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.
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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!
Oct 10, 2009
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aadaam wrote:
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.
Oct 10, 2009
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chsskrazy wrote:
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.
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?
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!
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?