Bullet Chess

Bullet chess refers to games played with time controls that are faster than 3 minutes per player. The most popular forms of bullet chess are 1|0 (one minute with no increment per player) or 2|1 (two minutes with a one-second increment per player).

How long is bullet chess?

Bullet. A variant of blitz chess, bullet chess games have less than three minutes per player, based on a 40-move game, and this extends down to one-minute-per-player games; lower time controls are called 'hyper bullet' and 'ultra-bullet' for 30-second-per-player and 15-second-per-player games, respectively.

Are Chess bullets good for you?

To sum it up, bullet chess won't improve your standard chess. In fact it will make your standard chess worse. Bullet chess will not really improve that much your standard chess and it can even make it worse. Playing bullet chess can teach you bad habits like being impatient and superficial thinking.

Top Bullet Chess Players

Hikaru Nakamura , Andrew Tang ,Nihal Sarin and Grischuk are one of Chess.com

Top bullet Players.

• What is Bullet Chess?
• Who Plays Bullet Chess?
• How to Play Bullet Chess on Chess.com
• 2019 Chess.com Bullet Chess Championship 
• Conclusion

  Who Plays Bullet Chess?

  Everyone can play bullet chess, from beginner to World Champion! According to recent data, there are over 550,000 bullet games played per day on Chess.com. That makes it the second most popular time control being played (behind blitz).

  Here is an example of Chess.com's IM Danny Rensch playing a bullet game with World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Even with time odds (two minutes for Danny vs one minute for Carlsen), Carlsen is too much for Danny to handle 

  How To Play Bullet Chess on Chess.com

  It is easy to play a game of bullet chess on Chess.com! Go to Live Chess and locate the time control pull-down menu. Click the pull-down menu and select 1 min or 2|1  for the time control.

  Setting up a bullet chess game on Chess.com is super easy!

  After you have selected which bullet time control you would like to play, you simply press the play button. Chess.com will then automatically pair you with another Chess.com user who is also seeking a bullet game and your match will begin. 

  2019 Chess.com Bullet Championship

  In 2019, the Chess.com Bullet Championship was held to crown the Chess.com bullet champion. The event had eight participants: GM Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexander Grischuk, Levon Arizonian, Sergei Karjakin, Federico Perez Ponsa, Alexandra Bortnyk and Alireza Firouzja – a star-studded field of top players!  Nakamura won the event after defeating the young phenom Firouzja in round 1, Aronian in round 2 and Bortnyk in the final.

  

  Conclusion

  Bullet chess is fun to watch and to play! It has been suggested that the faster a time control is the lower the quality of the game. This may be true, but the rush one gets from playing (or watching) bullet chess is difficult to match. Pre-moves, unusual and offbeat openings, blunders and other craziness define this wonderful chess variant.