New Record!

I have 572 concurrent games, around 340 games have just started.

lol

300 games goiing on, about 250 just started. It is a lot. But as always, Nagy wins ;-)

In this case this is not a win, it is a disaster, I play on other game sites too, and I have active games on all of them, and unfortunately, I have a life too?!

I think only ~20 started for me this time, bringing me up to 155. I'm setting a reminder on my phone to check what all I'm registered for that starts in July in case I completely lose my mind at some point this month and overestimate my free time (likely).

For me, even 20 games is too much. I don't like double round system. Or at least rematches could start after the first game will finish.

Doing double match-ups but only having one go at a time would be less of a sudden workload, but also make the tournament potentially take twice as long. I have little doubt that consecutive championships would be forced to either overlap somehow or be delayed.

Another thing to possibly do (possibly in addition) is alter the time controls themselves; make championships a special case with something like 120+24 time controls versus LG's standard 240+36 for everything else.

The secret is to don't think, just play. I play on LG sometimes faster than real time rapid games. :-)

I'm with Crelo on this. I view the collection of games in my queue as a macro-level "game". I move pretty rapidly through them. Come to think of it... that might explain my ranking in most these games...

That's not why I play on this turn-based server. If I just wanted to play shallow games, there are lots of other places to play, at least for chess and go.

I go back and forth with different games, playing many... not quickly, but not thinking too deeply now actively expanding my strategy. But then, with one or two games at a time, I'll focus and research and strategize and make a 100-200 point jump. Games like Breakthrough and Connect6 are good examples--if ratings graphs were still here, you could see that reflected in them.

Then that paradigm is scaled up or down inversely to the number of games I'm playing; I'm more likely to deeply focus on each game if I've got 15 than when I have 150.

I do like to think at least a little bit, though. Blitz and Bullet games stress me out and make me feel like I'm getting actively worse. I can hear little crackles as my brain contracts like sucking the contents out of a Capri Sun.