5 basic steps to become good at bullet

Sometimes it’s the only way to break through the posivitivty bubble 

Also I can’t spell

Good moves beat fast play every damn time 

I like to believe anything is possible but there is no such thing as a positiveity bubble. Unless you just invented the bubble? I can't spell either. I am positive of that.

What is a veity? Nvm. 

+1

I wonder how high I could get a 1 minute bullet rating only moving knights and pawns?

(any move to get out of check is also allowed, and any recapture is also allowed)

Ok so I run out of moves too quickly.

New rule.

Only knight moves and pawn moves and recaptures... BUT at move 30 I can play normally.

I reckon you could manage ~1800 bullet playing like that. The move 30 rule makes it a bit easier

Happy 12 year anniversary on chess.com BTW

lol

I'd be happy to get to 1800 honestly. This isn't so easy. I'm going to aim for 1500.

In any case I'll plan on 100 games and report back.

If I can get over OP's rating... and especially if I can get higher than OP's BEST rating then probably my bullet tips are better than his.

And remember I'm not trying to shame a random noob. He's played 10,000 games and is making topics giving people tips.

If I did this in 30 sec chess, I genuinely think I could remain 2200+. But in 1 minute, obviously it's much harder. But since you're stronger than me, is be surprised if you don't manage 1800. Also, you could probably reach the OPs rating down a queen and after 10 beers

One problem is when you lose both knights the game is pretty much over because you have to just sit there and move pawns.

And I am drunk, which probably makes this a bit harder (since recaptures are ok there's some strategy in making sure things are guarded)

And yes, 30 second bullet would be a lot easier... in hyperbullet it's a game of making sure things are guarded and only recapturing anyway.

Taking a break to eat, but will still go for 100 games.

As far as your tips being better, it would be hard to argue with results like 1500, or 1800. I've not been there. However what you are proposing as an offense is not sound. 

I am no noob, relatively speaking. It's just that my other account (2010-2018) where I played only daily and rapid time control became corrupt and I had to delete the account. 

This is my first time in the forum. Or any forum. Hello. 

In the last 20 games I've gone from 1520 to... 1520.

I think my initial assessment was right and 1500 is as far as I can go with these rules, so I'm stopping before 100 games.

It might sound easy to only move knights and pawns until move 30, but for example look at this position, black can immediately win white's rook or queen.

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Or for example this position, blunders before move 30 don't mater because here white can't capture the queen

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So it's pretty hard, and even while drunk pretty boring, so I'll excuse myself stopping after 30 games.

A stronger argument than "it's offensive" would be that good advice is good no matter your rating. Even if Hikaru can play without his queen and beat 2000 rated players that doesn't mean it's useful to sacrifice your queen. Good advice is, for example, to keep your king safe and try to have active pieces... and this advice is useful to everyone. If I can beat players moving knights and pawns that doesn't mean it's good to move knights and pawns (not that I ever suggested that, but anyway, it's a better argument than offence).

Another argument would be that even if someone preforms poorly it doesn't mean their knowledge is bad. For example professional sports coaches can't play better because their bodies prohibit them, but this doesn't make their knowledge any less valid.

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Having said that, when you peaked at 1300 after 10,000 games it's reasonable to expect some backlash when you try to give advice.

As for my exercise, more specifically it was aimed at your comment (paraphrasing) "good moves always beat fast moves"

Obviously this is not true in bullet. I maintained a 1500 rating playing absurd moves in 1 minute games. My moves were always worse, but I eventually won some games.