Blitz Addication

Like many others I have a blitz addication.  Untill recently I called it training; despite the fact we all know that those at the top think it is harmful to our development.

                 Blitz chess kills your ideas.  -  Bobby Fischer

                Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious

 chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.  
-  Vladimir Kramnik

                He who analyses blitz is stupid.  -  Rashid Nezhmetdinov

                It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.  -  Viswanathan Anand

Well as part of my new resolution I am giving up all blitz play. I am going to take the hours of blitz that I normally play per week and use for real study.  I am committing myself  not to play any game with a time control of less then 30min.  With the majority of the games I play with 2hr time controls.

I think the time used for study instead of blitz will greatly help me reach my goals.




update:  I didn't make it 24hrs without a blitz game.  I only played the one and have not played since.   It really is like an addiction.