Play Bullet, it doesn't matter how much you lose but it will improve your longer game.

. . . you haven't put together a coherent argument or anything. This thread is simply in the way now. Unfollowing.

I get better at bullet by getting better at slower chess, not by playing more bullet.

bullet can help you get better at finding tactics faster, but you shouldn't just do bullet

in bullet you can do all the tactics you can do in normal chess, but you can also do other tactics (to make them run out of time or mess up while premoving )

in bullet even if you are in a completely lost game sometimes you can flag them(make there time run out)

what I did was first i did rapid then blitz then bullet

I been flagged AHOY

I been flagging AHOY

I been increasing my rating AHOY

bullet rating

Quoting many chess instructors (Dan Heisman among them) -- playing fast games can help you *if and only if* you analyze the game afterwards.  It can help you recognize tactics more quickly, you can practice opening lines and see where your first non-book move was, etc.  

But if you don't analyze them, then it's mostly just entertainment and an adrenaline rush.  Which is not a bad thing, but not nearly as helpful to improve your long game.

I used to have adrenaline rush, but now I don't

sholom90 you don't do bullet

Good idea, will follow suit

I know.  I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.  My commend was based on what the general consensus among experts is, and was about *fast* games, by which I meant to include bullet and blitz -- about which I wrote:

Quoting many chess instructors (Dan Heisman among them) -- playing fast games can help you *if and only if* you analyze the game afterwards. It can help you recognize tactics more quickly, you can practice opening lines and see where your first non-book move was, etc.

But if you don't analyze them, then it's mostly just entertainment and an adrenaline rush. Which is not a bad thing, but not nearly as helpful to improve your long game.

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* the reason I don't play blitz is because I'm older, and the faster the game goes, the worse I do.  My daily is 400 above my rapid, which is 300 points above my blitz.  So, I'm not even going to try bullet for a while!

I notice that many younger folks (say, early 20's or less) have the opposite pattern: better ratings with the faster games than with the slower ones.

Dramatically!

FWIW, Dan Heisman's thoughts on time controls -- which I alluded to in comment #161 (11 months ago) - are here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140627030447/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman115.pdf  

I don't think I'll ever play bullet

Why people get extra time during blitz? Is it with every game type?

That type of time control is called 'an increment' - so you might see a blitz game described as 3+2, that means 3 minutes to each side with 2 seconds added for each move.

If you've been watching the Generation Cup games they are playing 15+10, so they start with 15 minutes and have 10 seconds added per move. You do see increment in the longer time controls too, I think I'd be right in saying in the Sinquefield cup there was 1hr30mins for 40 moves, with 30 seconds added for each move.....hence you saw some quick draws with player ending the match with move time than they started with!