You play the moves you know in the opening quickly, your "repertoire". And only stop to evaluate when things get interesting and you sense some complications or tactics in the air, which can use up some time of course. But it's blitz. So you want to make sure that at least 50% of your moves are just practical, decent moves that don't eat up too much time. Only stop to calculate when you feel necessary.
How on earth can you calculate in blitz chess?
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thanks! found that useful!
May 12, 2021
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Just get fast at calculating. You can’t just pause in blitz and calculate every check, capture, threat at every move. You need to just glance at a move and refute it in a split of a second. You really need a good pattern recognition instead of having to ‘pause’
May 12, 2021
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marqumax wrote:
Just get fast at calculating. You can’t just pause in blitz and calculate every check, capture, threat at every move. You need to just glance at a move and refute it in a split of a second. You really need a good pattern recognition instead of having to ‘pause’
+1 and lots of calculating in the opponent's turn and anticipating their moves before they play them so you already have half of your response thought out 
Pattern recognition helps a ton for obvious reasons.
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