hahaha guys i only ment that blitz and bullet chess can be a little stupid but you can't restrict people from it

agreed!

and thanks for the googlespeak, joeydvivre

thank you for the agreement

Bullet can be a little ridiculous since alot of people make their move before their opponent even does. I do get a kick out of how people that play blitz or bullet love to pat themselves on the back for being such fast thinkers. Or how they criticize people that like to play the longer game because its all about memorizing openings.

There is no difference in generally remembering the first 10 or so moves of a certain opening for long play and remembering the 10 or so trap openings that you use in blitz. If you hit midgame all that is left of the opening is possibly some basic strategic principal which you could likely pick up by just looking at the board anyways.

I'm not saying blitz or rapid (technically even the longest live matches here are rapids) aren't valid ways of playing. I just personally find more enjoyment in looking deeper into a postion and seeing if it has any surprises for me.

And about the database thing I really don't care if the person I am playing is using one. I kind of don't think most of the people i play here are. It is actually possible to know almost nothing about a opening and stay largely on book. One of the first times I played Sicilian since I came back from like 20 years of not playing I did Najdorf up until like move 15 and I had never heard of it. I did look it up after though to see what White had done to me lol.