Lightning chess

[Barnhart]

Another e-mail lost in ether.

Barnhart writes:
>Further on the matter of fast-passed chess:
>
>The only variant in Rule 11 (US Chess Federation, my previous post) to
>appear in the OED is _lightning chess_ (date: 1957).  _Lightning_ applied
>to chess appears in _lightning tournament_ (1910).
>
>Regards,
>David
>
>[ mailto:barnhart at highlands.com ]barnhart at highlands.com

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