Blitz Chess is the only real Chess

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Mikhail Botvinnik: "yes i have played a blitz game once. it was on a train in 1929."

Bobby Fischer: "blitz chess kills your ideas"

Nigel Short: "i play way too much blitz chess. it rots the brain as surely as alchohol"

 

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hola

 

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JustARandomPatzer wrote:
Even you must see that OP's point is arguable at best.

I think the OP didn't express himself very well and might just lack some experience.

Obviously the duration of your thought process during a game is not indicative of anything, but I believe what he means to challenge is the quite prevalent and misguided view, most commonly perpetuated by antiquated, conceded GMs and beginners who blindly regurgitate their ramblings, that Blitz games somehow require less skill and understanding of the game than longer time controls, when it is very clear that this is not the case.

Longer time controls are employed by serious tournaments and beginners who are still honing their skills.

The majority of advanced play, especially considering online games, occurs in the Blitz realm nowadays, that fact is simply self-evident.

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Are Blitz games most commonly discussed in the Informant?

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Colby-Covington wrote:

… It's the same principle of a school exam or any testing scenario, where you have to perform under a tight schedule and won't be granted near unlimited time. ...

Are Nobel prizes awarded on the basis of performance on a test?

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Colby-Covington wrote:
JustARandomPatzer wrote:
Even you must see that OP's point is arguable at best.

I think the OP didn't express himself very well and might just lack some experience.

Obviously the duration of your thought process during a game is not indicative of anything, but I believe what he means to challenge is the quite prevalent and misguided view, most commonly perpetuated by antiquated, conceded GMs and beginners who blindly regurgitate their ramblings, that Blitz games somehow require less skill and understanding of the game than longer time controls, when it is very clear that this is not the case.

Longer time controls are employed by serious tournaments and beginners who are still honing their skills.

The majority of advanced play, especially considering online games, occurs in the Blitz realm nowadays, that fact is simply self-evident.

It has nothing to do with OP's thread at all.

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Of course it does, the title of this topic is "Blitz chess is the only chess".🤨

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How much of New in Chess magazine is a discussion of Blitz chess?

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Very true
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If blitz is the "real" chess it's strange that all the best blitz players are top GMs who learned the game playing hundreds of OTB classical games, and there are no players who concentrated on blitz that can hold their own in a classical game vs a strong GM.

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