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My friend told me 1+0 games won't give me any progress

i'm being one hundred. although i've been playing 1+0 for two months, i never ever have tried to progress, all i do is trying to play as fast as possible and 95% of my games are won on time, when my material is less than opponent's. i reached 1400+ only by that means.

i played my chess mens few days ago and he told me that i should play blitz otherwise 1+0 games won't do anything better thus my chess skills won't progress.

should i believe it and change my approach?
Here was my approach: started out with rapid and slowly eased into blitz, the bullet

You can't start OUT with bullet tho
You should start with classical or rapid. You try to improve. Once you get better you can try not to lose too much of that gained strength in blitz.
If you play bullshit it will get you nowhere. And you have to ask such things?
Just a random game of yours, the last one. What is this supposed to be? Kindergarten for life? Or just trolling?

Your friends, Sarg0n and the others here are right. You can't improve in bullet if you're a beginner.
It's too fast, and then you play another game ASAP, quickly forgetting if there were lessons learned from the previous game.
So where does the learning occur?

Get it right, and then you get it fast.

The other way around doesn't seem to work:
Play many and fast, sooner or later you'll get it right.

Except if you're a neural network.
if you want to get better you should focus on rapid and classical.
Play slow time controls for real improvement.

Beginners like us don't have that pattern recognition or instincts to play well in fast time controls, we simply need more time. It is much better to have time on your clock and make a poor move than blame the clock entirely. Poor moves with time on the clock can be fixed because you're correcting your faulty decision-making process.

"I clicked my mouse faster than the other guy that also has no idea what they're doing, I got rating points from it in bullet"... that's not real chess improvement, and your rating will quickly start to flatline as you start playing folks with better real chess skill.

It is OK to not be good in the beginning, but can only be fixed by being honest with your play and fixing issues. To improve, you have to attack where you're weak, and bullet doesn't allow you to do that.

As my coach @lance5500 said: slow time controls for improvement, fast time controls for fun.

Of course, it is up to you what you want to do and what you enjoy, and if you truly want to improve.

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