Does Bullet Chess hurt your Standard Games?

I'm referring to live chess by the way; as an amateur which I imagine the overwhemingly vast majority of you guys are.

But does it?

Does it help you make fast, prepared openings so you can spend more time thinking and calculating in your standard middle games? And does it help you see clearly winning end games more clearly so you can quickly convert an advantage endgame into a won game, again saving you time to think deeply in standard middle games. Also playing bullet would just help you be really fast with your mouse in general saving you maybe a few seconds or more each move which would probably end up saving you at least a minute or more for standard games.

Or does playing bullet games encourage you to think more superficially in your standard games? Plus I would imagine playing lots of bullet gamesjust makes you very impatient in general and encourage thinking short term.

I know people have talked about this before but I can't seem to find a thread about it.

No effect for me. I truly stink at bullet-haven't won one game. I simply have no time to think. And my c.c rating is similar to yours.

I don't like bullet. If I were to play bullet it would have to be 2|1 & even then I'm not liking it. There are people who can play this way & be really good at it but I'd argue they didn't start playing chess that way. They got good 1st at a much more reasonable pace. Maybe playing on a PC with a mouse makes a big difference but I'd still avoid it. Blitz with 5|5 would be much more acceptable but rapid 15|10 is my favorite way to play. I recommend it for a more relaxing & true progression of your ability.

Bullet chess often requires quick tactical calculations and decision-making, which can enhance your ability to calculate variations rapidly. This skill can translate to standard games, where time pressure may also be a factor.

I find that bullet chess does help one develop quick tactical vision, and helps one learn how to better use the initiative.

Though I'd also say that bullet reinforces the mindset that it's "okay" to play sloppy and make mistakes - just as long as you do it quickly.

So there's some benefit and some harm. Ideally, a player should be flexible enough to play more thoughtfully in standard chess than they do in bullet ...

No actually I think in moderation bullet is helpful whenever I play it I actually use my time vs me rushing to much in rapid because a lot of bullet is just surviving and time management

The issue with bullet chess is you get tunnel vision alot easier so you have to find a way to compensate in your blitz or rapid games

'I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.' - GM Nigel Short

Probably. But playing too much standard chess will also hurt your bullet.

The good part of bullet is that you need to get extremely used to your openings so you can play them on intuition, same goes for tactical situations.

the bad is that positional chess goes out the window and you get away with playing extremely sloppy chess that opponents can pick apart in slow games

Unless your hyper positional like me lol I need the bullet otherwise my tactics are terrible

No it doesn't, unless you don't play longer games regularly.

Though I'm not qualified enough to say for certain, I'd be inclined to suggest that classical chess and bullet chess have different critical moments, meaning bullet pushes you to put in effort in different places than you should in classical. In bullet, you can jump into complications and as long as they're sufficiently complicated and you take some effort in the complications, you'll be fine. Longer games tend to punish that a bit more (though you can get away with it).

If you play enough longer formats, you should be fine because you'll still keep the classical habits.