Rapid Chess
A time control faster than classical but slower than blitz, generally between fifteen and sixty minutes per player under FIDE classification.
Rapid chess has its own FIDE rating category and is used for many major tournaments, tiebreak formats, and online events that seek a balance between speed and quality of play.
Etymology
Rapid is an ordinary English adjective of Latin descent, in English from the 1630s, from Latin rapidus. Its chess use is an official FIDE category rather than a slang coinage: Wikipedia defines rapid chess as a time control of more than ten minutes but less than sixty minutes per player, sitting between blitz and classical. The naming is comparatively recent and unstable: Wikipedia records that rapid chess was called active chess by FIDE between 1987 and 1989, and the Glossary of chess lists rapid chess together with the alternative names active chess and action chess. No earlier dated attestation of rapid as a chess time-control label was confirmed in the sources fetched, although Winter's Earliest Occurrences file records the phrase rapid transit chess in American usage of the 1940s.
First documented: n.a. (FIDE used the label active chess 1987-1989) — n.a.; FIDE terminology change 1987-1989 documented in Wikipedia, Fast chess
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