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Bullet chess is a very fast game of chess where each side only has less than 3 minutes to complete all of their moves. The Internet Chess Club (ICC) definition [1] of bullet chess is any game where The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet site devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ...

Time + (2/3)Increment < 3.
  • Time is the initial time setting for each clock (in minutes).
  • Increment is the time regained on the clock per move (in seconds).

Bullet chess is even faster and more hectic than blitz chess. The bullet in bullet chess refers to the fast speed of a bullet. Often bullet chess is so fast that tactics and skill are secondary to quick moves. Under USCF rules bullet games are considered blitz. Blitz chess (also known as speed chess or blitzkrieg chess) is a game of chess where each side is given very little time to make all of their moves. ... 0. ... The United States Chess Federation (USCF) is the governing chess organization within the United States and is one of the federations of the FIDE. The USCF was founded in 1939 and grew gradually until 1972, when membership doubled due to interest in Bobby Fischers rise to the World Championship. ...


On ICC, the four time reigning bullet chess champion and bullet rating record holder is Hawkeye, but he is often overshadowed by the emerging superstar Hikaru Nakamura (AKA Smallville on ICC), who holds the "1-minute" (a special category on ICC where opponents are randomly paired, thus improving rating accuracy) and blitz rating records. Hawkeye recommends using an optical mouse and taking breaks to avoid hand injury. Hikaru Nakamura Hikaru Nakamura, (中村光 Nakamura Hikaru, born December 9, 1987) is an American chess Grandmaster (GM). ... Two wireless computer mice, with scroll wheels A mouse is a handheld pointing device for computers, involving a small object fitted with one or more buttons and shaped to sit naturally under the hand. ...


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