Beyond the parish pump of chess, unclear is why everything has to go so fast, where the chase after ever shorter chess games in many ways reflects the rest of society's development, where some take interest in an ever higher pace, in fact, to such an extent that one is hardly present in one's own life, not to mention others’. The question of reduced thinking time is, perhaps, ultimately a question of value and personal preferences, but the argument can easily be developed: The objection to increasingly shorter thinking time is neither about having enough time to find ‘the best move’, nor that ‘chess should live in a bubble’, but about the transcendence of chess, a philosophical, and to many perhaps a foreign, concept.