Their movement is harder to visualise, in blitz it's easy to leave yourself open to a knight fork.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1479789
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP11_65zJsc
Blitz Chess: Knights vs Bishops
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Here's a quote on blitz chess that I recently found:
"In blitz, the knight is stronger than the bishop." – Vlastimil Hort
I don't play blitz very often, and in regular chess I prefer bishops to knights, so I don't really understand this statement. Could someone explain to me why this is the case?