Hikaru Nakamura is a streamer, not a chess player, and so whatever he spouts about chess is nothing more than nonsense.
"He who analyzes blitz is stupid"
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warherd wrote:
Hikaru Nakamura is a streamer, not a chess player, and so whatever he spouts about chess is nothing more than nonsense.
Take a moment to Google "top 10 Chess players"
Aug 31, 2022
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That's irrelevant, the Naka said he's a streamer and not a chess player, and I totally believe him.
Blitz is really just too fast paced, fun though
The worse I play blitz games, the higher blitz rating I get. I have recently gained around 50 blitz points on this website and 50 blitz points on another chess website. It took me around 20 games on another website and 13 games on this website. Maybe the sample size is too small, but the only more or less clear pattern that I have noticed in those 30+ games is that I was playing worse than usual and that I was also playing faster. I have heard a joke saying that for blitz one needs to "play bad moves fast", but maybe the truth isn't far off.
Personally, in blitz you just need to outlast your opponent. doesn't teach you much about chess but is very fun
People here are so presumptuous that they cannot understand the time in which this comment was made. Everybody is talking about bullet, online chess, and using engines. Those didn't exist in Nezmetidinov's time. You had to remember a blitz game in those days. Some of you cannot play over your classical games without a scoresheet. Imagine having to remember a blitz game and hoping you didn't get your moves transposed. It makes no sense to debate how this comment would be perceived today. It's a completely different time.
It helps a lot. It's not like you learn everything from games, but it helps you to develop a habit to analyse games.
There are more stupid people than smart people.
Oct 30, 2023
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tygxc wrote:
There are more stupid people than smart people.
This may be a tragic reality but it has nothing to do with the need to analyze a game afterward to see what went wrong.
IronSteam1 wrote:
dpfotis wrote:
What do you think of this famous Nezhmetdinov quote? Is it really stupid to analyse blitz games?
I completely disagree with it. Analyzing leads to greater understanding. It doesn't matter what timer the positions arose from - most games have something you can learn from.
Compare these two players, for example:
Player A plays blitz, and never analyzes his games.
Player B plays blitz, and analyzes all of his games.
Which player do you think will learn more?
Do they invest the same amount of time?
Haha tygxc that's true but not related to this forum. Why would people pay for membership when they won't even analyse games?
In every game there is something to learn
helps improve on the skills you need for blitz, like patterns you should memorise, time management, just seeing where you make errors seems like a good step
after all, everyone has the same time control so if youre dedicated to blitz do it, but doing too much quick blitz could screw your thinking skills for rapid around
(coming from a 900 elo rapid:
Blitz, isn´t that the kind of chess where one analyzes ones moves in retrospect instead before one makes them? Has always seemed stupid to me.
Yes if you lost bad or played good
hermanjohnell wrote:
Blitz, isn´t that the kind of chess where one analyzes ones moves in retrospect instead before one makes them? Has always seemed stupid to me.
I'd say more accurately: Blitz is the kind of chess where one learns to streamline your thinking, to ignore irrelevant details, and to calculate faster.
There's very little time for leisurely, exploratory thinking. On each move you have to identify the needs of the position, and come up with practical solutions ASAP.
Efficiency is the name of the game.
I think bullet would solve this quarrel as well