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28th June 2008, 02:33am
#1
by Stendido
Rayong Philippines
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 151

If you play bunch of games at once, does it decrease your trail of thought, and downgrade the original play of your other games?

28th June 2008, 02:37am
#2
by littleman
Taree Australia
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 1609
For some yes for others not so much. I personaly dont like to play to many as i find my chess gets worse. I limit my self to about 10-40 games max included in all sites. Im not sure so much that it affects everyone the same way....Cool
28th June 2008, 02:42am
#3
by Stendido
Rayong Philippines
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 151
It effects me, that's why I posted this topic. I want to see what the majority of CHESS.COM says. I'm positive that it affects practically everyone.
6th August 2008, 01:09pm
#4
by nickel1356
pittsburgh, pa United States
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 6185

it depends on the time/day you have available... in my case 10 games is about right, over 20 (in progress at a time ) my interest, quality of play etc. all go DOWN.

22nd October 2008, 06:33am
#5
by AWARDCHESS
Los Angeles United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 45380

It is a good Chess drill to play a lot of games at once, if you really want to improve!

Total: 2487
Won: 1553 (62%)
Lost: 754 (30%)
Drawn: 180 (7%)
Unrated: 163
In Progress: 1082

Moves
Timeouts: 0 (0%)
Avg./game: 27
Time/move:

3 hrs 39 mins

 

 

22nd October 2008, 06:45am
#6
by excelguru
Calhoun, GA (GMT -5) United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 319

Jesus Christ, are you kidding me? One thousand eighty two games??? And to think that I freaked out when I hit 30 games. My limit is around 10-15.

But maybe I'm missing something. Your rating IS a lot higher than mine... hmm...

22nd October 2008, 07:02am
#7
by Waldhari
Montréal Canada
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 24

1082 games is kinda crazy if you ask me!

22nd October 2008, 07:06am
#8
by Stendido
Rayong Philippines
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 151

Lol, what happened to the original topic? If you play alot of games does it decrease your performance?

22nd October 2008, 07:14am
#9
by littleman
Taree Australia
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 1609

I think it does actually. Because to play serious chess u have to take time to think on it,more then 5 mins per game,and to write down notes during the game to go over later. So if u have alot of games its going to take along time to get through them without timing out. Thats my view anyway....Cool

22nd October 2008, 07:17am
#10
by Stendido
Rayong Philippines
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 151

All I'm asking for is your view thanks :).

22nd October 2008, 09:02am
#11
by mowque
PA United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 341

My performance? honestly probably not, since i don't invest much time in my games.

22nd October 2008, 10:31am
#12
by AWARDCHESS
Los Angeles United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 45380

Chess Overloading Increased my Performance, for sure!

The more Chess Lessons you got, the more you can gain! Get your Chess Highest Degree!

22nd October 2008, 10:40am
#13
by Baseballfan
Durham, North Carolina United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1872

For me, it's bad. More than 20-30 games at once, my performance drops (and it's already pretty bad to begin with).

22nd October 2008, 10:55am
#14
by Dutchgalego
Leeuwarden Netherlands
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 774

My perfomance drops any time I do play more than 30 games at once.

But I do agree that some people don't experience any problems with it.

It's a question of balance.

22nd October 2008, 10:57am
#15
by Azures
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 71

It diminishes my game.  I don't even like to play more than 3 games at once.  For me, playing a game of chess is like reading a book.  I become engrossed in the story and look forward to the denouement...

22nd October 2008, 11:02am
#16
by eagletim
Belper, Derbyshire United Kingdom
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 441

To many games must reduce the quality of the gameplay. But it really depends on how much playing time that you have available.

22nd October 2008, 11:04am
#17
by NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
Gotham United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 8179

Playing many games at once decreases the overall quality per game while increasing the playing strength of the player. Paul Keres was famous for this - he played 200+ correspondence games at one time when he was a boy, and later credited this for his vast opening knowledge.

So I think the answer is a "yes and no" type of answer.

22nd October 2008, 11:07am
#18
by AWARDCHESS
Los Angeles United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 45380

It is a really hard experience, to play a ton of my games!

 But I self-trained all my life to broaden and deepen my abilities at the difference spheres to think and act, like a Winner, at the critical conditions...

If you are not ready to survive and succeed, it can be a really hard time to hold oneself up in own life, if the real hard time can catch us, suddenly and instantly!

 My point is that you have to break off  of your comfortable conditions to be really know oneself!

Get up!

22nd October 2008, 11:08am
#19
by Puydtje
Merelbeke Belgium
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 334

I like to play 50 games at the same times. It is many but I like it. But more is difficult.

When I play 50 games at once I always use my notes. When you have a strategy you can write it in the notes and then you don't have the problem that you forgot you're strategy.

22nd October 2008, 11:13am
#20
by spaceh0pper
Belfast Ireland
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 1

I guess you guys aren't talking about live chess :P

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