Having just one minute to play your entire chess match isn’t conducive to precise play, and it’s rightfully seen as a brain-rotting pastime. But what if I told you the work on my “serious” chess in 2024 crystallized in a massive bullet rating boost—and nothing else whatsoever?
An exercise in graphology
Chess improvement is meant to be a slow and steady process, one of incremental gains and growing understanding, with the feeling that you’re finally uncovering new knowledge after long sessions of calculation and analysis, reaping the rewards in the form of a handful of rating points after a while.
