Tips for playing Blitz?

it's NEVER obvious. not even my post #15 got away with it!

I'm ok with computer users who are open and honest about what they are doing - if for their own "benefit." It won't work, like some of the above posts have said, and is probably harming more than helping.

If a player lies about computer assistance though, then he or she is not only harming his or her own progress, but also irritating the community of players that might help.

Computers are a great thing for the chess community used PROPERLY :)

#22 Agreed; or engine developers/enthusiasts may want to have fun competitions. But that's simply my opinion.

This is a difficult discussion.
If you are a 1600-1800-1900 player (or even more), what are the benefits of watching a 3200 engine play? The "computerised" moves are too complex for most of us...

You can learn much more from watching a 3200 play than a 1600. That is why it is beneficial to replay and study commented grandmaster games.

You can learn much more from watching a human though. At least they think like you :)

Top humans play more like computers and top computers play more like humans. I wonder if you can tell the difference between a game of Stockfish and a game by Carlsen. It is like a Turing test.

I'm not convinced that a players skill is dramatically increased by "looking" at a better player or computer game.

Increase in ability seems to come from deep analysis of those games, the struggle to understand the moves. This is why I think computer engines might be a crutch that impedes progress. How deep do you analyze when it is easy to push a button and have it done for you? (Be honest with yourself)

I spent my early chess years adamantly avoiding the use of chess engines (they weren't so good back then). In a chess game, you are all you've got. Why not train the same way?

@DrHack all top players now use computers: to check opening preparation, to analyse own and opponent's games, to train themselves. In the pre computer days, strong players were sought after to help analyse games. Now you can just consult your silicon grandmaster whenever you want. Of course just looking does not help, just like mindlessly replaying from a book or magazine did not help. But studying a game by 3000 players, i.e. wondering why this move and why not that move certainly helps.