Just reached 1700 blitz. Am I good yet?

Just reached 1700 blitz. Am I good yet?

Yes. You are very good at blitz time control, you are in the 96th percentile. Congrats!

What blitz time control did you play?  

If you achieved this rating with an increment time controls it's more impressive 

10 mins. no increment. just starting to play more rapid 15+10. finding it harder

It's only more impressive if he's good at bullet.

If someone is slow as a dog during the last 30 seconds then playing with increment will boost their rating, not hurt it.

may not be but should

You rating is 2127 now, play just 10 games of chess with time control 3|2mins and try to maintain it ! Can you ?  Or you know what at least try not to go lower then 21 hundred ! Can you ?  As you say it would be more easier then faster time controls, try it ! I dare you to

No matter the time control, if someone changes from what they normally play they'll struggle a bit at first. It takes time to get used to it, whatever it is.

As far as endgame knowledge, I use that all the time in speed games.

Anyway, I don't completely buy the longer time control ratings are harder idea.

I might be wrong, but it seems to me most GMs play without increment, so it seems those time controls would be harder to get a high rating.

But I don't know if that's true.

If you can reach or maintain same rating in 5|5mins time control, that's impressing 

I agree without being strong in endgame, the improvement of a player plateau. I could achieve higher ratings if I study Endgames. And many of us. But... Studying endgame is really... Boring. It's like eating unseasoned fresh vegetables salad.

Endgames used to be my favorite... they still kind of are.

I thought of tactics as tricks little kids do to win.

Obviously I was an idiot  strong players use anything and everything... but for whatever reason players like Karpov gave me inspiration more than "childish" players like Tal heh.

Titled tuesday is with increments and that's where best of the best play and some high quality games produced. 

Tal and his protege Shirov are actually Endgame Experts. Their Tactical prowess overshadowed their endgame wizardry. Not as great as Karpov ofc.

Titiled Tuesday produces what? A few hundred games once a month?

I'm saying if most games by strong players are without increment then those ratings are harder to get.

But sure, if I were going to pay people to win (and I wanted spectators) I'd rather them play with increment. That way the games don't end with a bunch of cheap speed moves... and frankly a lot of top players are pretty slow when it comes to that stuff. Naka is like, 10x faster than them

Sure, all strong GMs can play any position. Karpov had great attacks, and Kasparov had technical endgames.

In fairness to Modern GMs, they play in faster Classical Time Control so.they looks playing the endgame inferior compare to GMs half century ago. And adjournment helps in playing the endgame with higher precision.

By the way, during round 2 of the candidates they asked Firouja his opinion of who the best speed player was, Carlsen, Naka, or himself.

Even after being reminded of Carlsen's victories over Naka in events like that, he said Naka was the best in the world.

lol