My opinion on 1 minute games

Now he's appalled; did someone hurt your feelings?

or a hot water heater?

or 4 a m in the morning

maybe it was supposed to be Chess Club Chess (oh wait...)

the Complete Correspondence Chess, of course.

1 minute games are just dumb in my opinion

Creeping Correspondence Chess for the 1 year/turn games, or those that seem like it.

There are a lot of things to learn in chess.  As with training for some physical activity where e.g. training to improve sprint speed may have a detrimental effect on endurance, bullet chess can improve some areas of your game and (if you let it) make others worse.

If you play for 1 hour straight at 30 minute time control you play 1 game, at 1 minute control you play > 30.  The quality of your moves in those 30 will be lower, but once you get into thinking that fast the sheer volume of games you can pack in results in many learning opportunities, familiarisation with different opening lines, etc.

I would never play < 5 minute control in otb chess and generally prefer much longer, but online with so many distractions I don't have the concentration and patience to spend 2-3 hours on a single game of live chess

glamdring, i agree with you. im just saying particularly a 1 minute game is no good.  a 2 minute game with 1 second increments is anohter thing. 1 minute game you dont even have time to move the pieces, let alone think about a move.

You do once you have played a certain number.  When I first started playing them and was playing a 30-minute continuous tournament on a different site (i.e. as soon as you end one match you get paired up with someone else rather than waiting for rounds to finish) I was exhausted and my focus was all on just trying to get my mouse to move the pieces fast enough.

Now, after playing many of them I am far better at being able to think of intelligent moves and move them fast.  I still make a plethora of ridiculous mistakes of course, but I am bringing the number of those down.

I never read up openings sso my book opening knowledge is almost non-existent, but through playing so many bullet games I meet the same positions in openings so many times I get to pick up some openings simply by virtue of playing them so many times I memorise them even without meaning to.

I enter my PIN number when I visit the ATM machine.

I believe he's telling me that "ATM machine" = "Automatic Teller Machine machine" just as writing "CC chess" = "Correspondence Chess chess."
A pretty good analogy.

"personal identification number number"

O.I.C !!