When you make silly assumptions you come to silly conclusions. For example, you appear to have assumed that all of the ratings here on chess.com should correspond to similar numbers in their counterparts. That is a silly assumption.
Your blitz rating of 1188 corresponds to a stronger level of play than your standard rating of 1327.
There are a few things you need to have to play bullet:
1. You need to premove, especially in the beginning. This way you spend much less time there and you have enough time to at least register what move your opponent makes once you get to the middlegame. In order to premove, you will first have to go to the settings in live chess and enable the premoves.
2. You have to have a good mouse. If your mosue is in bad shape physically, you will need to get a new one. You also have to make sure that your mouse sensitivity is set high enough that you can quickly move it across the board, but not so fast you lose control. Decreasing the board size might also help here. I only have a laptop without a mouse, and I find that the touchpad is just too awkward to be able to play bullet, but that might have something to do with my computer, or maybe I'm just a loser. :P
3. You also have to have a really good connection to the internet. If it doesn't load your opponents moves immediately or you disconnect often, you will always be in time trouble.
You might look at my bullet rating and say, why would I trust you? Well, I looked this up myself, and as I said, my touchpad just doesn't seem to work for me, so my rating is still awful in bullet. I usually get a winning position and then flag because I just can't play the moves fast enough. My computer also likes to disconnect from wifi for a few seconds quite often, which just makes matters worse. Hope these help :)
Learning more about the game, so that you can recognize things faster. Without much knowledge bullet will be way to fast for you.
@c5 warrior, I am not very good at chess and I don't know very much about ratings or anything. I'm sorry if I... uh... um... well I guess there's nothing to be sorry about. I'm just stupid.
@Nichole thanks for all the help! I will use it even though your rating isn't very high, I think it definitely makes sense. I have been on a trackpad the whole time, maybe I should try the mouse I have. :)
@Damonevic Haha the problem is, I move a little bit TOO fast HAHA I usually blow all of my pieces within the first 15 seconds.
@skotheim2 I will try!
First have an idea what would your first moves be. Play safe, dont premove at openings, dont put pieces on akward or undefended squares. Dont attack or move pieces or pawns in the center (one is okay) at early. They can be easy targets. Castle quick. Develop most of pieces. Slowly push more pawns. Trade trade trade. Save your rooks or at least one. It is easy to premove with a rook in open position when you both have 5 sec left. Kee[ knight - they are more valuable in bullet than bishops.
In other hand lower rated players can find themself in very cramp position out of opening. KID does not work well in bullet, players often pawn storm you and they gain space and time on clock and also you often have to move a piece twice or more and defend from pawns.
There are a few things you need to have to play bullet:
1. You need to premove, especially in the beginning. This way you spend much less time there and you have enough time to at least register what move your opponent makes once you get to the middlegame. In order to premove, you will first have to go to the settings in live chess and enable the premoves.
2. You have to have a good mouse. If your mosue is in bad shape physically, you will need to get a new one. You also have to make sure that your mouse sensitivity is set high enough that you can quickly move it across the board, but not so fast you lose control. Decreasing the board size might also help here. I only have a laptop without a mouse, and I find that the touchpad is just too awkward to be able to play bullet, but that might have something to do with my computer, or maybe I'm just a loser. :P
3. You also have to have a really good connection to the internet. If it doesn't load your opponents moves immediately or you disconnect often, you will always be in time trouble.
You might look at my bullet rating and say, why would I trust you? Well, I looked this up myself, and as I said, my touchpad just doesn't seem to work for me, so my rating is still awful in bullet. I usually get a winning position and then flag because I just can't play the moves fast enough. My computer also likes to disconnect from wifi for a few seconds quite often, which just makes matters worse. Hope these help :)
Judge Judy says she doesn't believe that story about onlly having a touchpad. Why don't u get a usb mouse and plug it in or doesn't your laptop have usb ports.
When you make silly assumptions you come to silly conclusions. For example, you appear to have assumed that all of the ratings here on chess.com should correspond to similar numbers in their counterparts. That is a silly assumption.
Your blitz rating of 1188 corresponds to a stronger level of play than your standard rating of 1327.
1. that made no sense
2. stop hating on people for no reason
@Aim-AceMove that was really, REALLY, REALLLLLY helpful! Thank you so much! By the way your bullet rating is insane.
@beretm9 I think I should trust you when it comes to bullet, given you profile picture! ;)
Learning more about the game, so that you can recognize things faster. Without much knowledge bullet will be way to fast for you.
Not true. I can recognize many things from a random position that has a positional advantage (not very good at tactics/dynamic positions) in just a few seconds, and yet i suck at bullet ;<
Try moving really fast while following this general guideline:
get your pieces active
look out for silly mates
This obviously isn't a good plan in blitz, but trust me, in bullet it works.
I have time trouble a lot though :<
@Aim-AceMove that was really, REALLY, REALLLLLY helpful! Thank you so much! By the way your bullet rating is insane.
@beretm9 I think I should trust you when it comes to bullet, given you profile picture! ;)
no not the pun game
I am pretty sure that you don't have positional understanding as you think you have, with your rating of 1300 blitz and even worse 1400 standard..
memorizing openings and ideas helps. I'm better at bullet than blitz because I use grimy premove tactics and time people out with haphazard checks and such. But seriously your bullet rating is about where it should be considering your other ratings. Just be alert and stick to your instincts rather than analyzing every move.
Not at all, Anarchy. I know quite a few people who are brilliant at bullet who play stuff like 1.e3 2.Ke2 3.Qe1 4.Kd1 in bullet and win. Others play 1.Nf3 2.Ng1 3.Nf3 and so on until Black has a concrete threat.
The way to get better at bullet is
No, I'm not good and I don't claim to be. What do you mean
"I am pretty sure that you don't have positional understanding as you think you have, with your rating of 1300 blitz and even worse 1400 standard.."
It's advice. I don't need to take it and I appreciate the time she spent writing it.
No, I'm not good and I don't claim to be. What do you mean
"I am pretty sure that you don't have positional understanding as you think you have, with your rating of 1300 blitz and even worse 1400 standard.."
That comment was directed at beretm9 who claimed to be able to quickly recognize important strategical imbalances. What he said about 1400 standard rating being worse than a 1300 blitz is exactly the same as what I said earlier.
Basically, don't listen to anything that beretm9 says. He claims that the simple and widely accepted concept of varying rating inflations doesn't make sense. He then dissagrees with another simple and correct concept that has been stated by other people here: knowledge/experience of the game is more important in bullet than in longer forms. The guy is an idiot.
By far the best post here is AIM-AceMove's. A lot of good points there that I was personally previously unaware of and lot of good ones that I was. Just ignore the "Trade trade trade." part. That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Maybe something more like:
Look at your previous bullet games and decide who usually plays endgames better, you or your opponents? Or, who runs out of time more often, you or your opponents? If those answers are both you then trade trade trade. If they are both your opponents then avoid trades at all costs.
As you can tell from my ratings, the more time I have, the better I do. So I'm not terrible at online chess, I'm all right at standard, bad at blitz, and terrible at bullet.
What's the trick? How do you get good at bullet? What openings do you use? Do you have any tips for a terrible bullet-er?