Tip For Beginners: Play A Lot Of 5/0 Blitz

Erm... AHEM... I mean... How could I put it without being hurtfull?

What clue can you actually have of what is good and what is bad for a beginner striving to reach out for a better level, when you're such a beginner yourself with you pityfull 1200???

If you don't have time for a rapid (not it's not a "long game" wtf??), do some reading and studying instead, starting with pawns endgames, mother of all endgames, that teaches you among other things, when it's suitable to trade your last piece in an endgame and go for the pawn endgames.

Get spirited and inspired by reading History of Chess and Chess Champions, including their games (you can use a tiny flat magnetic chess set for that if nothing better).

No, you don't start building a house by the roof. And no, you can't provide advices to go beyond your own level.

That patzers convention crack had me rolling and I loved your topic on Jennifer Shahade being the most beautiful chess player in the world. The reason I know you wrote it is because I looked at your profile.  I actually read your thread during lunch yesterday and you really made a good impression with the ladies in my studio. You really have a crush on Jennifer huh? I loved how you defended Jennifer against all those idiots. Take it from me patzerr, none of those losers have any wives or girlfriends. A women can tell these things. How about posting a photo of yourself so the girls and I can have a look? Anyway, the girls and I think that Jennifer Shahade would be a lucky girl to have you as a husband. Bye!

I personally wouldn't give advice if I were rated 500. Just because at that rating you are literally the strength of someone who has never touched a chess piece in their life. To start blitz games has moves that generally are not played in long time control and there is just not as much complexity. I'd like to see how deep you can think in 5 minutes lol.

First of all Icare I'll do what I want and secondly for your information GM's are changing their views on the value of blitz for beginner's. Player's who say that playing blitz wrecked their game use that as an excuse for why they have not reached the GM level. Those aren't my words Icare those are the words of Robert James Fischer.

Alright patzerr give it to them. The girls and I are cracking up!

Bye Love XX

For those of you who can't read English, my very first sentence clearly states that THE BEST WAY TO IMROVE IN CHESS IS TO PLAY 30/0 GAMES.

What's wrong with you people?

Jeeez!

How old are you the_patzerr?

If you think it works for you, fine. 

Stop by here every day, play a gazillion 5/0 games and who knows, you might make it to GM level!

But maybe, just maybe you shoudn't try so hard to persuade other beginners to follow your advice, simply because I think it's a pretty bad advice. 

In my opinion 5/0 blitz is a lot of fun but improving your game comes with hard work, playing long games, analyzing games, playIng OTB games, studying openings, strategy, endgames etc etc.

But again, do what you want, have fun and I'll check your stats in a while to see if you've improved. 😏

I read what you posted.  It doesn't comport with my experience, nor is it really consistent with the advice of many expert coaches who seem to know what they're talking about.  Surely you were aware that your opinion was giong to be controversial.  So don't be thin-skinned about a little bit of criticism, especially on these forums!

At some point, you just have to admit that there is no right or worng answer to this.  Some people post, just to post, and just want a reaction.  

A few weeks ago I was thinking of making a troll post exactly like this one, but I didn't, because I realized it would be too harmful to a lot of serious improving players, especially beginners.

I looked at some of your blitz games as I was curious what a 400 rated game looks like. All I can say is "Stop it now!". I'm a beginner (been playing a year now) and even I know you are learning absolutely nothing. It just looks like two fighters wildly flailing their arms and legs at each other hoping to hit something. Really, stop it. Any perceived improvement is simply brownian motion at this point.

If you can afford it, get chess.com membership and start doing the interactive lessons here, watch the beginner videos and learn basic chess principles. Then play daily chess and allocate the time you would have wasted on whole blitz games instead on single moves in the daily games. Sheesh!

Or if you just really like playing blitz then carry on. If you are having fun then that is totally cool... but don't kid yourself you are learning anything.

My first thought was that this is a 2Q1C reincarnation... but I don't think even he could have forced himself to create such games for the art of the troll... but maybe....

Yeah, sure. GM's where? On Chess.com? Cos Chess.com can display impressive numbers of played games to the advertizers and charge them more for it? You have got no clue.

Blitz doesn't help going anywhere. Blitz reflects the routines you have integrated. Blitz is fun, but has the poorest reputation among REAL chess players, don't I know, since I talk with them IN REAL LIFE all the bloody time for 28 years now.

So, yes, you "do what you want", like it was news. But I, also do what I want, and I'm telling people why they should not listen to the ignorant prick you are. because I care for people to have access to real knowledge and see people like you blocking the sight to it with your ridiculous postings.

And unlike you, I don't need to quote any GM in order to sustain my point of view, because I've got DIRECT ACCESS TO REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE before I come on here and expose what supposed wisdom of mine.

I'm not criticizing you. This troll thread has baited a good number of responses.

To address the question seriously, playing blitz, rather than doing nothing, will obviously give improvement to total beginners who need to play the game a bit. I don't know what your level is (because you probably just lost a bunch of games to make this thread more hilarious), but the real question is what will provide more improvement per unit time: blitz or classical?

Every single serious player pretty much will answer the latter.

The question is not: is 5+0 blitz better than doing nothing chess-related for total beginners? To try and argue this without even knowing it, like many here have done, is obviously impossible, as all one as to do is bring up one possible benefit of blitz.

Actually, 2Q1C's posts are slightly better in grammar. However, the tone is completely different from 2Q1C's.