Laughter after chess game

It's always amazed me how almost every person i play in bullet (1min) can manage to win on time but they were thoroughly demolished in the game usually ending up 5, 10 or even 15 points down at games end and actually laugh about it. Im constantly met with hahahahaha or LOL or Owned and im just at a loss because yes you might have won on time but you were severely beaten until time ran. I would think it would matter more to people that they soundly defeated as opposed to just won the game because time ran. I wouldnt care how many games i won on time if i could look at the board and see that i was horribly crushed. I guess that's me though. I actually care about becoming great and not about internet wins. Maybe im one of few.

Bullet is almost all about time management.  You are getting owned by your opponents and don't seem to realize it.  If you actually cared about becoming great, then you wouldn't waste your time playing bullet.  Or maybe I'm just in a cranky mood tonite.  Old folks get like that. 

Bullet is not chess.

@OP: The shorter the time controls, the greater the effect the clock has on the game. Even in long tournament games (40 moves in two hours, 20 moves in one hour, the remainder of the game in 30 minutes), the clock is often used to the advantage of one player or the other. Time pressure is absolutely ethical to use against an opponent. Most often, time pressure results in one player making a weak move or series of weak moves during the pressure.

Time pressure figures more prominently in shorter games. By the time bullet time controls are reached, the clock is so acutely felt that it almost takes over the game. This is why AKAL1 and others say it isn't even Chess anymore; it's all about reflexes, not good moves. This is every bit as ethical as it is in a long game; the only difference is that the time is compressed.

Ironically, your opponents' refusal to even look for good moves saves them time, giving them an even greater advantage overall as your clock dwindles.

Mocking laughter, of course, is not ethical or sportsmanlike, as you know. But you would benefit from a more precise understanding of what Bullet Chess is, and what it requires in order to win. Many players play it because they want to feel the same rush of defusing the time bomb before it explodes. If you make higher quality moves, but your bomb goes off, then your opponent saved his head.

If you want to become great at Chess, then you should not expect to win in Bullet Chess in the same way as you would other modes. Finding and playing quality moves take time--and in Bullet, you don't have time.

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A good quote by a member whose name I forgot: we can play a chessgame with a clock, or a clockgame with chess pieces.

I see thanks for the feedback all. I honestly only play bullet for two reason...1. It helps me avoid a huge mass of cheaters who can do so quite well at any longer time controls than 1 min. 2. I basically only study openings as for now. I dont have much knowledge, if at all, about the strategy of the game or how to play positionally. My opening knowledge is pretty extensive so i can use that to hold on to a game as long as i dont play too poorly. I get what i need out of the game which is to basically work on strengthening my openings. Developing my pieces, Obtaining the strongest position possible and giving myself an advantage. I have found that its completely transferable. For the most part the openings people play in 1 minute they play in 3 min. Once i solidify my openings i will read and study how to play positionally and strategically and tactically and believe if i am already 1900+ without this knowledge i can be well over 2300 with it.

Jeez, now I feel bad for being mean to you.  That's the first intelligent post I think I've ever read from a bullet player.  I may not agree with your approach, but at least you have a plan.  I hate to break the news to you though, but there are cheaters even in bullet.  Sure it's too fast for them to input moves into an engine, but they just have "bots" play the game for them.  You might as well play at a more comfortable time control.  

Well im sure i encounter cheaters but bullet is the only time control where i have a chance to play a wide range of actual players. If i play longer ill be lower and i wont be able to play the higher ratings. And actually ive been playing bullet for so many years 1 min is comfortable.

Not sure what to correct first...Exclusively playing bullet to learn openings while admitting you're deficient in positional play or avoiding longer time controls because of the 'huge mass of cheaters' conspiring against you..lol..  Sounds like your allowing a totally meaningless chess.com rating to dictate your training.

New players who start with blitz or faster have a really hard time transferring to 'real chess' controls as thier entire 'toolbox' consists of shallow 2-3 move trick tactics that have little to no application in tourament play.  I hope for your sake that chess.com is just a small fraction of your total playing time!

I play exclusively on chess.com. I play blitz as well. Bullet high 1953 and Blitz high 1843 so its not like im using wild gambit opennings to win my games. I know most openings 10-15 deep so if you decide to stray from sound moves with me you will most likely pay for it. I make sound developmental moves and make sure im castled. Openning knowledge seperates average players from great ones and right now im just working on that. And if you pay attention to what i wrote i never said there was a mass of cheaters i just said i would prefer not to encounter them and if i do for it to be in a very small percentage like 1 every 100. I wouldnt call the ratings on here meaningless. I have played many games with CM up to GM and have won quite a few games solely on my openings knowledge and basic tactics knowledge. I have a 2/6/1 record against WGMCamillaB, a 4/2/1 record against FMKBachler, and a 2/0/0 record against NMchess_player_17 to name a few so if im able to defeat these Titled players i have to be doing something right

Mass as in out of all the cheaters on this site a majority of them play longer timed games. Im not calling everyone a cheater. It helps me avoid most of the people who will cheat and makes it to where i only encounter one or two

You shouldn't be playing 1/0. If you want to play bullet, make it 1/1 or 2/1. Reason being, many players who do well on 1/0 find the going MUCH tougher with an increment, and the chances of utterly stupid moves (and yet winning on time) is reduced quite significantly. It's more like real chess.

I do play 1/1 when im noticing my connection isnt good or im losing too many games on time ill switch to that so im not at a disadvantage. Definitely helps.

It boggles the mind what people find cause to complain about. You play bullet, you really can't complain about losing on time... seriously. Just play longer form against good players you trust. It's not rocket science.

This.

I'll take 'What is Vain" for 1000 Alex!

Thats what bullet is...being 5 pieces down and winning by .01 seconds.  

Have to agree. I dislike timers in general, they're one of the few reasons I'm at a low ranking right now. In person I kept an aquaintance who was a chess mentor occupied for at least an hour and a half (and lol, not all of that time was me thinking), without a clock, and I still have the notation, I hope to finish that game in the near future. Point being, yeeeah. Timers=Mental constipation, Bullet=profuse bleeding emmenating from a badly abused brain.

AKAL1 wrote:

Bullet is not chess.