I started playing blitz chess online recently instead of normal chess (I play 2 mins with 7 second increment, rather than 15 mins with 30 sec increment). I'm no

I started playing blitz chess online recently instead of normal chess (I play 2 mins with 7 second increment, rather than 15 mins with 30 sec increment). I'm not sure playing chess makes you better at anything else but I think it let's you learn a few things about yourself. For instance, I don't think it's made that much difference to my game, suggesting most of my thinking time had been going to waste previously. Also tells you how much failure is down to stupid mistakes vs. the other player being smarter.