1500 In Bullet!!

it matters why ?

Congrats! Good Luck!

I play bullet to work on my meorization of variations and to perfect my openings so if i play people and i am losing horribly or i see that i have gradually started to play poorly i immediately drop everything and go to my chess engine and my files and begin to work out what went wrong. I rarely ever play a bullet game out to checkmate. i either win by resignation win by someone else letting their time run, which i dont mind, or i lose by letting my time run. It has nothing to do with being a good or bad sport or not wanting to resign or whatever i simply am not concerned with the outcome of the entire game in most cases because my main concern is study and practice. Playing games is only a fun way for me to study variations and perfect my openings. Moreover, we are playing bullet games so most likely there is less than 30 seconds left on my clock so its not like i leave people to wait 5 minutes before i lose. and i let my time run maybe only 30% of all my total games in which i have played over 5000 so far. Most likely if we play and are going game after game after game in which i wont be studying in between games ill resign just to get to the next game. But who knows if we play there is a possibility of me leting time run so just know that before we play

so you what youre saying is that you ve been a bad sport over 1000 times?

avoid this player like the plague

Bullet is a personal choice.

The OP has played 8500+ games in 6 months, and his bullet rating is now about 1300, just eight days after he started this thread.

You ain't learning much about the Royal Game.  Sorry.

If you insist on being a speed junkie, at least play Game in 1/5, then you might learn something along the way.  One would hope.

But the assertion you're "working on openings" is pure BS.  It's just another excuse for being a bullet junkie.

Anything faster than Game in 3/0 or Game in 3/5, is typically a pretty sloppy game.

And since your game record is losing at Blitz, your (so-called) study program of working on your opening in bullet and analysing with an engine clearly needs some tweaking.

You have a winning percentage in Bullet, but your getting your butt kicked in Blitz.  Looks like it's time for new business model, Brainaic.

If you want your playing strength to continue stagnating, by all means continue with the cheap thrills.

So knock yourself out moving quickly, and thinking deeply (only afterwards). 

:)

First of all if you look through my blitz history you would see that probably over 1000 of my blitz games have been played against the computer 4 impossible which explains why my avg opponent is as high as my all time high im sure if you played computer 4 impossible in over 1/3 of your games you would have a losing record too. My playing strength is not stagnating it has been steadily improving since this time last year. my bullet used to be 900s and my blitz used to be 1000-1100 so id say im worlds above where i used to be. SInce you seem to think my playing strength is so low why dont you challenge me to a blitz game in your beloved 3/0 time setting.

normally 1-1&1/2 min per move based live games I played in other site.and it seems they are best time control .

Bullet is ok for fun, but don't expect to improve your chess from it..

ChessStudent you are on live chess but I cant reach you accept my chat requests

Anything faster than Game in 10/5 is NOT going to improve your playing strength.

After 9000+ games, if you haven't learned that simple fact, I certainly can't help you.

Knock yourself out, playing super fast and against computers, and all the while insisting that your improving.  It's your life.  

But if you want to improve your chess game, Hit The Books.

5-10 good chess books will produce tremendous results.  "Memorizing opening," and practicing opening at super fast speeds thoroughly wastes your time.

Sorry for any typos above.  The "edit link" wasn't working, yet again.

Ok after another 6 months to a year of doing it my way ill let you know how everything is going.

chess is a thinking game.  for those who don't have much time to spend thinking, or find it boring, reaction chess may be a suitable alternative.

Chess is a thinking game, but you do have some time to think in bullet which some people don't seem to realize here. As for openings you won't improve if you don't care about your opening mistakes, but if you analyse the games and look up theory you have forgotten or face lines you never faced before that might improve your opening. I totally agree though that playing a lot of bullet games don't improve your understanding of the game much, but I don't think blitz is much better either. I like the time control 90 minutes with +30 seconds/move to get a good quality of the game and avoid time trouble.

Look, all I will say is that (actually, it turns out that I end up saying a lot of other things in this post, but I like to use this phrase ), in a bullet game, where I have already thought for 3-4 seconds, I often find it more profitable to play a waiting move than actually take even a few more seconds to find an "actual idea." The sad thing is, this is probably the best idea, because time is so important. Unless you think you will force mate, taking any sort of think in bullet, rather than playing the first move that comes to mind after a millisecond blunder check, is extremely dangerous! In fact, even if you do win a piece, if you are down 5 or more seconds, you are by no means at a clear advantage, as it is much easier to win a game on time than by mate. The point is, none of these concerns apply, in any way, shape, or form, to a game of slow chess.

I will say, however, that bullet chess is certainly chess in some sort -- you will certainly be punished for constantly hanging pieces in bullet. In fact, I generally think of bullet as a test of your ability to play non-blunderous moves very quickly.

Also, you will, indeed, find people who are, in fact, able to find plans, and convert small material advantages in bullet. However, not all of the skills you need to do so in bullet are so necessary in a long time control.

For example, mating with king and queen vs king, with 5 seconds or less on the clock, with no increment, can be surprisingly tough, and anyone who can do it is certainly impressive. In fact, to be able to do this, you'll probably want to practice this mate. However, is this a necessary ability in long time controls? It really isn't -- as long as you simply understand the mate, you will pretty much never have a problem in any tournament time control with increment or delay.

I agree with you elubas, and it becomes even more true in 1 minute bullet. Maybe I was referring too much with 2 minutes +1seconds/move which also is considered bullet where you can avoid loosing on time in time trouble and you can spend 10+ seconds in a critical position. There are still strategies like "give away chess" (or whatever its called) to just make the most unexpected move like capturing a protected pawn with check and if your opponent isn't fast enough he might lose on time. Strategies like that is fun, but it is very doubtful that you will ever be able to use that strategy in slow chess.

I happened to be talking about just pure bullet chess with 1 minute and no increment. It may apply to other, slightly longer time controls, but especially in 1 0.