More like gambling I think! I'm sure it doesn't help the real game but its kind of fun if you don't mind getting beaten by players several hundred points lower than yourself and wondering how they played so well! ie a fair bit of cheating goes on I think! You can tell when it happens. I'm leaning toward 3 minute as the best as its harder for folks to cheat and more about response and tactics..
Are bullet and blitz chess real chess ?
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I guess a someone rated 1400 could never lose to someone 1200....
anybody that does that must be cheating.... that's a pretty idiotic statement I think
tranlam7801 wrote:
Blitz chess isn't real chess, but it helps you improve your tactic vision.
No, absolutely positively NOT true.
Blitz chess tests your ability to play good chess even under time pressure ...
No, bullet and blitz chess are not real types of chess, because you don't have time to think at both games. Real chess is about thinking and generally the longer you think, the more powerful move you can come up with.
Blitz games is for all those who have attained a high standard ofchess knowledge. For beginners more pull-down game blitz.
If you're good in the standard you're almost as good and in the blitz
AceOfGreens wrote:
No, bullet and blitz chess are not real types of chess, because you don't have time to think at both games. Real chess is about thinking and generally the longer you think, the more powerful move you can come up with.
By this definition, anything less than correspondence chess is not real chess.
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blitz makes you take hasty decision and the fact that they "work" ecourages you to make them more and play very fast when you're supposed to analyse carefully; same thing goes to TT :D
Below master level, too much bullet is definitely bad for your chess.
I'm saying below master level it is bad because at a lower level you should be spending time working on your calculation to make you a stronger and more consistant player. Bullet at that level just teaches you how to be unreliable with your thoughts. It hasn't got anything to do with your rating to have the common sense to understand this.
At master level you have bulit in the consistancy to be able to play bullet without letting it hinder you in any shape or form.
Well I'm not that bad actually - I have beaten masters over the board before. You can't judge me purely on my online games.
I have beaten a master in blitz and my fide rating is 1800. Is it so unheard of for an 1800 to beat a CM in a blitz game?
Well your observation seems somewhat distorted and biased.
chessdr1118 escribió:
I have beaten a master in blitz and my fide rating is 1800. Is it so unheard of for an 1800 to beat a CM in a blitz game?
No.
And this is not even my regular account.
I think blitz allows for some general strategic ideas to be employed...I can totally understand what Fischer meant by that statement though. In blitz, your thought process is extremely narrow, there's no room for creativity or subtle ideas. You generally recycle the same ideas over and over again in each game.
As for bullet chess - especially 1|0, I believe it is a completely different game to standard chess - almost a variant in the sense that the use of the clock becomes the most significant factor in the strategy. With 2|1 or something this probably wouldn't be the case.