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Subject: Re: 1/0 is it harmful for your game

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 20:03:29 03/28/99

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On March 28, 1999 at 22:27:10, Sarah Bird wrote:

>Hi,
>  I have read and heard numerous times that blitz is bad for your game.
>I have never felt that this was true and always thought it could only help it,
>especially for tactics.
>
>What are others opinions on this subject, when I play either my Fritz or CM6000
>I mostly play 2/0 and not only find it fun, but also find that it helps quicken
>up my thought process, so that at tourney times my calculating is quicker
>therefore giving me more depth and lines to look at.
>
>Other views?
>UltraB

It might help the speed you thinking for your moves, but overall the quality of
game is allot less.

I just have to look at the 24 games chess match at 25 minute time control that
Kasparov played on ICC. the quality of the games were quite low, but they were
exciting to watch.

But I think if you only ever play blitz chess that your game will suffer, that
in my opinion. Nothing like a nie 40/2 games to make your concentration better.
Because in speed chess if you get into a situation sometime you get flustered
and lose concentration and blunder and you do not have time to recover.




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