I’m not a very good blitz player. My profile markjenkinssksp on FICS has a rating of 860.

I played two games today (use pulldown menu to see both) with 2 minutes + 10 second increment, just enough time to qualify as a rapid by FIDE standards. (FICS has bullet, blitz, and standard, and doesn’t recognize the big difference between G20 and G90)

First I lost to a 768, tanking my rating below 800. Then I used my time and really enjoyed that 10 second increment in a longer game with a 996 thus restoring my rating. You can see the move times if you download the pgn and use an appropriate viewer, click the C8 square for whichever of the two games you’re looking at or D8 for both.

The second game redeemed me in another way, I’ve had a few experiences of dominating the center in recent months that I’ve failed to convert, this time I managed to, though I’ll have to spend more time to see if my habitual 9…d4 was any good.