Blitz and Bullet are not chess
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I'm not very good so unless I'm playing with someone worse than me I don't usually win so really I play them and hope I can outlast them
These are all different ways to play chess. You shouldn't be restricted to the standard chess at classical time controls. Variants are fun!
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Here in chess.com there is two time limit in bullet chess, one minute and two minutes, the one minute is absolutely bad for your chess below master level and the two minutes is acceptable but still not good for your chess. Bullet develops bad habits, like blundering and moving quickly without thinking or calculating. In blitz you still have time to calculate and play a good game.
The great Bobby Fischer once remarked that blitz chess isn't really chess. I more or less agree. It isn't "real" chess. But it's fun.
I'm sure someone has said this before, but blitz and bullet are the things keeping chess alive. In the age if instant gratification many people have absolutely no interest in playing a 3 hour game of chess. One of the main reasons tournaments, grandmasters, sponsors, etc. are suffering from low or no money and lack of interest is because chess is boring and takes too long. Someone more informed than me could probably answer this, which has more viewers in a tournament, the long games or the short games?
It's just a matter of opinion. I love bullet!
They play rapid too. Besides, nobody's being restricted to bullet. Anyone who likes it can play it.
I love bullet since i played almost 4000 games in 4 months
yureesystem wrote:
Here in chess.com there is two time limit in bullet chess, one minute and two minutes, the one minute is absolutely bad for your chess below master level and the two minutes is acceptable but still not good for your chess. Bullet develops bad habits, like blundering and moving quickly without thinking or calculating. In blitz you still have time to calculate and play a good game.
I view bullet games from a different angle. Bullet trains me to play instinctively, which I need in blitz and will be occasionally useful in rapid and standard games. After all, if both players utilise their time fully, a particular game might be reduced to simply minutes or even seconds on the clock, where bullet skills will then kick in if the increments are not sufficient to tide both players. Standard games will be good when the time permits for both players and deeper calculation skills are desired to bring about a higher quality of games.
Unfortunately, now I play bullet simply for leisure, not for improving my instincts.
One-million-games wrote:
I love bullet since i played almost 4000 games in 4 months
I thought you would have played a total of One-million-games in 4 months.
eric0022 wrote:
yureesystem wrote:
Here in chess.com there is two time limit in bullet chess, one minute and two minutes, the one minute is absolutely bad for your chess below master level and the two minutes is acceptable but still not good for your chess. Bullet develops bad habits, like blundering and moving quickly without thinking or calculating. In blitz you still have time to calculate and play a good game.
I view bullet games from a different angle. Bullet trains me to play instinctively, which I need in blitz and will be occasionally useful in rapid and standard games. After all, if both players utilise their time fully, a particular game might be reduced to simply minutes or even seconds on the clock, where bullet skills will then kick in if the increments are not sufficient to tide both players. Standard games will be good when the time permits for both players and deeper calculation skills are desired to bring about a higher quality of games.
Unfortunately, now I play bullet simply for leisure, not for improving my instincts.
For entertainment I guess is fun but in most bullet games there is a lot blunders even among GMs, this alone is bad for your chess. In your game lagaffe1er you had crushing move 20.d4 Nxf2 21.dxc5, black is dead lost but because of speed you miss this move; like I said bullet is bad for anyone chess skill. The reason why I played 2 minute is to get quicker so in case of a tied break I wouldn't lose in blitz game, sometime a otb tournament is decided on a blitz game.
Sep 18, 2017
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I agree that blitz is not real chess.
Blitz chess is much like drilling multiplication tables. The answer/best move is to be found right away, without any consideration of big picture connections. Real math and real chess are all about the big picture connections. Without those, you're just pretending.
The best strategy for blitz is to create discovered long diagonal attacks, because unless it's the obvious fianchettoed bishop, a lot of the time your opponent won't see it. Actual chess requires much more subtlety.
Sep 18, 2017
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socrates123b wrote:
I agree that blitz is not real chess.
Blitz chess is much like drilling multiplication tables. The answer/best move is to be found right away, without any consideration of big picture connections. Real math and real chess are all about the big picture connections. Without those, you're just pretending.
The best strategy for blitz is to create discovered long diagonal attacks, because unless it's the obvious fianchettoed bishop, a lot of the time your opponent won't see it. Actual chess requires much more subtlety.
what are you talking about? people do not fianchetto bishops in blitz, and masters or even very weak players can see that there is a bishop there. You are ABSOLUTELY wrong about this fact. Blitz is very much chess, just a different time control
players play, enjoying the day:) be versatile my frenz
backwardinduction wrote:
Unless you have a really high rating and fast mind, blitz and bullet are not chess at all. I have watch several fast games here on chess.com and find that blitz and bullet are way more popular than standard game. In most blitz and bullet games, even high rating players make stupid moves so frequently, the only thing matters is time. Although some players are so good that they can make checkmate in 5 seconds, most players can not do that at all. So far as I see, chess is a game that need careful thinking and careful thinking takes time. Moving pieces just to see who can move faster is kind of childish, this make chess ugly. I suggest chess.com forbid those players whose rating lower than 2200 playing blitz or bullet.
Why forbid people under 2200 from playing blitz or bullet? 1st o9f all blitz IS enough time to play a casual chess game. 2nd, people only have a limited amount of time for a games. Who wants to spend 1 hour on 1 chess game. I like 5 min. it's enough time to calculate, but not too long that the game drags on an on.
Anything under 2 min l 1 sec is not real chess.
chess Blitz and Bullets are the perfect description of life, in fact more relatable than the long games, because you will find that there is not enough time to sort out your problems which àlways seem to come thick and fast, further more even the pro(s) make stupid blunders just like in the real life setting
Since we need someone else on here with an opinion... I hated bullet chess when I played it. Then I had this liberating revelation, I don't have to play it! Watching me play bullet is not chess. It's fruit basket upset with funny shaped pieces. I enjoy correspondence chess and play lots of 15+15 that provides all the thinking time I need to make a mediocre move! When I want to practice something new or just have ten minutes to satisfy my addiction, 5+3 is how I roll!