Every fool can win in blitz chess !

@Kleelof, agreed. The speed part is quite funny. The reason GM's can play blitz so well is they have spent hundreds of hours playing slow chess and studying. They don't have to do much if any calculating, they just know what to do.

Don't get me wrong. Blitz is fun to play. But it's like Skittles; you eat one and in a few minutes it is gone and you have moved on to the next one.

But, given a choice, I prefer steak. 

Mmmmmm steak. Now I'm hungry lol

Grandmasters play bullet. (I could stop there.) In fact, there is a player who plays bullet named "multicast" on ICC that there is much speculation he is Magnus Carlsen.  I wouldn't be surprised as his rating in bullet is often over 2800...which is astronomical.  But even if it's not him there are other super GM's that play bullet.  If GM's play bullet, then it's chess.  Now all you whiners and wannabe crybabies go home and cry to your mums.

I don't play blitz. It's too fast. You don't have time to think about your move! :)

Nine: I don't play Live here at all. But I play Online Chess as if I'm playing blitz.

Some people will make up all sorts of ridiculous theories because they are married to their idea and can't think objectively.

You've just described every single person on the face of the Earth.

Here is a section taken from wikpedia in regards to speed chess :

Many top chess players do not take rapid, blitz and bullet chess as seriously as they do chess with standard time controls. Some dismissive quotes from top chess players on the topic of it are the following:

• "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^[31]
• "Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." – Mikhail Botvinnik^[31]
• "He who analyses blitz is stupid." – Rashid Nezhmetdinov^[31]
• "Blitz chess kills your ideas." – Bobby Fischer^[31]
• "To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." – Vladimir Kramnik^[32]
• "Blitz – it's just a pleasure." – Vladimir Kramnik^[33]
• "I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." – Nigel Short^[34]
• "Blitz is simply a waste of time." – Vladimir Malakhov^[35]

derekj1978 wrote:

jackfast wrote:

Blitz is as real chess as standard chess. Lots of people and me have played games where we only have a few inaccuratcy. I have found that standard chess is soooo much easier to play. I get computer analysises of lots of my games, and I find a blitz 1500 rated person makes much more accurate moves than a standard 1500 rated person. The reason why is because people started by playing the same computer level that doesn't change how strong it is when it is playing in different time controls. So naturally, people's standard ratings are higher than there blitz ratings.

This is a blitz game where I only played one inaccuratcy.

Note that games like this are not rare, they are played very often by 1500s or higher in blitz

Here is a section taken from wikpedia in regards to speed chess :

Many top chess players do not take rapid, blitz and bullet chess as seriously as they do chess with standard time controls. Some dismissive quotes from top chess players on the topic of it are the following:

"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[31]

"Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." – Mikhail Botvinnik[31]

"He who analyses blitz is stupid." – Rashid Nezhmetdinov[31]

"Blitz chess kills your ideas." – Bobby Fischer[31]

"To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." – Vladimir Kramnik[32]

"Blitz – it's just a pleasure." – Vladimir Kramnik[33]

"I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." – Nigel Short[34]

"Blitz is simply a waste of time." – Vladimir Malakhov[35]

Yeah what he said, stick that in your pipe and smoke it blitz lovers lol

The stronger the player is, the better he is at blitz.

That quote is pretty dumb taken at face value and I think maybe he meant it in a different way to how it's been interpreted by know-nothing internet guys. Maybe he meant "he who analyzes blitz in order to improve specifically at blitz", in which case the advice makes a lot of sense. Analyzing this way would mean analyzing premove possibilities etc.  

However analyzing positions that you happen to have played in blitz chess is the exact same as analyzing another position period. The source of the position doesn't matter. Dvoretsky and lots of world-renowned writers have occasionally put analysis from positions that came from internet blitz games in their works. The fact that the moves were played so quickly doesn't matter if they're nearly all theory with a few extra interesting moves. If you do play blitz, the one way you could salvage something worth knowing about it would be to analyze something that came from a feeling you felt out of it. Not to analyze for the sake of getting an optimal blitz reaction the next time, but to genuinely understand the position better.    

Even blunders in blitz can be extremely useful to study. 

Take a look at the following game. And then see how well you would play out the position after move 49.

Yes, as Reagan said, "mistakes were made". But even when the position was "easily" winning according to the computers, there was still plenty of opportunity to go wrong. 

See how well you would do against a computer as White after move 49, a position that the computer considers to be close to winning for White.

Take a look at the following game. 

Is this game worth analysing? 

If so, why, if not, why not? Does it have anything to do with the time control for this particular game?

playing a decent blitz game is hard dude. you don't know what your talking about.

I know what am I talking about. Even weak player can win sometimes in blitz, because of big posibillity that a strong player make blunder because there is no time for thinking. So, yeah blitz isnt real chess, because real chess is deeply thinking game.

Ask Hikaru Nakamura or Danny Rensch about it and they will answer you that fast games are usual but with less time. If strong player makes blunders in blitz then most likely he is not strong. Look at Magnus, he is the champion in blitz as well. Do you think you will have any chance against him in blitz?

Yeah I agree partially-.Good point.