Reasonable Number of Games

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Hello all,
I'm just curious how many games you typically play at once. The most
I've tackled is 3 and that seemed to keep me busy. 2 seems the limit to
me to be able to 'focus'.


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Aaron Deskins
Graduate Student
Chemical Engineering
Purdue University

 

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I've never played more than 3, and that many was a drain. 2 at a time
seems to be reasonable.

Everybody's limit is different, though. It depends on several factors,
in no particular order:
1) Deadlines (72 hour games? 3 week games? Something in between?)
2) Type of game (obviously, Gunboat takes a lot less time)
3) How much time you're willing to devote overall
4) How much emotional/intellectual bandwidth you can spare

 

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Hi, Aaron

I'd say my limits are much like yours. Of course, as Tehipite Tom points
out, a lot depends on the kind of games you play. I've never played more
than 2 concurrent games of Standard full-press, and I wouldn't want to. But
I've been in a tournament which required participation in no fewer than 7
simultaneous games of 60hr Gunboat (no-press). That was taxing, but doable:
no mental breakdown, and no big mistakes (at least not due to overload!).

Cheers,
Andy

"Aaron Deskins" <ndeskins@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
> I'm just curious how many games you typically play at once. The most
> I've tackled is 3 and that seemed to keep me busy. 2 seems the limit to
> me to be able to 'focus'.
>
>
> --
> Aaron Deskins
> Graduate Student
> Chemical Engineering
> Purdue University

 

[steven]

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I'm currently in 8 games.
Of course 7 are no press so take almost no time at all to work with them.