Bobby Fischer: "Blitz chess kills your ideas."

Do you agree or disagree with this famous chess player ?

I dont think it kills your ideas, but i do think blitz does hurt your long game.

“Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.” So Mikhail Botvinnik once famously told Genna Sosonko, but as it turns out that wasn’t entirely true. At the recent evening to mark the centenary of Botvinnik’s birth Mark Taimanov revealed that he once played a blitz match against his mentor.

85-year-old Mark Taimanov was among the 11 legendary chess players who recently took part in a veteran's tournament in Suzdal, near Moscow (10 played rapid chess, while the 89-year-old Yuri Averbakh was the arbiter). On the day that Botvinnik had been born 100 years previously a commemorative evening was held, where Taimanov spoke for almost 15 minutes.

Aside from the Red Bull, it's what's killed Naka.  (note the Past Tense)

I do only play blitz 0_0

Great chess players are known to be masters at blitz too. But I personally feel that too much blitz can make you impatient at classical chess, and make you an addict of instant gratification.

Also Carlsen is the top rated blitz player.

I've read that Bobby's mentor, Jack Collins, pushed him to play blitz in order to speed up his thinking a bit since, as a kid, Bobby tended to get into time pressure.

chessmickey please stop posting. You are a troll and don't add anything to any discussion. 

Note Fischer didn't say, "Blitz chess is bad for your game." He said, "Blitz chess kills your ideas." By that I think he meant that you don't come up with any meaningful NEW ideas when playing blitz. Too bad we can't ask him to clarify his statement. Even if he were still around and was asked, he'd probably say that, "Jews invented blitz chess to kill the ideas of Gentiles."

MOST (not all) top chess players are also top blitz players. They are good because they have awesome (superior) chess knowledge (and pattern recognition) and can "automatically" play good moves most of the time.

Yeah. And probably if he played only blitz, he'd get worse at standard. One can see this happening for any great player.

Kills what ideas?  I don't have general ideas, I try to have ideas specific to whatever position I'm in which will obviously be in either a Blitz game or not a Blitz game.

I get it, you rely less on deep analysis and creative ideas on positions when you play blitz. I'd agree, I'll limit my fast play now. Thanks!

When you blitz is much higher than your OTB, then give people blitz advice.

When you OTB is much higher, give OTB advice.

If you're a world champion, you can give any kind of chess advice you wish ;)

It takes time to form an idea. Bobby Fischer is right.

Bullet and blitz develops bad habits.

• "Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess." – Vladimir Kramnik^[49]
• "Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." – Mikhail Botvinnik^[49]
• "He who analyses blitz is stupid." – Rashid Nezhmetdinov^[49]
• "Blitz chess kills your ideas." – Bobby Fischer^[49]
• "To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." – Vladimir Kramnik^[50]
• "Blitz – it's just a pleasure." – Vladimir Kramnik^[51]
• "I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." – Nigel Short^[52]
• "Blitz is simply a waste of time." – Vladimir Malakhov^[53]

Must be a total accident that most of the best Blitz players in the world are also the best classical players.