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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. Botvinnik's quote refers t
by 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?