Am I crazy?
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I played 120 bullet games on ICC, took about 5 hours, I started with winning streaks
(6-7 won games in a row) then 4 hours in I lost 11 games in a row but ended strong with 4 losses in 20 games! It was fun but really tiring.. I think I'm crazy for playing so much!
Whatdo you guys think? Has anyone here played more then me in one sitting?
Awardchess, probably
He was definitely crazy too.
Jul 11, 2010
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Catalyst_Kh wrote:
If i remember correctly, AWARDCHESS played online more than 1,000 games simultaneously (almost all 3 days per move or lower) and finished them all without single timeout. Beat that and then you may brag about.
I think he also created clubs, tournaments, forums, blogs, photos, the whole lot at an incredible rate whilst also playing his 1000 games.
Remember ANIKO? She stole quite a bit of AWARDCHESS's thunder with 3000+ games simultaneously. He was not happy about it.
In answer to the question, yeah, you're definitely crazy.
I'm talking bout bullet.. not online chess.. Awardchess played 1000.. yes but took him months to complete.. i played 120 games in one sitting.. really tiring.
Well, both awardchess and you are crazy, ok. Happy?
lol
Catalyst_Kh wrote:
dunce wrote:
Remember ANIKO? She stole quite a bit of AWARDCHESS's thunder with 3000+ games simultaneously. He was not happy about it.
That is incorrect, ANIKO just started games and then abandon it, most games was timeouted already in openings and total percentage of timeouts was 80% or 90% or even more. So, it doesn't count as any record.
I didn't read those threads till the end, but there was shared opinion that ANIKO is the account for some script-bot for unknown purposes, best guess was the bot-software just redirected moves to other players (maybe to other chess websites), so actually ANIKO opponents was playing with different other poeple via ANIKO's account.
That bot theory was only a theory. Nothing was ever proved. Frankly, if it was a bot, her (?) game abandonement level would be much lower. Bots don't get tired or lose interest.
Besides, I seem to remember someone who was chatting with her (?) in Hungarian while playing. Hard for a bot to do that.
Another theory was that she was bed-ridden or something, and had nothing better to do. Whatever the reason, it doesn't matter.
Regarding the timeouts: even if you're still in the opening, you are technically in the game. Because the side-category of discussion introduced by Catalyst_Kh above specified the greatest number of simultaneous games, I believe ANIKO would qualify, whether or not the games were eventually abandoned.
And we're officially off the original topic, which was the longest period of Live Chess. Personally, I often play 1 to 3 hours of bullet (1 0) per sitting. Not much compared to you, Serb.
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I have played blitz ( 5-0 and 3-0 ) chess with a friend of mine for more than 12 hours straight before.... on several opportunities. Once we did this at a 24 hour burger joint ( Hardee's I believe ). We used to refer to that particular burger joint as our " chess club " . 
i used to be closed to that for blitz 5-0 games, but im over that now. on to losing online games instead!
It is certainly notable. My longest record is around 4 hours of blitz (5 0).
SerbianChessStar wrote:
I played 120 bullet games on ICC, took about 5 hours, I started with winning streaks (6-7 won games in a row) then 4 hours in I lost 11 games in a row but ended strong with 4 losses in 20 games! It was fun but really tiring.. I think I'm crazy for playing so much! Whatdo you guys think? Has anyone here played more then me in one sitting?
I've done 7 hours of blitz in one sitting, around 120 games, very tiring, hard to get up from chair afterwards. Like you about an hour or two away from quitting I'll have a lot of losses, then re-group right before quitting. I've done a few 6 hours sessions too -- I think I've regretted every one lol.
Jul 13, 2010
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I starting to think that there may be a market for catheters with chess designs on 'em.
That's CRAZY! lolz
Jul 24, 2010
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Some Russian GMs have been playing blitz for 40-60 hours straight...
Well, that's GMs! And YOU'RE an IM. Y'all are professionals! Heck, we're all just hobbyists who love chess. No one has ever, or will ever, pay me to play chess, I don't think. lolz.
