Is bullet an indicator of being a good otb player?

people forget what lol means

#19 is laughing at "not a good joke"

That's quite rare. Most advanced bullet players at least have some experiences on other time controls. For example, I know someone with 2800 bullet in chess.com, but 2400 in blitz and rapid. The difference isn't that high that goes to 1000. As for the FIDE, he was 1900. Though someone who is 2850 bullet player and under 1000 USCF is completely rare.

I don't see what is the point of playing chess for him

lol

ik what lol means

It's not a joke... people don't know what correlation means.

There is obviously a positive correlation.

People don't often mention it, but bullet is also about the initiative. It's better to post pieces aggressively. If you can get your opponent to start calculating, or if you're the one who gets to decide when to initiate captures and when not to, then you'll gain time on the clock. If that type of thinking carries over into your OTB games you'll just be hurting your position. That's why bullet is close to a variant.

But what if your opponent also moves fast?

If it were just speed, then the rating range would only be a few 100 points.

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Incorrect.

By the way, sometimes when I was playing drunk, I'd move far too fast for 1+0 games, and that'd cause me to lose a lot.

In fact some opponents noticed what was going on, so they'd slow down a bit.

I notice it's usually old people who don't (and probably can't) play bullet who talk about "it's only moving fast." Yeah, maybe to you it's only moving fast, since you physically can't go faster than 1 move every 2 seconds, which is far-far too slow, but between two people who are able to move fast that's not what the game is about.

Being underrated doesn't count... that's a silly example.

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And what do you think that means... come on now, connect the dots... I believe in you, you can do it...

I'm around 1900 in bullet and around 1900 OTB

many ppl think bullet is just about moving fast and as a player who has played over 10,000 games, i can't stress just how wrong this is

that only happens around under 1000

I agree

bullet takes skill... as long as you're over 1800

It is just about moving fast, for most part atleast. A majority of my bullet wins is because I was about to move faster than my opponent and win the game on time

No

It's very rare to find someone whose 1+0 peak is more than 200 points higher than their blitz peak.

It's very rare to find someone whose blitz peak is more than 400 points higher than their FIDE rating (the rating they would be if they played some OTB events and got a rating to reflect their real strength.)

ie. even absolute bullet specialists are still only going to be a few hundred points higher rated at bullet than they are OTB, and if the gap is any bigger than that it's because their OTB rating is old and innacurate

I know which user you're talking about with this, but IMO it's chess.com's own fault. If you don't want 1800s getting 2800 bullet ratings the solution is simple:

• Make 10 second chess it's own rating category
• Ban the super-obvious bots before people can farm off them

I've seen people with differences of 600 between blitz and bullet. Blitz strength is a better indicator but bullet doesn't indicate anything. A lot of 1700 FIDEs could beat bullet 2300s at slowplay.