Blitz rating trailing my Daily rating - will it catch up?

Hi everyone, I have just started playing chess again after many years away. 

My blitz rating is much lower than my Daily rating (around 400 lower).  I put the difference down to the lack of blundering opportunities with the Daily game, driven by poor time management. 

Will my blitz game catch up? I think I need to work on my general game, and i can do that with Daily games. 

Thanks 

R

It's the different player pool, and you being rusty and not handling the time-pressure well.

By the player pool I mean that Blitz is the most popular game type on the site and it's a much more competitive pool of players. I think in Daily Chess you also have the ability to significantly increase your rating by just trying harder than the other guy. If you take care over your moves and he/she is making moves quickly or whilst distracted then you'll do better and your rating will raise. It's not an artificial increase because it's a true correspondence chess increase, but it might not necessarily mean you'd play that much better in an OTB situation.

My Blitz rating trails my daily rating by just under 500 points and shows no sign of catching up.

I would just play Rapid/Daily and do tactics puzzles if you're looking to improve your OTB game. Rapid is the most important, but harder to find the time for.

Ratings are relative to the pool. Daily ratings tend to be the highest rating for everyone. Blitz and bullet tend to be the lowest.

Some people new to this concept think, oh, my Daily rating is higher because I have more time. No. Regardless of the time control, both players are given the same amount of time. In blitz both players have less time than Daily.. There is no benefit or handicap.

Daily ratings tend to be higher because more beginners (and less very strong players) play the Daily chess. Another way to say this is that pool of players is weaker, so it's easier to get higher ratings there.

At the other extreme, when professional players play online, they tend to play 5|0 3|0 and 1|0.

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Having said all this, sure, you'll be bad at any new time control, so you can probably make the gap smaller than 400 points.