People obsessed by blitz and openings

Blitz and Opening Theory are Chess! I think the point that he was trying to make was beginners are not going to become great players from blitz games and studying openings. The game has 3 phases, plus TACTICS-TACTICS-TACTICS. And you are not going to absorb a game position in a 2 min bullet game. (however a pretty good game can be played in a 10 min game) The more time you spend on a position the more you will understand it.

You haven’t played him in bullet chess on the internet either?

No, I don’t like playing bullet chess at all. To be honest, I consider it a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it. But he’s very strong when he plays with little time. On the internet it’s also important how quickly you handle your mouse, so that here it’s a slightly different game. But I think that he’s one of the favourites for the World Blitz Championship, though not more so than three or four other players. We’ll see, perhaps I’m wrong. I’ve got a tournament now, so it’s a bit too soon to be thinking about blitz.

--Kramnik

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. - Nigel Short

In blitz, the knight is stronger than the bishop.  -  Vlastmil Hort

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.  -  Vladimir Kramnik

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.  - Anatoly Karpov

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.  - Mikhail Botvinnik

He who analyses blitz is stupid.  -  Rashid Nezhmetdinov

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.  -  Viswanathan Anand

Blitz chess kills your ideas.  -  Bobby Fischer

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won. - Alexander Alekhine