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Great analysis! I wonder whether you can also incorporate puzzle usage in this. "But while I have the data here, let's take a moment to answer the question eve
by ummonk 5y ago
Great analysis! I wonder whether you can also incorporate puzzle usage in this.
"But while I have the data here, let's take a moment to answer the question everyone's asking: does playing more games make you a better chess player?
Intuitively, the answer seems like it should be yes. Seems like experience should be a huge factor in someone's chess strength. It also seems like the go-to answer many of the top players recommend for improving at chess."
That's actually not what I've seen top trainers recommend, at least for improvement at classical time controls. They recommend playing something like one or two games a day but carefully analyzing each game afterwards.
- yupper32 5y agoYeah I don't know where this person was getting that idea. Almost every good chess player says to play less chess and do more tactics/study.
- dmurray 5y agoTime playing chess should be at least a weak proxy for time spent on all chess activities, which you'd expect to correlate with improvement. At least at smaller numbers - of course if someone is spending 23 hours a day playing chess they aren't spending much time studying or anything else.
- interblag 5y ago> I wonder whether you can also incorporate puzzle usage in this. Unfortunately the article itself states that data on puzzles, lessons, etc are not available from the Lichess API, so all that they can really look at are games played... (Though agree this would be cool!)