How many games should i play in a day?

I am a new player who started playing like 2-3 weeks ago. How many games should i play in a day and how much time should i give to the learning stuff?

1-5 maybe

You must live the game, you must spend every free second in it. You have to play 30 games per second. You have to be the best of the best in this [removed -- MS] game. The fact that you are the best you have to prove to everyone, friend, brother, parents, the whole world. Don't stop bro

I think he meant, you must spend every free zeckond on it.

i think 9, but learn 3 things first everyday before you play, so you can practice when ur playing, and you can rest a bit after you play 5 games bc you'll get tired, then after the rest finish the 4 games that left, and you can do some puzzle if you want

Depends on the time control you are playing

I read this chess training program once which suggested playing 1 Rapid game and 4 blitz game on alternate days.

Never followed it xD

Key is to analyse your game afterwards.

if blitz at max 10-15

if rapid at may 5

I try and play 1 or 2 rapid games a day, review my mistakes in those games and play puzzles

It depends on several things such as what time control games you play. Obviously, playing a specific number of games per day would be very different if you played 60 min chess versus 10 min chess. Another thing to consider is how long can you play a chess session and stay pretty focused? You shouldn't really be going any longer than this and different people have different levels of focus.

There is no doubt that part of getting good is playing a lot of games and learning from your mistakes (analysis after the game is great for this), but playing tons by itself isn't going to help you improve either.

I think more important than the number of games you play is what you learn from those games (especially your losses) and how often you can stick to playing games. If you play too many games per day (whichever that may be), then you risk burning yourself out faster.

@DwayneJohnson42069 has good advice to start out with. If you have no idea how much to play at all, then playing 1 or 2 rapid games a day is a good start and you can always play more games as you gain experience and feel comfortable playing more.

dont play if you feel that you wont play your best

whether this be due to frustration, a bad surrounding, lack of focus, or whatever, dont play at that time

this should dictate the number perfectly

edit: also dont play if you dont want to (ofc)

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The point is not the number of games you play per day, but what you actually do next. You need to carefully review each one of your games, wins and losses but unfortunately there is more to learn in lost games.

You shold play a number of games that still allows you to review each one carefully.

The other advice that I can share with you on "how many games to play" is: don't use your entire chess time for play. Imagine you play 30 minutes, and then you spend 15 reviewing what went wrong, keep some time (around the same time you invested in game review) to study something else: tactics, endgames, opening.

This final part, ideally, is connected to your findings in the review part: depending on what goes wrong, you will prioritize topics for some study/training. This mix of play/review/learn more is what you need to really improve, play a lot sure but also make sure your time budget doesn't go entirely in that.

Thanks for the input

I like to play as long as I can think straight