How to Get Better At Bullet Chess

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stormrunner07

Hey guys, I am wondering but how do you get better at bullet chess. Is there some particular strategy or opening? Or is there a typical thing you have to do on the board a lot more often. Please help me and tell me some strategies to improve my bullet rating. Right now, I have a rating of 1250.

stormrunner07

Oh, so back to the topic, is there a way to get better at bullet chess?

BulletMatetricks

yeah

BulletMatetricks

i maybe might make a guide..it is all my strategies to get over 2000

majipoor

Get better at chess.

BulletMatetricks

well first u ned to get pretty good at chess, then have a good opening that u can premove for white and black, then hover move, then keep tension and yeah

pujara123
harryz wrote:

For a second I thought you were macer

me tooo

stormrunner07

Lol

BulletMatetricks

or play 1. f3 ... 2. Kf2

2200ismygoal

The way to get better at bullet chess is to play more bullet chess.  I find that sharp openings work the best for this kind of chess but it is a double edge sword.

stormrunner07

Oh

rockongirl

im a 1300, but i dont play that much bullet chess :P (i play more regular and blitz and slower chess and my rating is LOWER!)

FireAndLightz

Play fast and learn to improve at 1 opening will help a lot I think at bullet chess.

JMB2010

Just ask GargleBlaster:

http://www.chess.com/blog/GargleBlaster/gargleblasters-guide-to-bullet-chess

http://www.chess.com/blog/GargleBlaster/gargleblasters-guide-to-bullet-chess-part-two-the-art-of-the-pre-move

http://www.chess.com/blog/GargleBlaster/ten-things-you-need-to-play-bullet-well

http://www.chess.com/blog/GargleBlaster/gargleblasters-20-bullet-chess-maxims

ilikecapablanca

Bust out moving as fast as you can.

Meh95

You simply improve your internet connections, bullet chess is not chess(arghhh i hate it ) lol :p

Xilmi

I never had the intention to ever play bullet. Now I saw this thread and played two games of it.

To my enjoyment I won both of them.

Now Bullet is my best-ranked category.

In the game that I didn't win on time but by checkmate I blundered a rook but my opponent didn't take it and thus I won.

It's actually quite a fun and thrilling mode.

waffllemaster

Play a lot more bullet.  Practice makes perfect... well, as perfect as your bullet chess can be hah.  The evaluations are a bit different than regular chess.  For example it's ok to let your opponent have a better position as long as it's more complicated for them than it is for you.  So often you'll want things like sharp openings, attacking and sacrifices as 2200ismygoal ad gargleblaster mention.

Look for and remember useful patterns.  Not only openings but tactics, strategy, endgame, anything.  A bishop and knight with two squares in between, the bishop covers all the knight's squares on that side of the board.   So in bullet if a knight makes you uncomfortable maybe you get your bishop in that position without thinking, just automatically.  Sure it may not give you a good position, but it's solid and you were able to do it instantly without really thinking.

Attacking too.  Get some pieces in front of the enemy king and sacrifice.  The attack doesn't have to be good, just scary.

And of course a lot of tactical pattern recognition.  You want to calculate as little as possible.  So for example removing the defender theme.  You see a knight guarding two pieces and the knight is the only defender of both.  Those two pieces should "light up" in your mind (so to speak, not literally hallucinate).  Add an attacker to both, capture one, and win the other, pure logic and reaction, no calculation.


Once you maximize your pre-conditioned automatic pattern stuff, then you should go back and learn some more about chess, giving you new ideas and patterns to play instantly.  So to sum up, two methods, both necessary:  practice more bullet chess, and improve your standard chess.