All the same, I don't think playing that much really does much for your chess skills either. There's really only so much information you can absorb in a day. As

All the same, I don't think playing that much really does much for your chess skills either. There's really only so much information you can absorb in a day. As an analogue, Richter, one of the greatest pianists of all time, regularly only practiced 3 hours a day.