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Does bullet improve tactical vision?

I noticed my rapid and blitz ratings improve rather then slump after playing bullet for several months.
When I play 3 or slower minutes, I see more short term tactics as opposed to long term positional ideals.
But this has still not deterred my ratings. I am almost 2200 in rapid. My highest rating yet.
According to the book- Rapid Chess Improvement by De La Maza, tactics can bring a player up to expert level.
I have studied chess for decades and I noticed that my knowledge increased with books about strategic and positional concepts, but tactics always gets my overall rating to increase.
No, in bullet you just move, but in rapid or classical, you have much more time to think!
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Well, you do learn a lot of patterns in bullet quicker. I notice an improvement in my game after I play a computer.
As long as the opponent is stronger, one can learn from a loss, and remember the patterns.
@Grecchi80 When you actually want to improve rapid and classical are best some people take decisions too early in rapid and classical that makes the game completely trouble for them and in bullet there is not sufficient time to think for variations and difficult tactics
Like I said...I play mostly bullet. When I do play rapid, I gain rating points.
How is that? It's because I am able to see tactical patterns quicker.
I can post a game I played recently in rapid, where I won in just a few moves against a 2100+ player.
What my points is...again...is that speed games force one to play tactics.
Tactics win games. Period.
The only thing bullet improves is the flagging technique. Just my opinion.

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