Blitz. Bullet seems like it was invented by red bull.
Bullet or Blitz??
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I'm terrible at bullet.
And blitz... :/
lol red bull
Blitz, 3-minute is my favourite time control. It is great to practice tactics and new openings
As for the bullets, I prefer them OTB. When playing on internet I either forfeit on time or make moves I did not intend (mouselips).
When I was younger I played OTB (there were no internet servers in the 90's) with a crazy time control 1min vs. 30min (me having 1min). Sometimes I won on time but now my hands are not that fast :D
Neither, both are terrible for your chess playing ability as it corresponded to OTB games with regular time controls...
Jun 11, 2013
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#7
I hate both (and yet I manage to play thousands of games every year). 
Perhaps this obsession with hated speed games is why I'm lousy at the game. See also http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2009/01/blitz-addiction.html for more of my thoughts on the subject.
I'll play 5|0 nowadays. I prefer 10|0 or better.
Ziryab wrote:
I hate both (and yet I manage to play thousands of games every year).
Perhaps this obsession with hated speed games is why I'm lousy at the game. See also http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2009/01/blitz-addiction.html for more of my thoughts on the subject.
From your blog:
Blackburne said "I know a lot of people who hold the view that Chess is an excellent means of training the mind in logic and shrewd calculation, prevision, and caution. But I don't find these qualities reflected in the lives of Chess Players. They are just as fallible, and as foolish if you like, as other folk who don't know a Rook from a Pawn. But even if it were a form of mental discipline—which I take leave to doubt—I should still object to it on the ground of its fatal fascination. Chess is a kind of mental alcohol. It inebriates the man who plays it constantly. He lives in a chess atmosphere, and his dreams are of gambits and end games. I have known many an able man ruined by Chess. The game has charmed him, and as a consequence he has given up everything to the charmer. No; unless a man has supreme self-control it is better that he should not learn to play Chess."
Perhaps this should strike a note of caution into my current studies combining mental alcohol with... well... alcohol...
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-experiment-how-much-does-three-pints-of-beer-impact-your-chess-ability
5|0 is my favourite. Enough time to think, and practice being under time pressure. For nice long thinks I'll come to the forums to analyse games (selfish altruism?) 3|0 is the fastest I'll go, anything below and it stops being chess.
Anything with an increment of more than 2 seconds is also good, as they just devolve into slower games.
Jun 11, 2013
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#11
DrJamesB wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
I hate both (and yet I manage to play thousands of games every year).
Perhaps this obsession with hated speed games is why I'm lousy at the game. See also http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2009/01/blitz-addiction.html for more of my thoughts on the subject.
From your blog:
Blackburne said "I know a lot of people who hold the view that Chess is an excellent means of training the mind in logic and shrewd calculation, prevision, and caution. But I don't find these qualities reflected in the lives of Chess Players. They are just as fallible, and as foolish if you like, as other folk who don't know a Rook from a Pawn. But even if it were a form of mental discipline—which I take leave to doubt—I should still object to it on the ground of its fatal fascination. Chess is a kind of mental alcohol. It inebriates the man who plays it constantly. He lives in a chess atmosphere, and his dreams are of gambits and end games. I have known many an able man ruined by Chess. The game has charmed him, and as a consequence he has given up everything to the charmer. No; unless a man has supreme self-control it is better that he should not learn to play Chess."
Perhaps this should strike a note of caution into my current studies combining mental alcohol with... well... alcohol...
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-experiment-how-much-does-three-pints-of-beer-impact-your-chess-ability
Yes. With a good craft brew in one hand, and a finely carved knight in the other, I am so thoroughly smitten that I am unable to perceive the beautiful woman in front of me.
Blitz is more fun for me. I play bullet when I'm tried and don't want to think. It's fun to move nearly instantly but it doesn't feel like chess.
3min Blitz is my favourite.
Jun 12, 2013
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#15
3 0 is best for avoiding cheaters (except time cheaters). 5 0 is better when I'm using blitz to improve my game.
I avoid increments unless I'm playing someone whom I know that I can trust.
I prefer Blitz...playing very fast like in bullet doesn't improve the game.
Game in 3/5 is the fastest I can handle. Still, it's tough on the nerves.
Ziryab wrote:
I hate both (and yet I manage to play thousands of games every year).
Perhaps this obsession with hated speed games is why I'm lousy at the game. See also http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2009/01/blitz-addiction.html for more of my thoughts on the subject.
This link says it all. Everyone should read it.
Very incisive. Thanks @Ziryab.
Do you guys enjoy bullet or blitz chess more??
I like bullet because it's fast, but I also like blitz, because I can actually have a moment to think, and not lose every game horribly (like I do in bullet).
So, which do you enjoy?
I'm expecting more to like bullet cause it's fun, but we'll see!
Suvel