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Wow, I often see players with much higher rapid ratings than bullet, but to this extent is wild! I guess speed can really affect otherwise solid players at the end of the day (and older age can sometimes be a factor here).
If you have any sort of lag or device issue that makes you move a little slower then you could be a grandmaster and still get flagged if your oponnent is able to survive. Bullet is not really an indicator of anything other than bullet skill.
Rinzela wrote:
I can't play bullet. I'm just too old to think fast.
I'm probably older than you are and I don't see what age has to do with being able to think. Experience is irreplaceable.
TheNumberTwenty wrote:
If you have any sort of lag or device issue that makes you move a little slower then you could be a grandmaster and still get flagged if your oponnent is able to survive. Bullet is not really an indicator of anything other than bullet skill.
Agreed.
Tossing pieces around as fast as possible is not chess. That's just a joke.
Don’t know
Aug 6, 2022
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Rinzela wrote:
I can't play bullet. I'm just too old to think fast.
This is my excuse too. (Though maybe it's not my age; maybe I've just always been slow, LOL.) I might someday get my rapid rating as high as 1500, but I don't think my bullet score will follow.
Bullet surely favors the young. Not only in actual thinking speed but clicking as well. I know of someone though who is around 40-50 who (though may not be old) is over 2950 in bullet. A mighty strong NM.
Aug 6, 2022
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Chan_Fry wrote:
Rinzela wrote:
I can't play bullet. I'm just too old to think fast.
This is my excuse too. (Though maybe it's not my age; maybe I've just always been slow, LOL.) I might someday get my rapid rating as high as 1500, but I don't think my bullet score will follow.
me too i feel 16 is very old
Aug 6, 2022
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#13
I can't play bullet at all, doesn't give me time to think properly, although I do play bullet KOTH, and it is kind of easy.
Aug 6, 2022
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BishopCannons wrote:
Rinzela wrote:
I can't play bullet. I'm just too old to think fast.
I'm probably older than you are and I don't see what age has to do with being able to think. Experience is irreplaceable.
Well, I'm 68. I never said you can't think when you're old. I said you can't think FAST. But your mind does diminish as you grow older, regardless of experience. Look at the live ratings list. How many 60+ players do you see? On this site I see members of my old club from the seventies and eighties. All of them are around 400 points lower than they were back then. I myself learned chess at 21. Within two years I reached high class A - low expert rating. I hovered around the same range through the early nineties. I got a job at the USPS in 1985 and was stuck doing graveyard shift so I pretty much had to quit club chess. When I retired, I found internet chess but now I'm rated in the 1600's - roughly 400 points lower then my youthful prime. I also noticed GM Anatoly Lein, who was 2500, is now 2100 (when I checked a few years ago). So when you get some "experience", you'll realize your brain functions will diminish AND slow down. BTW, I used to beat masters and senior masters in 2-minute games. I drew but never beat masters in classical.
Update: What if I, instead, claimed I can't run as fast, or wasn't as strong as I used to be? Would you still say experience would remedy that? I'm also not as handsome as I used to be either. Age is not just a number.
Aug 6, 2022
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Internet connection lags on me a lot, so I lose a lot of games via time outs... so my rating goes up a lot with time.
IMO I think bullet is kinda hard for people who are really good at rapid (not me obviously)
Aug 6, 2022
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#17
2|1 bullet is really-really close to blitz. A difference of 900 to 1700 is very suspicious. I'd want to check things like number of games played. If one of the ratings is only from 2 games for example then we could ignore it.
Aug 6, 2022
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#19
I doubt I can even be 900 in bullet. I tried a few 3-minute games in the variants and got clobbered. I had to return to the 10-minute controls. 5 minutes is pushing it for me. Again, it's my age. I thought my 40+ years experience would help. It didn't. Computers, new ideas...are always changing chess. Chess is a game of calculation after all.
Why are there so many 1700-2000 rapid bracket players at the 900 bracket 2/1 bullet rating. This cracks me up. SMH
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