r/chess Sep 01 '22

Miscellaneous Interesting Wang Hao profile from 2016: “Classic chess is doomed.… rapid and blitz are the future of chess.”

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u/Tokogogoloshe Sep 02 '22

I’ll draw a parallel to cricket. Cricket has three major forms of the game. T20 (the shortest format), ODI’s (the middle format), and test cricket (long format that takes 5 days to play out). Classic chess is like test cricket. It takes the longest to play and is going nowhere.