Blitz might help develop your tactical reflexes and quick sight of the board, but it's bad for your chess development in other ways. Basically, playing lots of Blitz games will help you get better at playing Blitz.
You mentioned blindfold... what's the touch-move rule used in blindfold? If you think of a piece, you have to move it?
1. Yes. Through habit, intuition developes.
2. That's a good way to put it:)
3. I don't know.
4. I can't do blindfold for too long, even though I've played thousands of games. I lose the chess board in my mind after about ten moves. But it seems like blindfold-chess is what all the masters can do so it may be a key to a better understanding of chess.
I am curious about this topic, and I value all your imput, because a few students of mine are very kene on blitz. Parents and other coaches ask me if blitz is a good or bad idea and its hard for me to form a good opinion on my own.
I feel blitz was instrumental for me to become a real chess player and I think it definately accelerated my improvement and interest in the game. However this might not be for everyone.
Blitz is dangerous on young minds in particular because of the fine line is poses in enhancing understanding and enjoyment of the game... and/or creating a habbit of moving too fast and overestimating one's self.
I am curious about this topic, and I value all your imput, because a few students of mine are very kene on blitz. Parents and other coaches ask me if blitz is a good or bad idea and its hard for me to form a good opinion on my own.
I feel blitz was instrumental for me to become a real chess player and I think it definately accelerated my improvement and interest in the game. However this might not be for everyone.
Blitz is dangerous on young minds in particular because of the fine line is poses in enhancing understanding and enjoyment of the game... and/or creating a habbit of moving too fast and overestimating one's self.
You TEACH other & yet you look down on titled players who like corresponding chess. I pity your student for chosing you as their coach. Even worse, you could not answer a simple question.
The same NM whom you belittle and had a better chess knowledge than you & his NM friend have said that playing is slow games (45/45 or 60/30 or ???) is much better. However they stress that playing blitz is also good to know the opening & balancing time. But one must have the good habit otherwise the rest is worthless. A chess World Champion once said "If you find a good move, look for a better one". He was certainly talking about slow games. So you right to be worried in your 3rd paragraph above.
General goal of topic: To gather public opinion on these general questions or whatever you have to add. to gather people's opinion on what the true goal of playing game after game in order to get better
1) Could blitz be a reward-concequence method to imprinting an internal chess board with a general understanding of what is good vs what is bad?
2) Could playing thousands of games be more about just teaching your brain about chess more than learning from winning and losing so much?
3) Are blitz players generally good at other variants? Even things not even related to chess? Reaction time? Being a good competitor?
4) What method do you use to strive towards better blind-fold techniques? Can we agree that blind-folded calculation is important to being a better tournament player?
**Please don't troll. Please don't argue endlessly and lead the whole forum to an entirely new topic if only for a time.** :)