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While great fun, I don't think playing blitz is beneficial in the long run. It encourages plenty of bad habits: guessing (instead of calculating), "gambling" (
by V-2 10y ago
While great fun, I don't think playing blitz is beneficial in the long run.
It encourages plenty of bad habits: guessing (instead of calculating), "gambling" (making bold but refutable moves in hope that opponent misses the correct answer), over-relying on simple tricks like common opening traps which wouldn't work and would get you into an inferior position in a serious game, etc. etc.
Good blitz players are good chess players who happen to put their skills to a use by playing blitz, but they haven't developed these skills just by playing blitz
- pcmaffey 10y agoThese are exactly the things that make it more "real" of a game, to me. It encourages guessing, yes, but it also encourages snap-shot pattern recognition, quick decision making, bluffing, calmness under pressure, and as you say, is great fun when the heart gets pumping in a close game as time runs out... In other words, it's less theoretical, and more like life. >Good blitz players are good chess players who happen to put their skills to a use by playing blitz, but they haven't developed these skills just by playing blitz I'm a class A player, and I've probably played < 20 slow chess games over the past 15 years.
- V-2 10y agoThat's interesting. But what was your strength 15 years ago?