How to get better in games with fast time controls?

Zborg's advice amounts to "play slower chess".

I don't really have many resources to "study" chess. Also, here it is nearly impossible to get a seek with a time control of 30|0+ accepted here.

Btw, it certainly doesn't depend on my age, I'm under 14. :P

It doesn't for me! I still have a tendancy to either move too fast, or take too much time in 3 minute games.

you actually hurt your chess by playing blitz and bullet chess. You learn to play impulsive moves. Titles aren't given for fast time controls, and if you beat a titled player he still has his title after the game and you don't. Get good at slow chess first, then return to blitz later, if you really want to get better at it. you will find mastering slow chess is what it takes.

Ok, thanks!

Play standard games more often, people find it hard to believe that this is the way to play blitz faster, but think about it and you will see its true, make sure you have learned and understood whatever opening you play and be wary of the common counter-tactics, this always saves you time and practice with longer games makes you more decisive and experienced so blitz games the time issue isn't so scary anymore. 

Thank you everyone for all the helpful comments. :)

If you play a lot of slow chess, then you can think a lot about a move, so you become better and some moves become more intuitive, so you become better also at fast chess.

Thanks! :)

I disagree strongly with Aww-rats. And Nakamura, Vachier-Lagrave, Caruana, Carlsen, and a slew of world champion contenders apparently do too. They all play blitz and bullet chess regularly and often against each other online.

I do agree with his argument that you should get good at slow chess, but do both at the same time. Adriaan de Groot has shown that experience is one of the key ingredients to getting better at chess. Blitz and bullet chess gives you experience in many different positions. 

The key though, and it's important to remember this, is that fast chess is not a substitute for analysing positions deeply. 

And if you find yourself thinking too superficially, lay off the fast chess for a while. 

But again, the very best players in the world play blitz and bullet chess. And they got good while playing those ultra-fast time controls! They probably know what they're doing.

Yes, but these top-GM learned to play very good slow chess before, so playing a lot of blitz don't hurt their ability of playing slow chess.

+1

That may be a +1, but it's wrong.

Hikaru Nakamura famously played thousands upon thousands of bullet chess games against all comers for hours and hours on end on ICC. For a long time, he was laughed at for the time he was wasting playing bullet chess. 

I'm not recommending following in Naka's footsteps, but the statement that they got good first is just false.

But did bullet chess exist in the time of Capablanca and Alekhine? Certainly that's not how the became great players.

That is very true. I am 1500 in blitz 1600 in rapid and aboout 1800 in standard.

Something similar for me.

1461 in bullet.

1429 in blitz 

1522 in standard.

ChessGm, yes, blitz chess did exist, and yes, Alekhin and Capa were excellent at it! There are stories of Alekhin dominating blitz tournaments at the Marshall Chess Club when he visited there. 

The only world champion who didn't excel at blitz was Mikhail Botvinnik. When asked when the last time he played blitz, he claimed that he had only played it once, on a train.

Every world champion since Botvinnik  (Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, and Anand) have all excelled at blitz chess.

That's all because they played standard chess before that.

Btw, Caruana, Nakamura and Vachier-Lagrave are all playing in elite tournaments this week if you want to see how well they play. Caruana was seen here playing tons of bullet chess just before he left for the tournament!

Bullet is good for noticing tactics quickly, and to be skilled at bullet, you should know how to play standard.