Simon, your attacking instincts are your engine
Looking at your recent bullet games, the pattern is clear. When you get to attack, you are genuinely dangerous. In your win with the black pieces against gfgvgjdig, you punished an opponent whose king got stuck in the middle of the board. You kept finding checks, opened lines, and finished with a rook and queen working together. That is not luck, that is real tactics awareness.
Your win with black shows what happens when you keep pieces active and hunt the king. That skill is worth protecting.
Fix one thing first: the vulnerable f7 square
Your quickest loss of the batch is the one you will learn the most from. Your opponent played the bishop out early and brought the queen to the h file, and you developed a knight instead of covering the f7 square. Mate arrived in four moves. This is the classic Scholar's Mate pattern, and at your rating it appears constantly in bullet.
See it here: the four move loss.
One rule will save you many rating points. Whenever the enemy queen or bishop swings toward your king side, pause for a half second and ask which square they are aiming at. Against the early queen and bishop setup, playing the blocking pawn move on the g file or simply developing the knight to f6 only after the queen is not threatening works far better than rushing.
Second fix: stop sending developed knights home
Two of your losses show the same habit. A knight goes out to f6, then a pawn push from your opponent makes you nervous, and the knight retreats all the way back to g8. That undoes your development and lets your opponent gain space for free while your pieces sit on their starting squares.
In this [[Link loss]], the retreat let your opponent roll forward, win material, and finish with a rook lifting into your position. In the Giuoco Piano game against backgammonbarbosa, the same early retreat cost you tempo and you were soon under pressure.
Instead of retreating, look for the counter in the centre. A pawn push in the middle, or developing the other bishop with a check, usually relieves the pressure better than pulling the knight backwards. A developed piece that comes back home is basically a free move gifted to your opponent.
Third fix: keep the same energy in the endgame
Your win against snehapawarr is a great model for bullet. You lost a knight early in a messy opening, then stayed calm, activated your rook, grabbed pawns, and pushed your own pawns forward with your king leading the way. You won on time, but you had already built a completely winning endgame before the clock decided it.
Review it here: the long grind.
That resilience is a real strength. Combine it with the two fixes above and those messy openings become comfortable positions you convert.
A simple practice plan
- Before every move in the first six moves, ask whether your king side squares are covered. Especially the one next to the king.
- When a pawn push attacks your knight, look at three options in order: capture something, counter in the centre, then retreat. Retreating last, not first.
- Your best scoring opening is the Scotch Game, where you win more than you lose. Lean on it. Your Blackburne Shilling Gambit results are much weaker, because that line depends on your opponent falling into a trap rather than on your own play.
- In bullet, protect your pre-moves on defence only. Pre-moving a defensive move when your opponent is attacking is where most of your quick losses come from.
- Play a few longer games each week to build king safety habits that then carry over to your one minute games.
You are climbing fast and your attacking play is already a weapon. Tighten up the opening safety and you will keep that climb going.