"..., you have to make a decision: have tons of fun playing blitz (without learning much), or be serious and play with longer time controls so you can actually think.
One isn’t better than another. Having fun playing bullet is great stuff, while 3-0 and 5-0 are also ways to get your pulse pounding and blood pressure leaping off the charts. But will you become a good player? Most likely not.
Of course, you can do both (long and fast games), ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (June 9, 2016)https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive
occz wrote (~1 day ago): "i would like to play longer games but blitz is so addictive"
tipish wrote (~2 hours ago):
so we got today GM Daniel Naroditsky to write up an article to chess.com on how important is to play blitz to get better in general. he even shows how he used blitz skills to survive on OTB. you guys shouldn't let that happened some major outcry from the otb otb otb obsessed should rather happen asap... now looking fwd for Andrew Tang's article to rest my case.
Do we see anything in the article about trying to improve and not playing "with longer time controls so you can actually think"?
"... There are very few chess players whose interest in the classical form of the game isn’t equaled — or even superseded — by a fascination with blitz. ..."
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-blitz-chess-manifesto
Chess isn't wasting time if you have fun and use your brain! And meet new people.. and so on.
Believing bullet/blitz improves your chess, is like saying i learned to read by speed reading.
I learned to walk by running ...
Eggszackly!
I learned to drive, by playing GTA.