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What is the point of playing bullet games?!

I am pretty much aware that most of the players here play and like to play bullet games. Even I play bullet occasionally.
One titled player said it very beautifully to my taste; strong players and titled player play bullet to have an excuse if they loose a game. That was a bullet game so who cares. Of course there are some advantages of playing bullet, you can test quickly your opening repertoire, you practice your concentration and focus which is good. People play bullet because they want to play as many games as possible and some are even addicted :). I understand all of that. I see many people watch top world players playing bullet games and I have an impression that this is for entertaining purpose only. top bullet games here have almost no educational value whatsoever. Some say that playing bullet can ruin your chess. What is your opinion on this?
My intuition has improved significantly because of bullet chess. Bullet activates a new part of your brain. Calculation is not everything in chess.
bullet/ultra is only chess i play, i am addicted to hyper so it has to do with that as well. why i chose hyper in the first place? because it's simply more fun to me, and risky, and adventurous. bullet chess is not only mind sport but rather physical too cause you need extremely good mouse skills and very accurate premoves (some may argue its cybersport cause of that). bullet is like russian roulette, everything can happen, innacuracies turn to good moves, mistakes turn to innacuracies and blunders turn to mistakes and vice versa cause game direction and who is doing better can be changed at every moment, you can lose your queen for silly premove, you may get lefonged, or even mated being 12 plus in material. also, flag, especially in hyper, is as important as position, and evaluation is very provisional because everything is expected. also i've annihilated players in hyper that i have not tiny chance against in slower controls. all this makes bullet way more enjoyable to me than rapid/blitz. and my speediness def compensates for positional weakness. tbh, even if i was strong player, i'd prefer being some 3200 hyper on lichess guy than superGM with 2750 classical elo.

here's peng speaking truth.

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@Sarg0n get what you say but you can just apply "quality move" term to move in bullet that applies to bullet standarts. for example, when 1-2 secs left, checkgiving move by queen even if it blunders her may be called quality move. what you call quality move is only quality move in slow time controls as in lots of cases it may make you lose on flag. practicality and winning result makes for quality.
Exactly. Blundering but being quick is the new quality.
executing the tactical ideas in lightning speed
bullet does improve your overall chess level
there is something about looking at the board, and immediately having an idea of what you might play.
Bullet game = so you can play hope chess without really thinking or taking it too seriously.

N if you lose it's more of a "Just for fun" thing so your ego is safe.

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