Why is playing bullet so difficult for me? Or am I not the only one? I struggle to maintain ~1600 rank, especially a little tired and with the 2+1 time (which, for some reason, seems to be more difficult than 1+0)
My classical rating is over 2000 and on THAT time control I see 1800+ opponents missing that their piece is hanging or blundering games into two-move combinations. Then these 1400 heroes punish my every mistake on bullet with 1 second of thinking.
I just don't understand...
Bullet rating is more to do about how strong our internet connection is and less about how strong your chess is. Sometimes I lose like 2-3 seconds when I am premoving moves.
Bullet isn't real chess, it rewards playing poorly and punishes playing properly
It is like a tennis player complaining he is weak at ping pong.
I'm also about FIDE 2080 in OTB classical Chess (across very many actual FIDE Tournaments) and am also very close to being a patzer in Blitz/Bullet and not ever above 1600 either. I just dunno here. Actually I do like Blitz/Bullet too, as it just suits a very casual game very completely. 10 minutes for a small Chess encounter
In Classical with an hour or-so to think, it's actually so very quite easy to imagine scenarios that will just win versus any 1900+. Or even 2000+. Not so hard, really. 2200+ is always very different though. I would imagine that 2200 might think the very same about level say 2400 too. Always the next obstacle to encounter. Nobody ever gets a free ride. Maybe 2600 also feels the same about 2800+ as well
Long term plans or maneuvering ideas or basic principles of Chess etc. The time-pressure element is pretty funny here though. So many Chess players do like this added pressure, many don't. I actually do like the buzz and adrenaline rush of forcing a move decision every 10 seconds or-so, but just seemingly very poor at this time-format.
I do not know why. Have literally no idea why my own game collapses so very fast, whenever the time controls get nasty. I would guess that some players just need to think a bit longer to recognize actual danger. I do love Blitz/Bullet myself, am not good at it, but still play it ...because it's quick-and-easy fun.
You can either avoid it or else play it and just accept the enormous ELO/Glicko ratings hit. Not everyone can play all variants of Chess at the very same level. You seemingly can't. Me too here. I do love the fast nature of Blitz and I suspect the same from you too. You like the buzz, but maybe cannot perform at the same level of play. Then either avoid this Chess time format or else accept it's flaws and obvious drawbacks, the main one being the inability to deep-think a particular position.
For example, with some open files and Rooks at a1 and f1, you do need to really think about Rook to d1 or else e1 and just which Rook to deploy there. Maybe one Rook move gives a huge advantage, the other 3 not so clear. In Blitz/Bullet, you instead move mostly intuitively, which can be great but equally can be anything bar great. I do tend to semi-impulsively play the worst possible Rook move in these fast-acting time formats and then slowly live to regret it. Maybe you too. Just completely different Chess disciplines though.
It is called pressure. You are weak under pressure.