1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 d6 4. Nf3 Nfd7 5. e4 Be7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O Re8 8. Be3 Nf8

@hyperchessbotauthor #6. You fail to see an advantage? Let me help you... 1....Nbd7. 2.c5!! GG.

Not quite sure where fast chess will lead you

You have to play a lot of classical chess to be able to play bullet well.

FYI my strongest time control historically is rapid ( 10 + 0 ), my usual percentile on chess sites in rapid is >99%, I just don't have the patience for it any more, may be in rapid I would not play like 1. c3

#14
If black can play 1 e4 c6 or 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6, then white can surely play 1 c3 in rapid and classical.

#1
Is the knight really better at f8 than at f6? Is it worth 2 moves to put it at f8?
Is the other knight better at b8 than at f6? If not, is then Nb8-d7-f8 not a better use of two tempi?

1. c3 can be played, but not for an advantage, may be in rapid you can play for an objective advantage

knight is better on f6, but more difficult to crack up in short time if it is on f8 ( knight on f6 is subject to all kind of pins, can be attacked by a pawn, even taken by the rook if f file opens up )

To reply on the side remark:
There may be less bullet players, but im almost sure they play more games. As such the number of bullet games is probably higher than that of other time controls. (And in general, the shorter the time control, the more games I would expect per player).

One challenge I would like to lay to the starter of this thread:
Sure, perhaps you manage to limit the damage or perhaps it is not easy to exploit the opening. But what do you gain? Actually, the opponent just played normal moves, and was almost using the same (small) amount of time in the opening as you, so it did not really give you a time advantage.

The time difference mainly started to grow in the mid game. (Of course you may still argue that you consistenly get into a midgame of the same structure, and thus can play it faster, but I don't know if that was your point).

opening you can play fast with white, develop pieces the natural way, there is not much to think about that, but in the middle game white has to come up with a plan how to crack black's hedgehog position and this is where white starts to think, it is psychologically difficult situation when you know you have advantage, you start looking for an immediate way to convert this to some material gain or mate, and there is no immediate way, this makes you frustrated, you start to think even harder and when you realize that you are running out of time without forced victory in sight it is too late

You should be focusing on classical and rapid and not hyperbullet, like me !

please don't send me flowers, don't do that after this game