Why are we on Chess.com?

This is about an attitude check for me.  I know I want to win every game, just like everyone else.  And sometimes when I wind up with a lot of games, it starts to feel like work... not fun at all.

I was playing someone recently who had over 100 games going, and I asked him, how can you stand having that many games at once?

He said, "Its not easy, I make a lot of mistakes, but I LOOOOVE me some chess."

Yes, that's it.  Perfect.  That's going to stay in my head even when I'm getting my head handed to me.

=)

"Its not easy, I make a lot of mistakes, but I LOOOOVE me some chess."

Same here.

I try to manage how many games I am playing so I can stay involved in them, sometimes though (like right now) a lot of long running tournaments all seem to drop at once.  100 games?? Jeesh.

I top out when I first started with around 60+ games...that was intense...I feel like I ldo love chess, but Ilove other things as well so a balance must be created...I have learned that around 20 games is just about perfect...depending on my opponents...sometimes its a little slow if they aren't making moves and sometimes its perfect.  With other interests and a family its hard to gamble and take on too many games. 

"And sometimes when I wind up with a lot of games, it starts to feel like work... not fun at all."

I am right now at this point but have been slowly moving back towards the green area. Once I hit 20 games and went above it becomes a job that takes up an inordinary amount of your spare time. Unless you don't mind losing then this wouldn't matter. Which in turn begs the question: "Why does someone play if not to win or improve the game?" I am looking forward to hitting 10 games again.

I came here because I heard it was a dating site.

I was blackmailed and my life was threatened, that is why I joined.  

and I hate me some chess :) jk I love it

(when I had more than 10 games going at once I would have chess nightmares.  Now I just stick with live chess.)

I'm here because I like to play chess but don't know many people IRL who play.  Or, some of the people I know who play don't live here.  So this site is a place where I can play them or random people.

But I don't think I'm going to ever want to play more than a few games at a time.  If chess ever started to feel like work to me then I'd have to back off a bit.

That's true, sometimes you feel a litle tired and then mistakes come frequently, anyway I think too many games (how many?) is not healthy neither. You can see the young FM Kacper, from Poland, he is running now 418 games !

  Ah, the energy of youth!  If Chess.com (or the internet, for that matter) had existed when I was 15, I might have had two or three hundred games going...

Last July I had 100 games. Well, I learned my lesson as now I have 24 games.

I try to keep my number of games below 50. If I don't, it feels like a chore as you said, and I make way to many mistakes.