Add ultrabullet rating category

[full plover]

Hella mfers wasting their life staying up all night not studying for exams to grind 10 second chess to get 3000 bullet, ts cringe and promoting brainrot fr fr

[glacial marsh]

^

[hallow rain]

They're working on a hyperbullet and a classical time control

[full plover]

Fr we do not care at all that your 3000 came from 10 sec chess dawg

Ts rotting the community

[glacial marsh]

@gloomy locust @green arrow what's the reason for reacting with 💔

I feel like it's a fair point since the nature of playing a 10 second game is completely different than playing a 1 minute game. One is still fast, but the other is so fast that you're simply premoving the whole time. And premove tricks/sacking pieces randomly so you break your opponents premoves matter much more in 1 time format than the other. If there's such a big difference in how it feels to play these 2 different time controls, why not make them seperate categories

[cosmic sandal]

Both bullet and hyperbullet are a joke

[gloomy locust]

On lichess, the hyperbullet rating is all kinds of weird. Very few people play it.

It's a slightly different skillset, but not much.

I reacted because I don't think chess.com should invest into a hyperbullet (nor a classical, although that has a much better case) rating.

[full plover]

Hyperbullet def is pretty similar just a bit heavier on the speed but 15 sec and less is def very different

I def do agree that hyperbullet rating would be kinda pointless

[glacial marsh]

its arguable the difference between a 5 minute "blitz" game and a 10 minute "rapid" game is magnitudes smaller than the difference between a 10 second hyperbullet game and a 1 minute standard bullet game

[glacial marsh]

I would hard disagree that a 10 second hypergame is a "slightly different skillset, but not much". Like a 1 minute game is fast, but you can at least make moves and be able to process what's happening. But 10 second games, with all the much more premove tricks, and simply making any legal move possible where its not just intuition, but your hand sending any move, makes it a much different league. They dont feel similar at all.

It feels more advisable to have another "ultrabullet" rating category even if relatively less people play it than to group 2 "time controls" together that are completely different

Like there's no way this type of game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuaXYLBDTio (just a random Hikaru bullet video)

is nearly the same enough as the second video that they should be in the same categories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYwSV5RB5kU

[frigid steppe]

they should have a rating for 10 sec, its funny

[teal cosmos]

i love chess.com

[rotund garnet]

yay! classical time control is coming

there would be a lot of cheaters though

[gloomy locust]

You think? The typical cheater is a little kid. Do they really have the attention span to sit an hour or two for a game?

[rotund garnet]

if your cheating the game will last a lot less than the actual time given but yeah, not like stockfish would need the time

[gloomy locust]

Even the cheater premoves every move, their opponent will take a lot of time. In a 90+30 game, it's not unusual to take more than 10 minutes per move in critical positions.

[copper whale]

it should be called "lightspeed"

[rotund garnet]

i dont understand how people play bullet otb

[frigid steppe]

they dont

[brazen sky]

how did you think ppl play bullet otb

[rotund garnet]

they dont

[frigid steppe]

people sometimes play 1|1 otb for fun but never rlly 1|0

[glacial marsh]

Average OTB bullet game: (pieces dropping every 2 seconds)

[full plover]

Bro flatten the board a lil more probably won't be as messed up lol

[full plover]

I mean play high quality without being sloppy is very hard but since it's that way for both players thats kinda the fun

Some people can be pretty fast with their arms

[calm sorrel]

I played some 1v5 min odds, that was pretty much my experience 😭

[wheat portal]

make hitting the clock without all of the pieces on squares an auto loss and it won’t happen as much

[full plover]

In tournaments at least you're allowed to hit the clock back and tell your opponent to adjust their pieces iirc