I recently started playing bullet on chess.com for fun, and am really enjoying it. I noticed that in positions I'm familiar with, I can play a pretty good game, not too far off from a longer game. But in new positions, I play like someone rated much, much lower.

Basically I'm playing to try to force my brain to see moves and motifs quicker. Hopefully it works.

Any of y'all play much bullet?

I've played it but I'm not a believer in its effectiveness as a training method. Maybe it will help you spotting 1- and 2-move tactics though, who knows...

1 min games are all I ever play now. I used to play 3-5 minutes but I found it a bit boring. Don't really have the patience for 'proper' chess

I am also a 3-min blitz and 1-min bullet player and I think bullet really improves your thinking speed but in terms of game quality, 1minute doesnt allow for many good decisions. If you want, we can play some bullet on chess.com or playchess.com, just PM me

I think bullet builds your intuitive aspect of chess. This can be good and bad. It can be good because your ability to play a certain type of position improves. It also helps develop your ability to assess familiar positions quicker, resulting in faster/pattern-like play. It can also be bad because that pattern-like play you adapted in a familiar position might be a bad or inferior strategy.

For example, I've been playing the french for decades. Against the exchange variation, I play a passive, undynamic, and drawish line. This is a really bad habit, but I've built my intuition on these type of position after adapting it for a decade and using it nonstop in bullet. There are clearly better lines I can take, but I am not as developed in those lines since I have no pattern recognization for those variations.

I've got 100,000+ games under my belt in G1 and G2. I don't play much any more though. The key is "don't think, just move". Once you start thinking, you might as well resign. Throw all your pawns forward at the opponent's castled King. Make him spend an extra second or two thinking about how to repel the attack. The attack doesn't have to suceed, it just has to win you time on the clock. Now he has to mate you to win. I won the great majority of my games on time. If I ever lost because my time expired first, I was usually shocked.

Bullet is addictive but ultimately annoys me. It rewards just moving without thinking and finding "annoying" rather than good moves. I think 2-minute chess is a better balance between lack of attention span and actually playing to win games rather than waste your opponent's time.