Some people are good at blitz/bullet chess. Others are good at OTB chess. Still others are good at both. You seem to fit the OTB chess category. It's okay to not be good at blitz. If you improve your blitz skills though you can play better and faster on OTB games. I guess you can say they are separate skills if you are used to slow moves where you take your time.
Hope this answers your question.
yeh ive always wondered that too..my blitz rating use to be 500 ratings less but as i worked on it i got it up about 200 points and that ddnt really affect my regular game
"Some people are good at blitz/bullet chess. Others are good at OTB chess. Still others are good at both."
Good lord, chessbeginner77, I think that's the most neutral answer I've ever read.
They are not entirely different skills, it's the same game. Though many OTB organisations issue two ratings (one Standard, one Rapid) the difference between the two is usually less than 5%. Indeed, my rapid rating is some 2 or 3 % higher than my standard one (unusually). It's okay to suck at blitz only if you think it is (and your mates don't take the mickey, too often). A young fellow, such as yourself, should be able to close the gap with some practice. Diamond membership means that you can pass every LiveChess game through the site analysis tool, providing some scope for improvement.
That's the best answer i can come up with since i play well on both turn based and blitz/bullet chess.
Chessbeginner77, the next thread that comes up that asks: "Can I win this position?" I'm just going to say,"It ain't over, till it's over."
That's the best answer i can come up with since i play well on both turn based and blitz/bullet chess.
I wouldn't call 1200 playing well.
I learned chess through playing blitz, so think improving your blitz will improve your overall game
it actually works backwards. the stronger you get at longer chess, the quicker you'll be able to see tactcis and variations in quicker chess. at least that's the way it worked for me lol. i'm still not very strong in either, but i can play a competitive 1 0 game now, whereas a year ago i was total garbage.
long chess prepares us for everything :).
I was wondering about this too. My blitz is about 500 less than my standard...but then...I discovered that 8 minutes with 10 sec increment additions are still called blitz...so I think it's gonna go up. lol
I think blitz and standard are both important and interesting. I am not sure about bullet, this does seem to be too much about speed. Also on the Internet even blitz can often be seriously affected by lag so I usually play it with increments.
The dufferential increases with age blitz is for the young
You shouldn't feel too bad (I'm the same way). Blitz is basically "who can do best without thinking". Pattern recognition and tactics are very predominant, giving you little chance to use your knowledge about the game.
No, it's not o.k. for a young fellow like you with a full head of hair to suck at blitz, or anything for that matter. I'm old with no hair. Old farts like me have excuses to suck at anything and everything.
Seriously, as a diamond member, exercise that young mind of yours daily with the tactics trainer. Knuckle down and work hard. No more excuses! 
No surprise that nearly ALL of the best speed players "just" happen to be the best slow game players. If you understand how important muscle memory is for any skill, you'll realize that split-second intuition is a stew that is best cooked with hours of slow + serious games so that you burn patterns into your head.
yes. i suck too ... i'm absolutely crap at fast games. even with a real board in front of me, i sometimes struggle. i'm better with a coffee in my hands and time to use the analysis function ... lol
My Standard and Blitz ratings both stay at around 1550 but thats because I always play 14 minute Blitz games and 15 minute Standard games. 1 minute hardly makes a difference. What is the usual length of your Standard and Blitz games?
Is it important? Well if you're terrible at blitz I would guess it means you're not good at calcuation when you can't move the pieces.
BTW Almost every user here has turn based rating 200-500 points higher than their live chess ratings -- and every player who's posted their national/FIDE rating I've noticed their turn-based is again 200-500 points higher.
That's not to say the blitz rating is comparable to a national rating -- I think the blitz ratings on this site are also a bit inflated.
And btw I think you play better than what your blitz rating shows. If you practiced some more blitz I'm sure it'd go up fast.
Sure, it's ok. But just like with any other time rules, you will get better by studying and playing. Blitz is no different.
No surprise that nearly ALL of the best speed players "just" happen to be the best slow game players. If you understand how important muscle memory is for any skill, you'll realize that split-second intuition is a stew that is best cooked with hours of slow + serious games so that you burn patterns into your head.
Actually, there are even 1700s in blitz who I've played before (quite rarely though) and guess what, I didn't respect them at all, because I actually knew more about chess than they did. Yeah I lost those games ( understanding is not so important in these time controls, they get their wins differently...) but if they were long games I'm pretty confident I would beat them. Trying to be really good at blitz in general only makes you particularly good in blitz. It's very counter intuitive because that extra knowledge can sometimes clog your blitz game with too many ideas, but those ideas are really (to me anyways) what chess is all about.
I have no idea why the us championship (and I think world championship and other major events as well) have sudden death blitz. What on earth is wrong with some slow sudden death games? I don't care if it takes longer, blitz isn't what I want to see at an official thing like that.
I suck at blitz chess. My blitz rating is about 600 points worse than my standard rating. If I've learned anything, it's this: when I actually get to think about my moves for a few minutes, I'm pretty decent.
So, this might sound like a weird question, but is it important for me to work on my blitz abilities? Will it help strengthen my regular game? Or are they two separate skill sets?