Blitz is not bad.
Blitz can help focus the mind and assist with your handling of a game (OTB) under time pressure.
but Blitz doesn't give much time to think so you make mistakes and won't improve your handling of openings, tactics and strategy.
Accept the limitations of Blitz, play it for fun and to assist in focusing under time pressure but don't expect to improve your general standard of play from it.
Too much Blitz is bad.
Originally posted by JusuhPlaying against weaker players you get complacent and lazy. Too much of it and you begin to go backwards, getting weaker rather than stronger. Stronger players stretch you, force you to think and improve.
what are you saying? that playing against weaker players does not improve your tactics?
I don't spend much time on tactics against weak players - I just move (and hope for the best). Unfortunately this is when mistakes happen.
Originally posted by KorchIt's best to play against equal or stonger opposition most of the time. I heard of players who actively avoid weaker opposition however, and I think that this is neither realistic or helpful. Going up against a lower rated player has its own pitfalls and learning to deal with them is one more element of one's own playing strength. Besides that, there's the obvious fact that if nobody were willing to play weaker opponents then nobody would ever have the opportunity to play against stronger opponents.
I think you can improve playing only against at least equal or stronger players.
Originally posted by Dragon FireVery well put, I don't like blitz but only from the viewpoint that I am trying to improve my otb game and get it to within a few hundred points of my cc rating. That's the problem alright, good for fun but hard to learn from. At our club we play a lot of 10 min games which I am getting fed up with, but I'm thinking of getting a DGT board so it will record the moves, so at least I will be able to replay the games for analysis, once I have worked out how to get the board to record the moves without a laptop. Apparantly there is a way although the manufacturers merely refer you to someone's personal website who found a way but as a computer dinosor I struggle to understand it fully)
Blitz is not bad.
Blitz can help focus the mind and assist with your handling of a game (OTB) under time pressure.
but Blitz doesn't give much time to think so you make mistakes and won't improve your handling of openings, tactics and strategy.
Accept the limitations of Blitz, play it for fun and to assist in focusing under time pressure but don't expect to improve your general standard of play from it.
Too much Blitz is bad.
People who complain about blitz are losers at it. They probably also experience time trouble in OTB games. Someone who plays blitz/CC/OTB is better than someone who just plays CC. In blitz/OTB you cannot carry your books or consult databases so you have to learn your lines. There is also no "analysis board" so you cannot use that.
To get over 1500 on blitz/rapidchess you need ... (see the get over 2000 in speedchess).
Originally posted by z00tseconded
People who complain about blitz are losers at it. They probably also experience time trouble in OTB games. Someone who plays blitz/CC/OTB is better than someone who just plays CC. In blitz/OTB you cannot carry your books or consult databases so you have to learn your lines. There is also no "analysis board" so you cannot use that.
To get over 1500 on blitz/rapidchess you need ... (see the get over 2000 in speedchess).
Blitz to a certain extent is terrible for your chess game. For years I played a massive amount of 1 minute chess games. I hardly improved. And then when I wanted to improve this past 6 months the transition from 1 minute games to longer games, even just 10 minutes, was difficult since I couldn't stand thinking for a long time on a single move. I've kind of gotten rid of that now, but to think of how much time I wasted playing such useless, luck chess angers me.
Originally posted by krimlol. thats you.
Blitz to a certain extent is terrible for your chess game. For years I played a massive amount of 1 minute chess games. I hardly improved. And then when I wanted to improve this past 6 months the transition from 1 minute games to longer games, even just 10 minutes, was difficult since I couldn't stand thinking for a long time on a single move. I've kind of gott ...[text shortened]... f that now, but to think of how much time I wasted playing such useless, luck chess angers me.
and "luck chess"? yeah right...