What is the point of hyperbullet or ultrabullet?

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TipsyTrickster wrote:
Joacomarti wrote:

I'd say it's more to sharpen your mind than anything else

It's easy to guess your low rated form that comment alone. Yeah nothing says "sharpening your mind" like flinging random premoves without any thought until you win on time

I will love to have fast mouse creating pattern skill

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ABC_of_EVERYTHING wrote:

I will love to have fast mouse creating pattern skill

Fast mouse = pattern recognition, gotcha

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It takes more skill than you think. I would consider it a variant based on the fact that over 50% of games do not end because of checkmate or resignation. Therefore the primary goal is to flag the opponent, which makes it a variant.

At a 2000+ level or maybe some point beyond that, you can't just premove aimlessly, or just play the checks that you see and otherwise premove aimlessly, and expect to win. You have to have ultrabullet strategy, tactical awareness, as well as a good reaction time and mouse accuracy. This is especially true in games with a 0.1 second increment.

It's not that degenerate, many people play other games that are purely reaction time and speed.

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It's ironic that I once made this post. I love ultrabullet haha. I burn 2-3 hour chunks playing it every so often.

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hyperbullet/ultrabullet is kinda like drugs. its really addicting.

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piedraven wrote:

Can a human even think that fast? I love my rapid but I doubt I could do anything in 15 seconds except just mindlessly fire pieces around. Might as well pour neat adrenaline on the keyboard and press enter.

You learn absolutely nothing from hyperbullet and ultrabullet. People don’t think, they just spam random premoves and hope to win on time.

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It's a braindead format. Not much one can learn from this format.

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CockroachDolly wrote:

It's a braindead format. Not much one can learn from this format.

time: 80% important

actual chess: 20% important

similar comparison: drugs, gambling addiction

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SoupSailor wrote:

It takes more skill than you think. I would consider it a variant based on the fact that over 50% of games do not end because of checkmate or resignation. Therefore the primary goal is to flag the opponent, which makes it a variant.

At a 2000+ level or maybe some point beyond that, you can't just premove aimlessly, or just play the checks that you see and otherwise premove aimlessly, and expect to win. You have to have ultrabullet strategy, tactical awareness, as well as a good reaction time and mouse accuracy. This is especially true in games with a 0.1 second increment.

It's not that degenerate, many people play other games that are purely reaction time and speed.

0.1 second increment???

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hmmm

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I actually liked it but I needed to stop. It just stops me from improving.
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Artyom_Georgiev wrote:
SoupSailor wrote:

It takes more skill than you think. I would consider it a variant based on the fact that over 50% of games do not end because of checkmate or resignation. Therefore the primary goal is to flag the opponent, which makes it a variant.

At a 2000+ level or maybe some point beyond that, you can't just premove aimlessly, or just play the checks that you see and otherwise premove aimlessly, and expect to win. You have to have ultrabullet strategy, tactical awareness, as well as a good reaction time and mouse accuracy. This is especially true in games with a 0.1 second increment.

It's not that degenerate, many people play other games that are purely reaction time and speed.

0.1 second increment???

Exactly what it sounds like. The point is that premoves won't cost any time on the clock. It adds more flavor because even if a player has 0.1 seconds on the clock, they can still win.

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It's literally just a race to premove flag, there's zero skill beyond how fast your hand/eye coordination is- hyper bullet is the epitome of a game created for nerds who are too weak to play proper chess but want to flex and pretend like they have skill anyway

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Andrew Tang is @penguinigm1 on chess.com in case no one knew
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Oops I made a mistake. It’s @penguingm1

He was not banned.
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The only strategy is to keep checking your opponent to stop them from premoving and you flag them

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Artyom_Georgiev wrote:

The only strategy is to keep checking your opponent to stop them from premoving and you flag them

That + having a better internet connection.

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Artyom_Georgiev wrote:

The only strategy is to keep checking your opponent to stop them from premoving and you flag them

This doesn't work once you surpass 1500 rating.

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SoupSailor wrote:
Artyom_Georgiev wrote:

The only strategy is to keep checking your opponent to stop them from premoving and you flag them

This doesn't work once you surpass 1500 rating.

Then how...