Blitz for Beginners

I would like to become a much better player, for some reason I think that if I force myself to think quicker i would improve in the regular matches.

Play Longer Time Controls...

For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours.  Or being fortunate enough to be able to exploit your opponent’s blunders before they exploit yours.

There is little time to think about what you should be doing.

It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills.

An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.

This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow time controls or daily games, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.

Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources

and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours

resources for chess improvement....check it out...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

Any time control works if you're having fun with it.

However, if you're trying to become better at chess you should stay away from very fast time controls, same as 'correspondence' games. Chess is mostly about understanding what is being asked from you (the problems on the board) and then choosing how to answer (the moves). Then it's better to develop precision first and speed later. On 'correspondence' games, there's little to no pressure to be efficient at finding the problems and the methods to solve them.

No. And what RussBell said.

Absolutely not. If you are a beginner you don't know very much about openings, strategy, tactics  etc. You need to take the time to read/study, then play much longer time control games to really see and try to understand each position and what is happening in the game. You cannot possibly do any of this playing fast time control games when just learning the nuances of the game. Good luck.

@NotAPhenom -

Lots of instructive stuff here for beginners....check it out...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

I suck at blitz, I seem to find winning positions only to lose on time way to often.  Now I don't play it that much, but have been playing recently, just to try and improve my blitz skills.  I marvel at how effortlessly some of the IM and GM streamers play so well in blitz games, and so I'm sure there is nothing wrong with playing some blitz, as long as your enjoying it.

as far as improving your game, a beginner needs to work through all or many lessons, which there are many of on chess.com.  I'd say if your working to improve your game, while playing mostly longer time controls, mixing in some blitz if fine for a beginner. 

Well I am just a beginner 1400 rated, but in my opinion blitz and Rapid games (or even longer) are very differents. In blitz your objetive is to prepare small threats and wait your oponnent to make a mistake. Howewer  in longer time controls you have to find the best move... Beacause these little threats are easy to be defended if you have enough time to think.

So, my advice is to play rapid games... I recently started, and its way better to improve. After these games you can do a deep analyse and really understand what you did wrong.

Like every skill I can think of, the ability to be fast an accurate comes from many hours of first being slow and accurate.

There's no such thing as a beginner who skips straight to speedy skills. It's always slow and precise first. For chess, and everything else.

Not necessarily, I once saw a player lose on time in an easily drawn endgame when there was 5 second increment.

My post related past experience with present performance.

Your post talked about a game you saw once without making a connection to what I said.

And even if players don't have bad days or bad games (they do) I only claimed slow and careful play was necessary, not sufficient, for the ability to be fast and accurate.

@An_asparagusic_acid : He had a phone call to attend.

Blitz chess can help  your classical chess, by improving your intuition.

Think of anything in life that you learned to do.  Now ask yourself: "How many of those things did i learn to do by going fast?"

Meh.

Playing over GM games builds intuition.

Playing blitz... improves short bursts of quick calculation? Can be good opening / early mid game practice? Probably those, but I don't think it's good for intuition.

It depends, if you play blitz the same way you would play a classical game, yourintuition will improve significantly from 1000 games a year. Unless if your intuition is over 1700 fide, you can improve your intuition significantly by playing 3 blitz games a year.

I think blitz is useful to help gain experience. Especially young improving players can play 1000s of games and get a lot of experience... of course they also play lots of OTB too. Blitz is only part of the puzzle.

I don't know if I'd say it improves "intuition" but other than semantics we might not disagree.

Another benefit is that it can help beginners tactical skills.

I know 2 guys that made it to USCF Expert on nothing but tactics, and playing funky openings like the halloween/frankenstein or whatever its called gambit.  They do very well at their level.  But anytime they have to play in the Open section of a tournament, they get destroyed.  Chess is just something fun for them, so its not a big deal to them.