this Tik-tok'fication of the culture where attention spans are getting smaller is both a negative point for chess (people can't focus) and a positive one (people who want to run away from it will find it cozy and nice exercise to play chess)
I bet that with computer chess we see way more blitz and fast-chess games than in the past
but this is not bad per se
The main reason why we see the total dominance of blitz in online chess is cheaters. Given the fact that now the simplest program is capable of giving hints stronger than the best human players, it is very easy to cheat. But when you have a minute or two per game, then you obviously won't have time to cheat. Well, and to be honest, blitz is adrenaline, I like to have fun like that sometimes
do you know lichess (and probably chess.com too) has an anti-cheat mechanism?
as far as I remember it's coded in python, you can find more information about it on their database.
I agree that blitz is adrenaline, I stopped playing late at night otherwise I can't sleep well
too much dopamine
but I think long games are also possible without cheaters.
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how is your journey going?