Am I getting better or luck?

Okay so for the past 1 month I've been playing about 50-100 bullet games daily - just for fun. I've also had the initiave to hopefully improve - but the most important factor for me was to have fun.

I was wondering now if this last game I played was any good? I was/am so terrible at bullet games and I just wish to have even more fun with it as I improve and hopefully can even win against people with mates instead of flagging.

I know this game was pretty badly blundered from my opponent but I think I managed to play my opening quite well - atleast I think so; what's your opinion?

http://da.lichess.org/UomkrgROC9BX

Thank you very much - I would love any, any feedback whatsoever! I am quite bad at my end games too so..

qe7 was nice. Kudos for seeing that in bullet

@Banteronly987 #1

"improve" and "bullet chess" are an oxymoron to me.

If you really want to improve in chess, then you need to play mostly slow time control chess, and study, train, analyse, share, test etc.

Bullet chess is "casino chess" to me, it is a gambling game, often filled with premove madness and silly tricks.

Results and ratings of bullet chess are not to be taken serious, chess wise speaking.

Forget about bullet chess, and get a decent chess skills level first.
If you really cannot live without bullet chess, then only play little and just for fun, and try to give little chess skill value.

Good luck !

I think in order for a game to be good both players have to played at least somewhat well. In that game your opponent was hanging large amounts of material before the 10th move so that's pretty much never going to be a good game.

But that's also completely typical for bullet. A friend who is a strong GM once told/chastised me that you should never really spend more time studying a game than was spent playing it. I thought that was a pretty clever way of phrasing the value of bullet and blitz!

I ask the leaders to do the simultaneous translation of the submitted blogs. I don't know how to use them.

First of all, thank you each and every one of you for your response.

#2 Thanks! I've come across these positions before and when I saw it, I went for it! Backrow mates are one of the best :D

#3 I think you explained that beautifully. However, while what you said is definetly true - I seek to improve in time controlled games hence why I am playing bullet games mainly. I for now do not seek as such, to improve in normal/standard chess games as I find these less entertaining - not to mention I've never played an OTB tournament or anything like that as I learned how to play chess about a year ago on Lichess.

#4 This is true. I did notice the mistakes made by my opponent and thus can not be deemed fairly in terms of skill and so on. But then again, as you mention, these are bullet games and mistakes like these do happen.

#5 What?

I think an important point #3 was alluding to, as was I, is that the best way to improve at bullet is to improve at normal chess. If you take any strong player, they're almost always going to be also going to be strong at bullet and blitz and fischer random and basically any form of chess played by the same rules. I've played less bullet games in my life than you play in a week, yet I am still going to be a decent bullet player.

However, the reverse isn't necessarily true. You take a strong bullet player and they may be terrible at chess, but good at flagging. And there's a lot of more information available on how to improve at chess than there is on how to improve at flagging. In any case I think you'd find improving at the game itself more rewarding. It's nice to be able to play in any situation and not just one with a non-increment 'x' seconds left on the clock.

@OhNoMyPants #7

Very nicely put. Excellent. Thanks for sharing.