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 play online I only ever play games faster than 3+0 because I hate sitting down and staring at the screen for too long, just not the same as staring at a board.
I got a lot better since last year going from 1700 rated online in blitz to 2000 rated. My friend who is around 2300 rated says that it's gonna make me play trash in tournaments and not good for my game, is it true?
I know I make one move blunders and mistakes often in this time format but I quickly realize a second after I made the move or sometimes as soon as I make it. So my logic is if it was a classical game I would spend at least 10 extra seconds looking over and I'd see the obvious blunder.
Has there been significant evidence or reason to believe that speed chess will make you a worse regular chess player overall? Or is it purely anecdotal?
Usually, when playing speed chess our eyes get trained to find tactics quickly, and we tend to overlook complex ones. Also, repeatedly playing speed chess over a significant time reduces your stamina which is needed for long games.
In my experience, when I spend too much with speed chess before a tournament, after I analyze my games I see that my games are not as technically sound as it used to be.
It is a bummer for me because love bullet chess :(.