ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:
I found the Chess Life article.
Black's best is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6? 3.Nxe5 Qe7 4.Nf3 Qxe4+ 5.Be2
In the game, black missed the best defense of 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6? 3.Nxe5 fxe5? 4.Qh5+ Ke7 5.Qxe5+ Kf7 6.Bc4+ d5!
Also in the game, white missed the best continuation of 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Nxe5 fxe5? 4.Qh5+ Ke7 5.Qxe5+ Kf7 6.Bc4+ Kg6? 7.Qf5+ Kh6 8.h4!, instead playing 8.d3+ g5 9.h4 which presumably leaves black with some defense after Qe7 or Qe8, both of which protect the weak f7 square. So 10.hxg5+ Kg7, and black is not yet mated and is still up a piece.
It's probably bad form to quote your own post, but shouldn't there be at least a semblance of staying on topic, every few posts or so? :-)
I used to have ~130 games going at the same time. It really is a simul. I had the setting so "next" got me to the next available game. Most of the time, I spent about five seconds per move. Every once in awhile, I wanted to calculate a little bit, especially if the opponent's rating was higher. Sometimes I played quickly against a 1200-1300, only to find out this was one of their first games on the site, and they mopped me up pretty good.
I still kept my time per move about 2 hours. If I just didn't care about time per move, and if I were (for example) a student with lots of spare time, then I just don't think that 1000, or 2000 games would be impossible at all.