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Blitz chess is chess played with very short time controls, typically 5 minutes per side or less.

Blitz chess is chess played with very short time controls, typically 5 minutes per side or less. More information on this form of chess, including its history, can be found here.

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Does playing too much hyperblitz and bullet ruin your classical performance?

Because of quarantine I haven't been able to meet up with my friends to play OTB games or go anywhere including tournaments to play OTB for that matter, so for the past year I have been playing purely online chess with my friends and randoms. When I…
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What is some basic advice for playing blitz or rapid?

A decade back i used to play chess, but just OTB and without time control. I now got back into chess and often play something like 15+10, where I very rarely lose on time and I am now rated ~1500 on Lichess. I tried playing shorter time controls but…
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Pieces knocked over in blitz chess

In blitz (lightning) chess: If my opponent knocks over a piece when moving then presses his clock before replacing the piece is this illegal? If so do I stop the clock and call the DOP?
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How to recapture more efficiently?

I know this sounds ridiculous but I want to learn the hand movement for recapturing in chess. It seems like a good fast way to recapture especially in blitz. Here is an example if you don't know what I'm talking about (the way they quickly…
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Blitz tournaments (time control around 5 minutes)

I want to know if any of you could help me finding results from strong Blitz tournaments where the time control is around 5 minutes per player. It's for research. I do not have Chessbase or any chess game data base. Thanks.
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Blitz games managment

Here is the problem : when I have the time, i usually find the right move. Meaning, in a longer time frame games (more than 10min) I'm doing better. I feel like struggling with 5 min. games and I don't know how to improve. I review my games usually…
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