So strong players really love their fast time controls, huh?

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mdin**** wants you to believe he is good because he plays fast pahtzers.
Real good players do play blitz but not with most online players they either accuse cheating or the online player tries some silly trap.

For whatever reason, I find it hard to try my best in a slow game online, unless its against someone I know. OTB I give 100%, but its hard for me to do that online. The addicting thing about blitz and bullet is you don't have to think too hard, you can just play intuitive moves.

As for if it's beneficial for your chess, it's quantity vs. quality. Bullet/Blitz is quantity > quality, classical is quality > quantity.

Strong players (which I'll arbitrarily define as ~1800+) are capable of playing a decent game in 3+0 and even 1+0 because they have such a strong intuition. It's very rare for a 2200+ to blunder material in blitz. So, they can get a high quantity of games in without too much of a quality sacrifice. What I'm saying is I think strong players get more value out of blitz than weaker players. (This may or may not be true, it's hard to measure. Maybe I'm just trying to justify my waste of time)

But yeah, mostly people play blitz and bullet because it's more exciting. If you learn some stuff along the way, even better. But if I want to play a slow game, I'd much prefer to do it OTB.

I think the OP's perspective is a little off or perhaps just jaded from playing so much chess here on Lichess. The "best" players you see playing blitz are by no means the best players online. There are guys rated 1800+ in blitz here who probably haven't even ever played a rated game OTB and have not one classical game played on their profile here. These aren't "strong players" - They're guys who got good at blitz. This doesn't translate over to classical games online and OTB.

Sites like Lichess and Chess.com are heavily dedicated toward the casual chess player. Casual chess players play mostly fast time controls because they have little time for chess and don't actually have the intelligence, focus, and dedication to get good at classical chess. It's far easier for them to work on 2-3 move combos repeatedly and get good at 3+0 time controls where the clock is more important than the moves.

There are tons of long games played online - You just aren't going to find them played on LichessTV. There are commercial servers that have 90+30 leagues filled with FIDE titled players. If you browse through some of the profiles, these are 2200+ rated FIDE players who hardly ever play blitz online.

Basically, you're perspective is just off due to the servers you play on and where you're viewing games. Legitimately solid, titled players spend the majority of their time studying, analyzing, and playing classical games. The guys spending 10+ hours a day playing blitz here are not the truly "strong" players of the world. That said, it does depend on what we're considering "blitz". Fast time controls with no increment are basically just a variant of chess. There's a huge difference between a 3+0 and a 5+3. The 5+3 players here are far, far better overall players than the 3+0 players, naturally. Playing without any increment turns the game on it's head and makes it a matter of who can not get checkmated before the clock runs out. The positions and themes you see arise are going to be radically different than what you see in blitz + increment and classical games. So, if you want to see legitimately high quality chess from legitimately high quality players, steer clear of watching 3+0 games and do a little research around the web. What you seek is very much out there and more popular than ever.

Stephenson
11 hours ago
#12

mdin**** wants you to believe he is good because he plays fast pahtzers.
Real good players do play blitz but not with most online players they either accuse cheating or the online player tries some silly trap.

A simple look at mdinnerspace game history reveals:
Blitz games played ..... 0
Bullet games played .... 0
Hy-per bullet played .... 0

Correspondence games played .... 255
Rabid games played .... 949

Too many people "make stuff up" while possessing 0 knowledge of what they speak.

@jposthuma
I really understand why people don't want to play long games online. But as for blitz, why is it almost always 3+0 when watching lichess TV? So many of these games are destroyed in the end, both players making idiotic premoves, all the pieces hanging around. Why is it so much fun to win or lose like that? Already 3+2 makes a real different game, not to mention 5+3. But obviously they don't like it at all? Why?

A simple look at mdinnerspace game history reveals:
Blitz games played ..... 0
Bullet games played .... 0
Hy-per bullet played .... 0

A simple look at mdinnerspace game history reveals:
Blitz games played ..... 0
Bullet games played .... 0
Hy-per bullet played .... 0

Correspondence games played .... 255
Rabid games played .... 949

Too many people "make stuff up" while possessing 0 knowledge of what they speak.
Correspondence games played .... 255
Rabid games played .... 949

Too many people "make stuff up" while possessing 0 knowledge of what they speak.
True why do you talk about everything

@mdinnerspace #9
That's right!

@ArtistOfWarfare82

some of us just prefer faster chess. slow chess is too boring and takes too much time.

i did quite well thank you in OTB tournaments long before there was an internet

i was bored with the slow time controls
i hated crushing a patzer in the opening when i used only a few minutes but then had to sit there for a couple more hours while he used up all his clock time thinking he could somehow get a draw

slow players and then cheaters convinced me to stop chasing a fide title.
lombardy cheated me in round 4 of the eastern open.
kept going to the bathroom after every move and looking at books notes etc.

months later they busted him at another tournament for using books he kept in the stall in a bag hung on the hook.

now with cell phones and other devices cheating is rampant at OTB tournaments. AND they are still TOO SLOW DULL and BORING with ridiculously long time controls that dont allow enough rounds for a valid swiss.

our local club sponsors 3 round tournaments when they expect 20+ players. far better to play faster (which is still really slow) to have 4 or 5 rounds in a day and get a fair result.

and whats with the buy a bye in any round crap. either play every round or forfeit.

folks buy a bye in the last round hoping to score a lucky win in round two after they beat a real patzer in round one and then avoid having to play anyone good because there were not enough rounds for a real swiss.

No big tournaments allow for a bye to be taken in the last round. The claim otherwise is simply false.