Help: How do I be a good chess player

I kept losing 1, 2 , and 3 minute blitz games because of time.

Dude, enough - It's iron clad fact that playing blitz is terrible for someone at his level. It's teaching him absolutely nothing but bad habits. 

Don't even bother with this Mikhail Tal character. He's rated under 1500 standard on Chess.com and insisting that he's a "Master". He's a class D club player. 

He's an obvious troll and the best thing to do is just block him and put him on ignore. That's what I've done.

Well u cannot really call people by their ratings cause im a 1200 yet I beat a 2200

Can we play a unrated game?

Well, I don't know how that devolved, other than just plain ol' internetting.

I've been studying seriously for about two years, and I've worked my way up to the 1400 range. It's like anything else you want to get good at, you just have to put in hard work and study.

Nothing is off the table, but bullet and blitz aren't conducive to understanding why you're making the moves you're making. You have to study different materials, yes, but you need to put them to practice. Live games in general aren't good for gaining a deeper understanding.

In BJj, you study an arm bar or a takedown, you roll with your classmates, and you compete in tournaments. Likewise, in chess, you watch videos or read, you play daily chess to learn how to apply those ideas against a resisting opponent, and you play live chess to really give yourself a test.

In school, classes might have been easy enough to skip the quizzes and go right to the test, but not in more involved studies like jujitsu or chess.

Study. Play daily games to learn to apply your study. Study more. When you are in the mood, play live games.

Have fun. That's the most important part.

Dude ok I will say first of all I respect your opinion, however I think blitz (OTB/online) is good for teaching instinct bullet is just bad for you but blitz helps

Nothing beats tactics though tactics are the best way to get better In two years (after learning how the peices move) I got 1800 at chess because of blitz, tactics and study .

Your posts are starting to become a little bit more reasonable and closer to reality. Believe me, man - I spent a ton of time asking people, researching, reading, etc before I started taking this game seriously. You keep pointing out the benefits of blitz but I think what we need to clarify is that those benefits are enhanced beyond belief if you're playing a lot of long chess in conjunction with any speed chess you are.

You said you're about 1800'ish USCF, right? So then you know how prevalent faster time controls are in the USCF these days. We play multiple games a day to get in tournaments so our games are shorter by necessity. That's not how it is in FIDE. 90+30 for the first 40 moves followed by 30 more minutes after that, continuing the 30 second increment. You don't *need* to be lightning fast and all razor intuitive at a classical time control. There is so much more you should be working on that will absolutely be beneficial to your OTB game than trying to see moves quickly. The thing is that a lot of the tactics, positions, and endgames reached in blitz games don't resemble those in classical games. At all. Most of the tactics available in blitz are simply not there in a long time control. I digress though. A lot of these guys posting in these threads DON'T play OTB like you and I, they don't play long games online, and in some cases they have never played a game that lasted more than an hour. If that. When they come on here and make a thread from a profile with 19,000 bullet games played and not one standard game played, asking how they can improve, of course we're going to swamp them with "stop playing blitz and bullet". For them that IS the first thing they need to do. They have an addiction to it and they're not spending time on any legitimate chess study when they're playing 6 hours of bullet on a weekend afternoon. 

Intution, pattern recognition, clock management in time trouble, opening preparation, etc - All of these things can receive a boost from complimenting your long chess with blitz chess. Again...for guys playing multiple long games a week. Not guys who think a "long game" is a 45/5. 

Basically, that's it. Just choose your words more carefully, you know? If you encourage these idiots and let them think they're going to get to like 1800+ OTB by simply playing blitz...that's what they're going to try and do.

Your posts are starting to become a little bit more reasonable and closer to reality. Believe me, man - I spent a ton of time asking people, researching, reading, etc before I started taking this game seriously. You keep pointing out the benefits of blitz but I think what we need to clarify is that those benefits are enhanced beyond belief if you're playing a lot of long chess in conjunction with any speed chess you are.

You said you're about 1800'ish USCF, right? So then you know how prevalent faster time controls are in the USCF these days. We play multiple games a day to get in tournaments so our games are shorter by necessity. That's not how it is in FIDE. 90+30 for the first 40 moves followed by 30 more minutes after that, continuing the 30 second increment. You don't *need* to be lightning fast and all razor intuitive at a classical time control. There is so much more you should be working on that will absolutely be beneficial to your OTB game than trying to see moves quickly. The thing is that a lot of the tactics, positions, and endgames reached in blitz games don't resemble those in classical games. At all. Most of the tactics available in blitz are simply not there in a long time control. I digress though. A lot of these guys posting in these threads DON'T play OTB like you and I, they don't play long games online, and in some cases they have never played a game that lasted more than an hour. If that. When they come on here and make a thread from a profile with 19,000 bullet games played and not one standard game played, asking how they can improve, of course we're going to swamp them with "stop playing blitz and bullet". For them that IS the first thing they need to do. They have an addiction to it and they're not spending time on any legitimate chess study when they're playing 6 hours of bullet on a weekend afternoon. 

Intution, pattern recognition, clock management in time trouble, opening preparation, etc - All of these things can receive a boost from complimenting your long chess with blitz chess. Again...for guys playing multiple long games a week. Not guys who think a "long game" is a 45/5. 

Basically, that's it. Just choose your words more carefully, you know? If you encourage these idiots and let them think they're going to get to like 1800+ OTB by simply playing blitz...that's what they're going to try and do.