blitz & bullet games for beginners
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Bullet is death for a beginner. Blitz is also not so useful. At least 10 minutes for each would be fine. 15+10 would be perfect. (It's my opinion).
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People who say bullet and blitz are bad for your chess are way off. I started a few years ago around 1100 bullet, and made essentially all of my progress playing 95% bullet with some blitz. Bullet allows you to play lots of games, so you start seeing patterns and develop better intuition and judgement.
@OP
in terms of TIME (not games)
you should probably be spending MORE time playing slow chess;
such that maybe
1/3 or so of your game time is blitz. and LESS if you have a smaller program.
while blitz skills CAN be good and useful-- you simply Don't have time to work out the the deep middlegame combinations and the endgame.
one great solution is to play in a chess club a little study those games and take a day a week and play blitz here....
but I don't think Blitz is bad for the beginner- just that it needs to be a LIMITED part of your chess improvement program.
First thing to realize is that Blitz, Bullet and Standard are different but related games. Stud, Hold'em and Draw are all in the poker family but played differently. Certain skills transfer between them. Chances are that you will be better at one than another no matter what you do.
I play a lot of 30min and 15min games.. and I hate to blitz, because it doesnt allow u calculate much.. I feel beauty of chess most of the times is to calculate and finding the right moves..
I used to think chess is chess, so bullet/blitz/960/killer/etc. should all be just as effective at improving my game. Now that I'm a bit more experienced, I agree with posts from others that 30+ min standard chess games are best for improvement. But that doesn't mean the other chess variants aren't fun; and I still like playing them.
May 3, 2017
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It helps you practice traps/tricks but if you play any decent player the things your learn don't translate. I catch a lot of people playing weak openings because they work in bullet
As a beginner, the likelihood of having a decent thought process is extremely low. As such, playing games where you are forced to rely on your current thought process will only reinforce bad habits. Thus, it will make it more difficult to improve later.
You get faster by having a good thought process and recognizing things faster. You do not get better by playing fast with a poor thought process.
Additionally, if you play blitz, use it to practice your openings and make sure to look up your openings after the games to see where you went wrong.
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Do they contribute to a beginner's development? If so, what proportion of practice should be devoted to them?