Too many games

I've played against several opponents where they have had over 200 3 days/turn games.  How do they remember their plan?  Are they even playing chess or just moving pieces around?  Once I have more then ten games, I start to forget my GM ideas.  How many games can you realistically play at once? 

hi!! ive played up to 145 at one point !! poorly played though

Chess just put me up against a guy that had over 1300+ games.  I didn't want to waste my time and just aborted the game.

i did sort of bulk learn though

Don't blame your move 1. a3 on playing too many games.

LOL

I think it's an addiction issue.

Chess addiction Pretty good at remembering a 100 games took a while to get use to 200 games. It does get eazy after a while. 180 games my rating around and between 1400 to  1500. Now at a hundred games my rating made it to 1559. It depends on a lot of factors in your home life. I have been burnt out on chess take a break do some thing else and Education that burnt me out back at chess:-)

i have 10 games going on and i think it's too much .. what's the point of play more than 100 games at the same time?

I can play like 12 at once, if it is 3 days per move. This tourney I joined makes me play like 20 games at once with 1 day per move, shiit  I do not know what I was thinking joining. But so far so good, and after this tourney I won't do anything like that again :P

That is a quick turn-around.  One bad day at work and you timed-out on all 20 games.

I've found when I only have four games, I get anxious for my opponent to make his move.  Ido agree that it does give you a lot more time to think about your move and play better. 

Sometimes people have a bias against something either because they don't like it or don't understand the other guy's perspective.

For example, I would never play one single bullet game. Yet, I recognize that there are those who love the game.

When it comes to online games, that's what I prefer. Many others don't like it and can't see how someone else can play many such games at once.

If I played just one game, I would be bored out of my skull. I would hate waiting three days for the opponent to move. The game could drag out six months or more.

But, if for example, I played 20 games simultaneously, then every time that I log in there will usually be one or more games waiting for my move. Let's say 20games/3days = 6 or 7 games waiting. I can look at each as a chess puzzle and make a move in 5 or 10 seconds. This would be similar to me playing speed chess.

Or, I could take a minute or two on some moves. In fact, I could spend 72 hours pondering the move (nobody does that...people who don't play online think online players are slow, dull-witted because they are ignorant).

My preference: about 80 games. There are games to be had at this site (all 80) or spread them out at two, three or four sites.

Moral of the story: Don't be too quick to judge that which who don't personally like or just don't have facts and knowledge to support your bias.

Hey, this is just a friendly attempt at explaining a different viewpoint. 

Besides, with online...you have as much time as you care to spend in really understanding your moves, playing backwards as a refresh to see how you got there, using an analysis board to do "what ifs", etc.

Nobody was judging.

people play for different reasons, people have different amounts of free time, people have different abilities with memory, people have various attitudes about the rating points.  it's a good site to cover the whole spectrum.

i'll start a lot of games when i'm on a vacation and hope to get most of them done by the time it's over.  or i might go on a binge and impulsively play a lot of blitz for a time.  but even though i play very casually and ratings points mean absolutely nothing to me, i'm not really playing to "just move pieces around".  i love to play but i don't like to read chess books.  so i create chess problems of my own making with these games and try to solve them.  i'll start a bunch of games the same way to see the various responses to a move, i figure out an end game by going through a lot of them, etc.  

to me it's more like sketching rather than creating a masterpiece each time.  i play very loose and take chances and try different ideas and i think it has helped me improve overall--i tend to remember positions of my own making much better than something i see in someone else's game.  but while i don't consider myself a super chess player, i really like playing  and try to keep it enjoyable.

very nice ,all the best

Surely you jest...

"Are they even playing chess or just moving pieces around? "

"I also think hundres of games are crazy."

"I didn't want to waste my time and just aborted the game."

"I think it's an addiction issue."

"i have 10 games going on and i think it's too much .. what's the point of play more than 100 games at the same time?"

"...I won't do anything like that again."

"However I prefer around 4 as I think I can take more time and play better.."

Now, I am not attempting to denigrate anyone's disdain for those who like to play a large quantity of simultaneous online games. My point is to illustrate that there is a valid alternative point-of-view. "One man's meat is another man's poison" is an ancient idiom. 

Nobody is being judged in those statements. They are all statements saying why the people who made them feel that having so many games is not for them.

I don't like to eat the internal organs of animals, but I know plenty of people who like to eat liver. Just because I say I think liver is disgusting and I'd never eat it does not mean I think anything negative of those who do.

It doesn't bother me that you are obtuse.

It doesn't bother me that you are petty and overly sensitive.