Blitz - harmful or not?

Pretty simple really, and Bur_Oak touched on this. Blitz allows players to go through games extremely rapidly. The best contributions probably would include understanding material sacrifice, traps, and sharp openings very well (due to high rate of games played). However, these players would undoubtedly miss out on the more "positional" aspect. The longer time constraints give a player the oportunity to develop in depth analytical skills, giving them the ability to navigate a complex position with accuracy. Closed positions and long term advantages are also better understood as a result. So Blitz games does not hurt gameplay really, it just develops a different aspect of the same game. :)

Blitz might for example be helpful in practising your (new) openings.

No. It teaches you how to analyze the board faster

Don't worry, I'm still here.

Once I had a Queen and a king vs. a king and I still got a draw

Don't brag about that.

If you got nine queens and a king versus a king and got a draw...wow..brag about that

Yeah, its not something im too proud of. :/

Yeah that's true most 1400 blitz players don't know how or use the longest method to mate with a king and rook vs king... I (1600) got laughed at in the endgame against a 1550 because he thought I didn't know how to mate with a rook. The fact is I do.. U practice all these things in blitz.. I haven't played standard in goodness know how long.. Though if u like your blitz rating that much but want to play longer games play a 10 minute match

And you (maybe) notice that without zugzwang, K + R vs K would be a draw. 

Anand's career started with blitz tournaments. He is quite good right now, last time I checked he won a World Championsship match against Gelfand.

When i was High School we did drills on this situation.

Why? We had the 21 move rule which means if you do not mate in 21 moves it is a draw. So we praticed mating with:    practice this

King and Queen vs King

King and Rook vs King

King and 2 Rooks vs King   (mainly using the 2 Rooks)

King and 2 Bishops vs King

King and Pawn vs King    (the pawn can not be  Rook pawn  a or h-pawn)

How about in Blitz?  Tic, tic, tic..............  Not so easy if your opponent knows how to mate with them also so they know what squares to avoid and then add in the "Draw rules" here. The advantage has to be forced.

Almost and Never....... something is wrong here. Which one is it?

Well we know it can not be never else you would have just said never. And you must be playing an easy time game. The GM's run out of time.

it's all over in a hurricane, faster than you can say "i broke my bra".

@ HuricaneMichael1

Does your keyboard have an apostrophe?

' .... correct (apostrophe)

`.... wrong (grave accent)

And yet this response would seem to suggest otherwise... 

Still, at least that did serve to remind me of Egbert Souse...

Could^ve been worse.

Agree with Andy here.