don't forget the third type, with bullet rating of 2000+, that would require multiple skills: 1)split second judgement 2) Very execellent reflexes as they can make 3 moves in 2 seconds. So how would they do at analyzing? :D
The two types of chess player
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Have you ever thought, "why do I lose so easily at blitz when I'm 1500 playing turn-based," or vice versa. I have. After playing lots of blitz games and always losing I came to a conclusion, that there are two types of chess players. The first type is good at blitz because he/she can see the whole board and factor everything in at once to make a move. The second type is good at longer games because he has time to slowly look at each part of a position separately and finally make a move.
The second type of chessplayer may make stronger moves than the first, but if both types of chessplayers were each given a complex position and and fifteen minutes to find the best move, the strengths of the players would be judged at around the same level. That is because the first type of player would be able to analyze the whole board deeper than usual and the second type would, as usual, analyze better but not have time to look at everything.
The strength of the second player is that at a certain point the first type of player, while analyzing the whole board can only analyze so deeply. The second type of chessplayer can analyze much deeper because he is only looking at one aspect at a time. So to be a successful chessplayer you must be able to do both. To work on this you must play both turn-based and blitz games.
P.S. please join my team, the chess mongers! =)