speeding up my bullet games

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Avatar of benonidoni

On 1 minute bullet games I'm running 24 seconds behind the other player which obviously tells you I'm way behind. Other than dragging and premoving what are some ideas to speed up bullet play?

Avatar of Loomis

faster brain?

Avatar of Biarien

Don't spend too much time calculating. Either play safe moves (e.g., he's attacking a pawn, so just defend it) or just trust your intuition.  There's not much time to think in 1m games.

Avatar of benonidoni

thanks: thought maybe they had robotic mice or keyed in moves. Boy they move fast.

Avatar of Shivsky

If you enjoy hustling on the clock, Learn to instantly ONLY look at forcing moves that burn his clock if you are dominating and ONLY "non-losing" moves if you are being pushed around or are falling behind on the clock.

Of course, here's a crazy idea. Play serious chess at slow time controls so well that your brain learns to see things faster and more accurately.  No way in the world that would work ...