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What does it take to get better...?

At Bullet Chess? What has worked best for you before any of your major lasting improvements ?
Solve tactics puzzles and play a lot of games to get the pattern recognition rolling. It's totally worth it, all the chicks love guys with high bullet ratings (just try mentioning it in a club).
1) Small table, low mouse sense + no acceleration
2) SAFE PRE-MOVES
3) If you can't execute it don't play tactical stuff. You will lose time or pieces.
A common mistake in bullet is to start to think...
I'm often terrible at bullet. I did find improvement (though slight) from playing a single, safe opening that I was confident with. It helps when you can easily throw out your first 8-12 moves without hardly thinking about them.

I find that most solid bullet players have a thorough knowledge of whichever opening they play. They gain advantage over lesser opponents out of the opening, which allows for quick tactics. Your goal should be to find those tactics and prevent them with your opening and to exploit them when an opponent gives you the opportunity.

Basically, it takes a lot of repetition and memorization of patterns.

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