I noticed when I played blitz a lot, my chess became poor. So, I dont consider blitz chess real chess, but it is funny to play it sometimes.
I dont care about my blitz rating, I care about my classical rating.
Goodbay blitz chess, I will play it only sometimes.
Blitz is real chess. If you only play blitz for a while it might look like your classical get's worse. But it's only a temporary effect. To me it can take a couple of days and I'm back again.
Classical chess is forcing yourself to look at several options while Blitz chess is relying mostly on instinct.
Real chess is killing real chess.
@X_Instruktor_X I agree with you. I used to play a lot blitz and I was so bad in classical with a rating of 1100. Now I'm only playing classical and now I play better than before with a rating of 1348 in classical.
Botwinnik and Short also considered Blitz to be bad while Bronstein, Tal and Petrosian loved to play Blitz. Every person is different.
Totally agree that tactical planning deteriorates with blitz. At least for me (I'm low rated), blitz boils down to either playing tricky or get wrecked by opponent tricks. But it's a lot of fun if you're looking for a casual chess moment after a tiring day. Also, you see all sorts of interesting openings, traps and gambits that are suicidal in classical chess.
Blitz chess and classical chess are both just two sides of the same coin: every chess player needs the ability to exactly calculate and to create well thought-out plans, yet also needs routine to carry out these tasks with a minimum of effort (otherwise he might get exhausted before the game ends).
Blitz will use (and therefore train) your routine play - how fast and how efficiently can you execute a plan once you have it - and classical play will require you to work on your calculation skills and your planning abilities.
I have a some chess friends who always stand better and in the long run lose a lot of these "won games" - they usually profit greatly from playing blitz to get more efficient in winning won positions, which is a technical skill.
krasnaya
If it wasn't real chess it wouldn't be on a chess site. I'm playing for entertainment and not directly for improvement. So I like bullet the most, so I play bullet the most.