If the scariest opponents are the ones who premove everything and don't even seem to care what moves they make, it shouldn't be considered legit. And that is how it feels to me when I"m playing 1|0.
When someone premoves everything, you are almost forced to premove to keep pace with them. In a normal game, you can use your opponent's time to think of your next move. But for constant premovers, it just doesn't work.
Oh it gets so boring.
You pin the f3N'.... h3 and then surprise ,surprise g5 +Qside castle.
This patzer stuff makes me cringe.
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There is validity to the original post concerning this topic, But the trend for the future is bullet and blitz are going to replace slow chess for alot of people.
Was looking through the latest Informant. There are quite a few online blitz games in there. If they are publishable in Informant, there is no doubt they are chess. I don’t care what Fisher says. Actually, I’ve never cared about Fischer’s opinions (except his concrete analysis of chess positions—there Fischer is useful).
i'm not high rated in rapid or blitz - probably around 900, and bullet and blitz both help me learn openings. if you want to say its not chess, and more of a learning tool that might be up for debate. but! to say that these games are just random moves or favors pre-movers or defensive players is just wrong. skill isn't always about rating, even at lower ratings. (you could be 200 rated but actually a decent 800 player just experimenting with different openings in rated games) eventually once you get good enough you will outpace them and call them out on their BS and win by hanging pieces, checkmates, and eventually by time. you just have to get really good. if you're losing to people who play random moves, then you're just not good IMO.... if someone wins on time because theyre just moving their king around for 15 seconds while you're thinking about how to checkmate them then maybe you're bad and should get faster at checkmating people lol
I’ve been told that several times. Especially as you are starting out and want to get better.
Blitz is most certainly chess. Bullet is most certainly chess. Hyperbullet...eh
you haven't gotten any better though xd
I haven't been practicing with intent to get better. just puzzles recently
i like blitz but not bullet. nakamura even has a bullet chess book in which in one of the game he suggest a queen sacrifice not for mate or compensation but win on time. i consider bullet a chess variant.
I agree with you 100% in bullet. Most people that are not very good, including me, usually just try to simplify as much as possible to save time. I'd say 70 percent of my bullet game wins are from flagging, probably even more than that. I think blitz is a bit better, though, since I usually get enough time to think about each move.
I understand what ur saying about bullet but tbh u can use blitz is probably the best if you want to actually improve
I understand what ur saying about bullet but tbh u can use blitz is probably the best if you want to actually improve
Blitz is better than bullet if you want to get better, but rapid and daily are best. The slower the time control are, the more time you get to think. You make better moves and then when you get used to it, you play faster.
blitz and bullet are for fun for me.
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Depends what you define "chess"
Different types of chess results in different skills and in the end you need to learn all of it
You can be amazing at rapid, but if you get into time trouble you'll need bullet and blitz skills to help
Now, bullet and blitz as it's own is fine
Bullet requires fast thinking + blundering less
Blitz isn't even that bad flagging wise, just play semi decent chess and don't take a minute per move
If you want to get better, you gotta master all time controls, so, yes, it is chess
If you define chess as whatever as long as it has the fundamental rules, it's chess
Long story short, I don't consider bullet chess to be real chess at anything short of an elite level. Because at a low-to-middle level, the clock is not a feature of the game. It IS the game. Countless players make no effort to disguise that their goal from move 1 is to win on time. Their entire approach is designed to burn time rather than improve their position.
I totally agree. Bullet is basically just Beat The Clock ... not real chess. Blitz is barely real chess.
If the scariest opponents are the ones who premove everything and don't even seem to care what moves they make, it shouldn't be considered legit. And that is how it feels to me when I"m playing 1|0.
When someone premoves everything, you are almost forced to premove to keep pace with them. In a normal game, you can use your opponent's time to think of your next move. But for constant premovers, it just doesn't work.
If they disabled pre-moves, then bullet might be a legit chess variant and not just "Beat The Clock" with a chess theme. I still would never play any game faster than G/5 though. I prefer quality over quantity.
Okay, I completely disagree. Bullet is just speed chess, but games like 5 min blitz are way more fun to play, and can also help you find tactics, checkmates, etc. faster. Some people don't have the time (or patience, in my case) to play longer time settings. For me, if I want a legitimate game, I play correspondence (mostly on a different chess site though).