Russell Sherwood Sunday, August 8, 2021
This week's tip is fairly simple - know your limits.
If you ask CC players how many games you can effectively play concurrently, answers tend to range from the cryptic "One!" through ta consensus from stronger players of around 20-30 games.
Now I play a lot more than this, probably related to FOMO and have written on several methods by which this can be achieved in the past, but I was surprised to find a player with over 300 concurrent ICCF games!
The Tip this week is to consider how many games you can manage AND put decent effort into them - it is worth noting that in the example about the player's rating is yo-yoing all over the place as he is triggering the 80 game rating rule.
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