Play Bullet, it doesn't matter how much you lose but it will improve your longer game.

"Play Bullet.....it will improve your longer game." - The worst possible advice in chess.

Play Longer Time Controls...
For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours. And/or hoping to notice and exploit your opponent’s blunders while hoping they don't notice yours. The reason for this is that there is little time to think about what you should be doing.

It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills and results.

An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.

This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow or daily time controls, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which, while they may be fun, do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.

Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources

and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours

for some good stuff on general chess improvement, with a view toward learning what you should be doing, browse my blog.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

Excactly !

Yes.

I didn't start playing Chess at all until I was in my mid 40's. So I think I'm limited on how high I can go ratings-wise. My first goal is to go over 1000. I have to put in more time learning that I have if I want to get anywhere near that. However, I have found playing 1.e4 every game is the easiest thing for me to do. 

Obviously, I'm not a good player but most everything I've read from titled players it seems for new players this is the correct first move.  Who am I to question a titled player?

This is exactly it for me and I'm conscious of it. 

I just tend to try make moves as fast as possible to win on time because I'm not at a level yet where I can play a series of good moves at that pace. So, I don't play a lot of bullet.  I play mostly daily games and rapid. Seems like in rapid games I can play with actual thought behind my moves. 

It does improve your longer game!

How?

I don't see how it improves anyone's game when you are low rated and can barely make good plays with 10-15 minute time constraints. I don't think most people under 1500 are likely improving anything playing bullet. Particularly if you are under 800, at that point I feel like I'm wasting time on bullet when I could be learning better from doing puzzles, playing daily or rapids or even watching so YouTube videos or reading a book.

Bullet isn't a good way to improve, at all.

The only thing it can help you with is spotting superficial tactics. But even then, there are better ways to work on tactics.

Note: when you see high-rated players playing bullet, they aren't doing it to improve. They're doing it for fun.

Their actual training is much slower, and more tedious. That's where true improvement comes from.

Yes Mr. 489 rapid, we trust in your teachings master.

In all seriousness, I’m not one to sh#t on lower rated players, but taking advice from someone that can’t break 600 rapid is akin to asking a baby who only recently learned how to walk about how to become a marathon runner.

No one pays attention to the opinion of the baby, because they can scarcely grasp what a marathon even is!

I don't know what to say other than humans are strange and interesting.

Actually, the forum is about Bullet and I am currently 629. Maybe think before you speak next time, could help. You may not look like how you sound. : )

I like bullet because it's fun and I can finish a game quickly while I'm waiting for something else in life to happen. Also with the increment it's not complete crap because that mostly eliminates flagging by just flailing pieces in the "endgame".  I have played 1000's of games and have not improved in years, in rating anyway.

Well, they used the rapid rating since you were saying bullet improves your long game

According to the title, even if I lose a thousand games in a row at chess, I could still say I have improved. Huh, neat.

In all honesty, relying on bullet for improvement would only TORTURE your chances of winning games with longer time controls. Long time controls encourage players to think moves through to find great and perfect moves. Bullet encourages players the exact opposite. To not think at all, just move. No thought, no care, very little to no quality in the moves you make considering your rating (no offense), just move, move, MOVE!

Exactly, bullet makes my brain recoil. 

Nup, incorrect, the right answer is 4, people below 1000 who play 1.d4.

For me, bullet is frenetic and stressful.

So I'm always astounded when Hikaru (Nakamura), on stream, is able to discuss important squares and potential tactics that might arise in the position ... while playing bullet.

... against 3000+ opponents.

And he does it casually, too, as if he's in no rush at all.

Or he'll stop playing to blatantly sip a drink from his sponsor ... or he'll let a few seconds run off his clock while he reads chat and answers their questions ... while playing bullet.

well, that's because he uses chess.com's tactics trainer

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