I totally agree than bullet is really funny; and now lichess have a new feature of 30 seconds games. That's cool because you can train for berserk, but now with Super-Bullet tournaments you can berserk and play a 15 second game. How that can be good to improve our chess skills? With 15 seconds game you have only time to premove, and finally, wins the one who premoves more faster, or simply premoves randomly.
Why everyone including big players keep playing this kind of games which are not apporting anything more than fun and maybe, reducing your chess skills?
Are the big players (like NM, GM, IM, ...) playing this kind of games with random premoves just for fun and no for chess practice?
Thanks.
No, it's not good for chess skills.
People play these kinds of games solely for fun.
Yes, the "big" players play these kinds of games solely for fun and not for "chess practice."
#1 The only way it could benefit a player's chess skills (for slower games) would be by allowing a player to quickly try a variety of openings and check correctness of their opening theory.
At my level, it is a lot more tactical as we can't pre-move established openings; we don't know them. So I guess it helps with that?
Bullet pros:
Can test out opening ideas rapidly.
Improve pattern recog. faster
Makes you better at bullet and blitz.
Reduces nerves/Improves skill in time pressure.
Can help improve how quick you see simple tactics.
Bullet cons:
Opponents sometimes wont be able to refute your tested opening in time, so you dont know if its sound.
Increases the speed at which you play overall.
Lowers your patience when having long amounts on the clock.
Doesn't help calculation abilities as much as long chess.
Overall, it might help a bit in a time pressure situation, but I suggest using blitz which will help you less in time pressure slightly, but doesnt harm long chess abilties as much. Also blitz is a bit better at testing new opening ideas, since your opponent has some time to refute them.
And, by bullet I mean 1-3 min games, blitz i mean 5-10 mins.
15-30 seconds a game really harms longer chess abilities a lot.
It is sometimes fun though.
A bit off topic:
Who else loves the new 30 sec games? I can suddenly beat people hundreds of points higher than me because I can play faster. It's everything that chess shouldn't be and I love it
"Is bullet and super-bullet good for our chess skills?"
I wouldn't even consider it real Chess, especially the latter one. But millions of people enjoy it, so the game fulfills it purpose!
I dunno, but I gave you a lesson :D Just saying!
That said, I'm with you! If you reduce the time constraint any further, it ceases to have much to do with chess at all.
its FUN! do you need a better reason :o
Yeah -ok! We probably need to define fun. But FUN? You going to share that lottery win?
