I just looked at the profile of a player that is involved in the last game of a round of a tourney I am playing in. My jaw dropped when I saw that he has 270 games in progress!!!

I am happy that I dropped my count to 5 for the time being as I felt getting more and more pressured once my total was around 15 games at a time. Should there be a limit instituted how many games someone can play at the same time? This cannot be healthy - both for the quality of the games and the player that spends an enormous amount of time in front of the PC. What do you think?

The player that has that many games either has alot of time on his/her hands,lives alone,and no other commits;or has 7,10, or 14 day moves.

Should we suspect the people with hundreds of games of using a computer to choose their moves? Perhaps they can't play chess at all!

That's not a possibility. If you use a computer you can do better than 1800, besides I watched a bit his game against the 1400 player. He lost the first one and will escape with a win from a lost position.

I agree, I doubt there is a girl friend close by :o) and no his games are mainly 3 days/move.

Speaking of addiction, I present exhibit A: Member - Haddad56.

He has a rating of 1959 with, get this, 708 games in progress currently!

Genius with a chess addiction, right?  Anybody find somebody with more?

There was someone who had thousands.  She backed off though ANIKO or something.

I can barely cope with 15.

I agree..Beside no problem when you play 3, 5 or 7 days online chess games..you have the time to think..may be you will find alot of start positions the same in many games..

I dunno.  I should be working, but instead I'm here, posting.

If I don't keep it in check (pun sorry lol) I'd go broke!

ha ha.. you know what, CHESS is just beautiful, when you learn it from within..

There's a post on here somewhere, saw it yesterday, the guy was playing over 1000 games.  Decent win ratio to go with it. 

I'm sure he's a good player but that has got to affect the judgement.  Doesn't work for me.  I'm happy with 5-10 CC games and a couple of standard live games each day. 

Let's call it chess therapy folks, bit like watching the guppies in the fishtank when your real life becomes a world of sharks left behind in last flood! Lol... safer waters! If he has time for 200 + games then good luck to him! Time spent having fun is NOT time wasted, so maybe the rest of the us are a little jealous, I already have my retirement planned, 300 games here I come!