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These only tend to work when your opponent has less than 10 seconds

The psycho desperado:

Make a move that checks the opponent's king, even if it's an awful moves that gives away your queen or something. The opponent who will be relying on premove will lose time once they realize their premove doesn't work (since it didn't account for the check) and they'll lose a few seconds responding.

Highway through the dangerzone:

See a square you would love to get one of your pieces to? Only problem is that the only way to get it there is to first move it en prise? Do it anyway. 50% of the time your opponent will assume you know what you're doing and not even realize they can capture it, then it gets to where you want it to go on the next move.

Short-on-time man's bluff:

Sort of a combination of the above two. Make a crazy looking move that involves a threat, even if it hangs a piece. Make it sort of look like a sacrifice even if you don't bother calculating anything. Worst case scenario, your opponent will spend a bit of time figuring out if he can take the piece before taking it. Best case scenario, they won't take it and you'll get to carry out your threat.

The self-playing mate:

In a winning endgame but have no time to actually form a thought before moving? Premove your passed pawns until you have a rook and queen or two queens, then premove the staircase mate pattern - it requires no thinking time whatsoever.



Zerk against lower rated opponents, take them seriously (almost lost points).

If you have no tricks that you can think of, (cue Christmas music)

Jingle bells, really sucks, Premove all the way.... oh what fun it is to troll your opponent and see what happens here...
u can be the cat or the rat, winning as the rat isnt that satisfying but u need to know what are u playing for. rating or hardly earned rating, with the right mind fortitude u can get +300 by playing lower rated players. just know what u r playing for tricks come along the way
imo its mainly cs bullet pulls your otb rather down; u avoid thinking deep in bullet (not good habit for otb players and u cant simply be like let me just hit the switch) for instance and one of bullet highlights is cheapos before u notice it, u will stop playing for perfect play but for play that lets your opponent make mistakes which gonna lead to u playing against a solid player otb who doesnt fall for this strategy and leave u in a worse position but hey, theres always people who are exceptions so maybe ur one of them idk

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