Not being for a long time member of Chess.com, I noticed people playing enormous number of games simultaneosly. The question is : Where is the limit? Can they keep same quality of play in every game? Should administration forbid playing too many games in the same time? Sincerely, it does not look serious to me!

Right now I'm in 2 tournaments. All my tournament games on top of random games, I have about 21 games going all at once. Right now I'm in the openings where my territory is still fairly familiar. We'll see what happens when I get to the mid game where things start getting messy and require lots of thinking.

I find 10 to 15 my maximum for good quality, but usually have 5 - 10 on the go.

I think players with many games (over 50, but I've seen someone with maybe 100) like to train their ability to quickly judge positions. I don't think it's a great idea though, I can't see them having time to review their losses.Also I think they always like to have moves to make in gamesm and let other people do the waiting.

Often it annoys me when I'm up against one of these players in tournament game, it drags on and is often the reason for a tournament round taking months and months.

 

I would like to see some quota system, but doubt anything like it will happen. Common courtesy should make some of these players show some restraint

An upper limit sounds reasonable to me. Just to help keep the site moving quickly. But the limit should be something that someone with lots of time on their hands can handle. Say 100 games. Thousands of games going at one time isn't very reasonable. More likely someone goofing around seeing how many games they can get going.

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http://www.chess.com/echess/profile/ANIKO

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 I agree with each and every of your words. Concerning courtesy, good maners and respect, I wrote a forum for it!!!!

That victormpm  guy is playing 340+ games...

That's what I call dedication.

And I think he'll win every one of those...

Under 20 for me is the best, anything over 20 and my rating begins to fall. :(

Well ANIKO once had 3500 games going at once. I play around 15 games.

2.  One with each hand. 

 

Other wise, it is more a serial thing than a simultaneous thing, really.

If they wanna play 1000s of games let em. As long as they have the time they should be fine.

I usually play 10-15 games at a time.

But you've over laped a bit om 19.

Sure anyone is permitted to keep going as many games as they like but I think the original poster was contemplating how many are possible if you want to play well and improve. Some of the abovementioned players have a huge amount of games going but their win percentage is rather low. If they aim for quantity over quality it´s fine but I think it´s worthwhile to ponder how many you can manage while actually concentrating. It´s a good question to which everyone has to find his/her own answer since the style and capacity of thinking varies so much from person to person.

Invariably, you will find that the right [number of games/time per move/vacation usage/inclination to resign/use of databases] at chess.com is whatever exactly matches that of the poster.  Anything else is [cheating/disrespectful/cheating/ignorant/rude/cheating], and should be disallowed.

I don't think there should be a limit. As long as you hold up your end there shouldn't be a problem. But if something comes up and you lose 100 games then your rating will fall faster than MTV ratings. - thank you, I'll be here all week - you're a great audience really you are.

I had close to 100 games going at one one time on another site, now just 12 feels much better..

I find 12 to 15  games is fine, but when I accept to be a greeter I will go to 15 to 18 games, just to have some games to play everyday.

In the summer I reduce to 5 as I play golf, mow the lawn on a one acre property and do other chores outside, like build a new 12x12 deck this year with a 10x12 awning.