Improving in other time controls other than bullet

My bullet rating is currently 1300, much higher than my rapid and blitz (although if I played more I know I could get it up a bit). Any advice on improving in other time formats, and are there any pitfalls I should look out for?

#1
Skills transfer from the slower time control to the faster. Chose a relatively slow time control like 15|10. Start at 40 seconds / move and finish at 10 seconds / move. Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it. The main pitfall is playing too fast and too superficial. Take time to think. When you see a good move, look for a better one. Sit on your hands.

currently i only play bullet to improve my blitz and rapid skills

The most important thing is to find logical, strong moves that your opponent can make. You have to think, "if I was my opponent, what is annoying me?" this may help you find a plan to annoy your opponent. 

"If I was my opponent, what kind of plan would I want to make?" Does he want to open the center? Mobilize his forces on the queenside? Roll a pawn storm on the kingside? 

Maybe you can't predict what he will do. But when he makes a move, you have to be able to think, "this move does x. This means his plan is to do Y." Then you can think of ways to counter it.

From what I've seen from volunteering to help U1000s otb, they aren't able to consider their opponent's moves. 

#5
90|30 is better but strains the eyes online.

You played 1800 bullet games and about 200 rapid games...

Maybe play like 300 rapid games in the coming months and lay off the bullet and you will obviously improve?

simple 

oh also I really like the format 30+0 and 30+20... It connects you with the beauty of chess more than stupid superficial and just wrong thoughts that fill your mind when you play blitz and bullet... Of course then you face the biggest demon of "concentration" in a 30+0 game... you gotta face it though and it will ultimately improve your bullet too... 

This is defiantly true, I often play bullet because its much easier to fit in a ton of games of bullet on a bus ride, and not have to worry about quitting mid way through. But defiantly this advice is very good. I have super bad ADHD and that is probably why i play so much bullet; its a great quick dopamine fix. Speaking of dopamine sick name Keep that narcan with u brodie lmao. 

i tend to spend more time on the opening & early middlegame... it's much easier to play a good position than try to turn around a bad one.  blunder-check & calculate every move rather than playing by intuition.

suggest daily 3, 6, 12 or 24 hrs/move to start with this more concrete style of playing... flag the 'avoid time outs' custom daily game option to make it a 'no vacation' game (i think).

you can play lots of daily games at once!     🙂

Tygxc said to play “slower” time controls, not “slow” time controls. Sometimes I feel like 15/10 is too fast while 25/5 is too slow… and 90 d/5 is faster than 15/10. But none of it really matters, since most people are casually playing and 15|10 is sufficient time for them to improve on one thing at a time.

While it is good for amateur players to mimic professionals to get better, it should be done in moderation. For example, you wouldn’t expect an amateur swimmer to wake up at 5am every day to do laps around the pool for two hours like Michael Phelps.

What I like about this advice is it can apply to 1000s but also more experienced players, so it's advice that can grow with the player.

New players often ignore their opponent's half of the board, and only look at what their pieces can do. Broadly speaking, you could successfully predict the ranking of a group of lower rated players purely on how often they consider where their opponent can move.

For more experienced players this is also useful, but like B1Z is saying you tend to think in terms of plans. If you know your opponent's best plan is to maneuver their knight to a certain square, then that gives you a framework to build up what your best plan(s) will be.

Slow is relative.

IMO games around 30|0 and 15|10 are good practice time controls.

The problem with 90+30 is you can't play very many of them. Long tournaments are like the final exam. Practice games (and then analyzing them) are like homework or something

Technically, since it's classified as rapid, which is a synonym for "quick"... Rapid is speed chess. 

Yes, but they're still classified the same way. A game of 15|10 simply can't compare to 30|0, much less 90|30. Compared to the standard FIDE time control, 40 moves 90+30 minutes, SD 30+30, there is no difference between 10+0 and 15+10.

Doesn't really matter what they're called does it?

We all understand 30|0 is twice as long as 15|0 and only half as long as 60|0.

Long time controls are good, but the problem is you can't play many of them in a day.

For me, I believe playing an hour of blitz, followed by an hour of analyzing would be better than playing a single G/60

But like I was saying, that's just the homework. To figure out whether you're actually learning you should eventually take an exam (i.e. game as long as a tournament game).

That's just how I see it.

The point is not whether or not 15|10 is fine or not, the point was that 15|10 is classified as speed chess. By definition, it is speed chess, just very slow speed chess. 

You could call 30|0 very fast classical.

Personally I think analysis of online games should take twice as long as it took to play them, while analyzing longer games should take around the same amount of time it took to play them. Otherwise it's not really "analysis".

I really don't think you can truly analyze a blitz game in 6 minutes.

That's true.

And that's what's great about OTB tournament games. Sometimes you'll play an opponent a few times over a few months who is good at something you're not. And that experience shows you what you're lacking, and then you can improve.

I agree with that. Twice as long sounds about right.

For some people, there is a lot of joy in the process of failing to figure something out for 3, 4, 5 hours straight, and then finally getting it in the 6th hour.

There are various things in life that can provide this kind of experience. Chess is one of them.