User 337724
917 games in progress
With that many games Hardcore tournaments are probably not appropriate. It is no good starting them if you can't play them and it is no good playing them if you have so little time to spend that you cannot win them.
I am tempted 1 day to see what 2000 7/?? games would do to my rating. An average 300 moves would need to be made a day and at 10 seconds a move that would be 3000 seconds chess a day or 50 minutes chess so with 10 minutes spare I could do it in an hour a day, which is possible. My best guess is that even without timeouts my rating would drop to about 1400-1500 as there would be no time to consult a book, database or analyse even the simple positions. I suspect I would make more blunders than Heng has.
Originally posted by ivan2908Who is more obsesssive
RHP bosses should limit maximum games to say 100 or 200. For the sake of the players with more than 500 or so. I don't think it's healthy anymore, it looks like some kind of obsession.
Player A with 500 games in progress making 200 moves per day
or
Player B with 100 games in progress making 200 moves per day
or
Player C with a max of 6 games in progress at any time making 200 moves per day
After all they all play the same amount of chess per day!
Originally posted by adramforallgood point.
Who is more obsesssive
Player A with 500 games in progress making 200 moves per day
or
Player B with 100 games in progress making 200 moves per day
or
Player C with a max of 6 games in progress at any time making 200 moves per day
After all they all play the same amount of chess per day!
You might also add player D with one game going who takes several hours over each move.
Originally posted by JonathanB of LondonI think there should be a maximum game limit. I had won against Heng (not by timing out like all others did, I was a rook up), he was 1700 at that time as I remember, and the next week he fell down to 900s and I lost many points for that.
good point.
You might also add player D with one game going who takes several hours over each move.
Yes, Atri also has a couple against me, fine, let them sit there, they dont do me any harm and it doesnt particularly bother me personally, but I do think it bad form to enter every single tournament and then cause every tournament you are in to be as slow as possible.
Maybe there should be a site limit of tournament games, say 200 tournament games max at any one time, thats reasonable for pretty much everyone except these extreme cases.