classical chess is for crippled old birds

Except that... it is not the same as going over a book. If you are doing puzzles, looking at the solution, pondering why it is the solution - that is studying, and good study. Like I said, I am only talking about players who simply play very fast chess.

At some point, they will need to play more accurately in their games. 

yes, puzzles are great training exercises for choosing between candidate moves (improved skill).

there is no timer involved, which allows for deep calculation, evaluation & blunder-checks.

3600 puzzles pb & 72 survival rush.

my blitz & bullet are just under 2000:

build a strong foundation from strengthening the underlying mechanics of a game & you can successfully increase your speed later.

If you want to learn to do something well, it is a logical error to focus on those who do it well. That’s your argument. I disagree. 

I still like the post @stil1 made... improvement is about the learning done in between games.

If you look at a bullet game where you blundered a knight because you were low on time, that doesn't give you much to learn from... but sure, if you study you can still learn.

Games where you did you best but still screwed up, those contain great lessons. That's the main point of playing long games.

You always focus your arguments on your own experience. You are terrible at chess.

Everyone is terrible when they are a beginner. Some people stay beginners a very long time.

It is good that you pay attention to what GMs say. Maybe you will not always remain a beginner.

I don’t understand why u believe longer time comtrols don’t help with shorter ones, I played a lot of rapid and took a break from blitz, and after getting to 1500 rapid I was able to get from 1270 to 1410 without much effort at all, I was just playing for fun as well the blitz since I couldn’t focus on rapid then .

Depends on who you are playing and how much time they have. Lots of beginners do not yet know how to checkmate with that queen.

Yeah, but you want your errors to be meaningful.

If you blunder because you had no time to think, then that's not a helpful lesson. In a long game if you believe a kingside attack is justified... even if it ends up working and you win the game... you might discover in analysis that it wasn't justified, and that's learning.

oh come on, this post is just from someone who isn't great at rapid. grandmasters have studied to the point the extra time does not benefit them, so they don't play with it. you have to be good at rapid to be great at blitz. personally, I'm not great at ether, so I will respect the opinion of more experienced players.  

it would be so funny if Hikaru or Danya noticed this thread.

Let’s just stop shoving more wood into the fire, night people 

Yeah, I am the same with many things. It's arguably more fun to discover or intuit things on your own.

And studying is, for most people, a boring activity. It's tough to encourage studying in something like chess, because playing is obviously far more fun.

But studying here and there, in small, bite-sized doses, can lead to more fun in the long run. Here and there, a player wins because he tried out an idea he saw in a video, or a book. Or they run into a position that they've glanced at before, with an engine, and they get excited about knowing how things should continue from that point on.

I think studying becomes more tolerable (and even enjoyable) when the player begins seeing positive results from it.

Tony Robbins likes to say, in his motivational speeches, that people are driven by progress and results. If you see forward progress, you like it, and start to crave more - and will continue with the steps that you took to get there.

I think the hard part (with chess, at least) is fighting against the addictive quality of the game itself. Who wants to analyze or review when you can, play play play?

It's like asking a kid to eat some vegetables, when there's a whole plate full of cookies nearby.

Night

I studied the classical game that I lost in an OTB tournament on Saturday. Today, when I faced the same defense in a 10 minute game, I beat an NM in 20 moves.

I’m still studying an endgame that I won last week.

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