I need help with bullet chess, any tips? I suck reallyy bad at it.

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LeonSKennedy992
I play the horseshoe gambit as white and the elderberry defense as black and while most GMs consider them sound for one minute bullet, I have trouble playing them.
phyrru

just play quickly and dont think too much:your opponent only has 1 minute too!

kindaspongey

"..., you have to make a decision: have tons of fun playing blitz (without learning much), or be serious and play with longer time controls so you can actually think.
One isn’t better than another. Having fun playing bullet is great stuff, while 3-0 and 5-0 are also ways to get your pulse pounding and blood pressure leaping off the charts. But will you become a good player? Most likely not.
Of course, you can do both (long and fast games), ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (June 9, 2016)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

ami_anjali

Here's a cowardly but efficient strategy : When playing as black, just copy your opponents move unless the opponent can check you in the next move (in that case of course you can't copy back). This will startle the opponent in bullet for sure. Although the same trick may not work repeatedly. Use it as a sneak attack.

Also, when opponents time is < 5 sec, just close your eyes and make any legal move.