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How many games can you comfortably manage?

How many games can you comfortably manage?

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Originally posted by Mike OConnor
For me, if I have too many on the go I tend not to devote the required time to each one and consequently lose games I may otherwise win.

I think my ideal amount to have running at once is between 5 & 10...

Anyone else?

Cheers, M
It depends what else is going on in my life if things are 'normal' about 30ish, however I have just bought a house in a surrey market town, keeping/refurbishing my london flat to rent out and I am busy with work so I have kept my games down to the bare minimum (ie only 1 tournamnet - head to head and clan league games)

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I tend to be fairly comfortable around 30, although it varies with what else I'm doing. Anything more than 50 became too much, and if it's below about 25 I get a little bored.

Of course, one factor is that the number of *active* games is always a bit lower. I find that around 2/3 of my games are waiting for me on a 'normal' day, but it's less on the weekends.

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forty two

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I prefer around 70 games. Running games, that is. I have around 20 games with a skull (I am collecting them). So now close to a 100 games total is just fine.

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Originally posted by DeepThought
forty two
So THAT was the question!

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The question and the answer, good job you jerk you just destroyed the universe and got it replaced by something more bizarre. Why couldn't you just stick with "How many roads must a man walk down?" ?

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