck to his guns, sort of speak.
