Play Bullet, it doesn't matter how much you lose but it will improve your longer game.
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SmyslovFan wrote:
David Howell recently stated that Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen each logged over 700 hours across all platforms last year playing blitz and bullet. They would quite often play each other long sessions of bullet chess.
Two of the best players in the history of the game play about 2 hours of blitz and bullet every day!
They have been playing bullet all their lives. They didn't get good then play blitz and bullet.
Sure, they also spend a lot of time studying chess at slower time controls too.
There, it could only have contributed to their games.
Sep 18, 2021
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#63
Carlsen and Firouzja are two of the strongest players in the world.
They can play a lot of bullet because they've already mastered chess at the highest levels. They hardly need to think at all to find the best moves in any position.
Most players, though, haven't mastered chess. And if mastery (or even general improvement) is their goal, then there are far better ways to do it than by playing a lot of bullet ...
(Now, if you want to play bullet just for the fun and thrill of it, and you're not looking for serious improvement, then that's understandable.)
Sep 18, 2021
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#64
Carlsen and Firouzja are top players who played blitz and bullet as children.
Sep 18, 2021
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#65
That may be, but they also did other chess-related things as children, too (such as being coached, in person, by grandmasters).
It's worth asking: which of their chess activities were likely more responsible for their eventual success: their enjoyment of speed chess, or that they received years of grandmaster coaching?
I'm sure playing a lot of chess (at any timer) has its benefits. Though I'd bet hard money that the grandmaster coaching is where the bulk of their improvement came from ...
George1st wrote:
BroiledRat wrote:
George1st wrote:
BroiledRat wrote:
George1st wrote:
It does improve your longer game!
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!
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. : )
Since your reading comprehension evidently matches your comprehension of chess, let me walk you through nice and slow.
This thread is about how bullet improves your play in longer time controls.
You are awful at longer time controls, despite playing plenty of bullet, so your very existence disproves the premise of your thread.
The fact that this needs to be explained to you is sad but unsurprising.
Oh and “You may not look like how you sound” isn’t a coherent statement in case you didn’t realize.
Either English isn’t your first language or you are mentally impaired.
Please utilize your two remaining neurons to formulate a post that doesn’t make yourself look like a clown, before posting reply.
It will save what little remains of your credibility.
Every time I think you’ve said the most idiotic thing possible, you post another comment and one up yourself.
“You may not look like how you sound” You have never experienced this? You have never perceived somebody to possibly come across differently purely by your perception of them?
I would say it is you that is running low on the old neurones. I think most people will agree. Not you of course because you can't comprehend what we are even talking about. You poor thing.
If you could give a single real argument or credential on your part, then it might be believable. But none have been given.
(P.S. Don't talk to yourself)
Sep 18, 2021
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#67
Oh how nice ad hominem attacks on both sides now
*grabs popcorn*
Please continue.
Sep 18, 2021
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#69
Not exactly ninja.
An ad hominem is a personal attack in the place of an argument.
My argument was that the general opinion among experienced and even elite players is that bullet provides little in the way of improving in longer time controls.
The International Master in this very thread, for example.
I also argued that his own stats contradicted his assertions, because his abysmal rapid rating quite elegantly stomps out his delusion that bullet contributes in any significant way toward Chess improvement in longer time controls.
I made these valid points which he has yet to comprehend, let alone form a cogent counterargument against, while also attacking his person for being a clown who thinks he can teach Chess while simultaneously sucking at it even more than the average beginner.
He lacks the self awareness to realize it is akin to a homeless person telling people how to run a successful online business.
An ad hominem is a personal attack in the place of an argument.
My argument was that the general opinion among experienced and even elite players is that bullet provides little in the way of improving in longer time controls.
The International Master in this very thread, for example.
I also argued that his own stats contradicted his assertions, because his abysmal rapid rating quite elegantly stomps out his delusion that bullet contributes in any significant way toward Chess improvement in longer time controls.
I made these valid points which he has yet to comprehend, let alone form a cogent counterargument against, while also attacking his person for being a clown who thinks he can teach Chess while simultaneously sucking at it even more than the average beginner.
He lacks the self awareness to realize it is akin to a homeless person telling people how to run a successful online business.
Playing bullet games help me when I started new cause I only new how to damn pieces move no idea of tactics.opening idea and playing a lot of bullet games did help me improve my rapid rating taking the fact that I haven't played this game for more than a year
cool
Sep 19, 2021
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#72
Playing bullet may increase your speed of moving pieces. But it will make you only concentrate on time. Not on the board
Sep 19, 2021
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#73
ninjaswat wrote:
Oh how nice ad hominem attacks on both sides now
*grabs popcorn*
Please continue.
pass the popcorn with some extra cheese please
SmyslovFan wrote:
Carlsen and Firouzja are top players who played blitz and bullet as children.
It's certain that their positions at the top of the world chess rankings is not due to playing primarily bullet and blitz. What is not being discussed here is the relative amount of time they have spent playing at "standard" time controls vs speed chess, over their chess careers, particularly prior to becoming titled players. The key point is not that they have played bullet and blitz as children, or at any age, it is how much they played at those time controls, vs playing games at standard time controls, as well as time spent studying and being tutored by coaches, prior to becoming titled players.
Playing primarily bullet and blitz is not the path players just starting their journey in chess should take if they have aspirations of becoming titled players, over-the-board, at standard time controls.
ninjaswat wrote:
Oh how nice ad hominem attacks on both sides now
*grabs popcorn*
Please continue.
Lol
SmyslovFan wrote:
Carlsen and Firouzja are top players who played blitz and bullet as children.
"Rapid and blitz chess is first of all for enjoyment." Magnus Carlsen
"Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapid play in favour of serious chess." Vladimir Kramnik
"Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." Mikhail Botvinnik
"He who analyses blitz is stupid." Rashid Nezhmetdinov
"Blitz chess kills your ideas." Bobby Fischer
"To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." Vladimir Kramnik
"Blitz – it's just a pleasure." Vladimir Kramnik
"I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." Nigel Short
"Blitz is simply a waste of time." Vladimir Malakhov
"Blitz is just getting positions where you can move fast. I mean, it's not chess." Hikaru Nakamura
pfren wrote:
SmyslovFan wrote:
Carlsen and Firouzja are top players who played blitz and bullet as children.
"Rapid and blitz chess is first of all for enjoyment." Magnus Carlsen
"Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapid play in favour of serious chess." Vladimir Kramnik
"Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929." Mikhail Botvinnik
"He who analyses blitz is stupid." Rashid Nezhmetdinov
"Blitz chess kills your ideas." Bobby Fischer
"To be honest, I consider [bullet chess] a bit moronic, and therefore I never play it." Vladimir Kramnik
"Blitz – it's just a pleasure." Vladimir Kramnik
"I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol." Nigel Short
"Blitz is simply a waste of time." Vladimir Malakhov
"Blitz is just getting positions where you can move fast. I mean, it's not chess." Hikaru Nakamura
Good quotes, the Nakamura one probably would stick out to most people since he plays quite a bit of blitz
MyNameIsNotBuddy wrote:
Good quotes, the Nakamura one probably would stick out to most people since he plays quite a bit of blitz
It was no pain to get them: just a copypaste from Wikipedia.
pfren wrote:
MyNameIsNotBuddy wrote:
Good quotes, the Nakamura one probably would stick out to most people since he plays quite a bit of blitz
It was no pain to get them: just a copypaste from Wikipedia.
I see. Ok
