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And yet the current world chess champion often plays 80 bullet games within a matter of hours in various online events or matches. Everybody is different. Pla
by peter422 5y ago
And yet the current world chess champion often plays 80 bullet games within a matter of hours in various online events or matches.
Everybody is different. Playing lots of games gives you the ability to experience playing different types of positions against different players, which can feed into your training in terms of figuring out which areas to focus on.
If you want to get better at chess you will have to study, but I don’t think playing is in itself negative. Only if you never study and only play.
There are also practical things like managing the clock and managing your attitude that you can only practice in games.
- djrockstar1 5y ago> And yet the current world chess champion often plays 80 bullet games within a matter of hours in various online events or matches. Botvinnik's quote refers to tournament games, that is, long, over the board, classical time control games that take hours to play. It says nothing about playing practice/friendly games, or playing other time controls.
- dmurray 5y agoBotvinnik also claimed he only ever played one blitz game, so he did mean this in a stronger sense. Though he may have been allowing for training games at tournament time controls. Incidentally, I'm familiar with the recommendation (actually I thought it was a maximum of 50 games in a year) but I can't find any source for it online. Does anyone have a source?