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How many games a day do you play?

I read someone else's comment where they mentioned that they started with a pretty low rating but 2 years and 15K games later theyve reached 1600. Thats roughly 42 games a day (on average). Thats intense!

As a beginner, Im trying to set up a detailed plan for my improvement and live games are obviously a part of that. Id like a specific goal to shoot for every day in terms of how much I should actually be playing.

Now, I know itll be different from person to person, but Im just trying to get a feel for what the "norm" is.

On average, how many games do you play each day?
Maybe 50 or so, but those are mostly blitz games.

Quality over quantity, my friend. I'd probably improve more with 2 Classical games a day (with analysis) instead of several rapid, thoughtless ones.
Thank you for the response! I wasnt expecting one so quickly. Being new, I dont play much Blitz, but I do shoot for two or three a day if I can and I try to give each game a good analysis.
I most certainly don't recommend any blitz if you're a beginner.

If a novice more than fourteen years, then it is possible. But do not fokusirovatsya to blitz. Better to play rapid chess from 10 minutes every opponent.
Some of your answer can be located in the profile section: Member since Aug 15, 2012
Then you find a website that calculates differences in dates and plug in a few options like:
If I was to exclude weekends and holidays, I was available 364 days.

Profile shows something like : Time spent playing: 16 days (23040 min), 5 hours (300 min) & 32 minutes = Played a total of 23372 minutes on Lichess.

Basically in nearly one year (364 days) / (23372 minutes played) = 64.21 minutes per days

Therefore, I guess I play about an hour a day. That seems like good training since school classes are about an hour long.

Perform training by repetitions of the good moves, not the repetition of errors. I believe speed chess trains both good and bad moves. To acquire a good knowledge of chess it takes time to learn and then time to practice it slowly. With time, the speed will come with it, do to pattern recognition.
Games played per day could be automatically calculated then shown on profile page, like phpBB's "posts per day" feature.
I play probably 2 or 3 times a day 5 or 6 days a week. Right now it's harder for me to calculate that, though, since I'm doing a lot of correspondence. I think it's important to play often, but also very important to take breaks. I often come back from 2 or 3 days of not playing and go from a losing streak to a winning streak.
Hi Curlaub, you're probably remembering a post I made in this thread: http://en.lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/improving-without-studying?page=2#15

Though you might not be.

My profile says I've spent 29 days and 11 hours playing chess here over 10,593 games.

(29 x 24) + 11 = 707 hours
= 42420 minutes,

Over around 2 and a half years = roughly 1.25 million minutes.
About half of that is unavailable (for sleep), and perhaps another half of that also unavailable (for study, socialising, eating), so I have about 375,000 spare minutes over 2 and a half years.

So I think that's roughly 10 minutes a day I've spent playing over 2 and a half years, which isn't actually that much.

However bear in mind that I played a lot more two years ago, as I had more free time, whereas now I am in law school and I might not play every single day. In fact, this year I have only played around 1,500 games (compared to around 9,000 over two years).

I am also trying to assess the claim that "it takes you 10,000 hours to become an expert at something." This is a long term purely anecdotal study of mine. It also means that after I've played about 1,000 hours (and thus am completely sure I have the basics down), I'll focus on studying the game via authors/books/videos and playing longer games. Indeed, I have already moved from bullet to blitz.

If by 10,000 hours (of genuine study and play) I have not reached at least national master strength, I'll be sorely disappointed.
I hate to be that guy but...

#9, @german11 has played well over 10,000 hours of chess on lichess alone. That's uh, a rather unhealthy amount of chess! But he is still in the 1500s... that said, I'm not sure if he studies chess. I've stopped playing for a while and been doing some intense study.

You can see my play improving by leaps and bounds in my correspondence game (as I've studied while I played), but of course, I'm at a significantly lower level than you. So while play time is very important, I think there are certain steps that must first be taken and books that must be read to get yourself up to a level where you can simply improve by playing and analysing games.

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