How many games should I play every day?

I am currently at 1000 elo and I've been playing for 6 months, but the number of games I play every day constantly changes. Sometimes I play none, other times 1-2 rapid games, and occasionally even 5+ blitz/bullet games. So how many games am I supposed to play to get effective results?

Several games per day , that is enough . Remember to review the games after the game finished .

just play as much as you want beetween 5-50 games a week

50. Be like Tyler1

At least 2

Thanks for your valuable comments

The number of games you should play depends on several factors; it isn't just a specific number. For example, just saying "play 9 games per day" isn't useful because this will take way longer for someone playing 60 min games compared to someone playing 10 min games.

How much you play per day depends on how much time you have for chess each day, what time control you play, your mindset and flow mid-session (for example, if you are tilted, it might be better to just quit playing for the day). The danger behind playing too much is mostly burnout and the danger behind playing too little is slow improvement and not gaining enough experience.

If you are playing 10 min chess.com games (most popular time control on chess.com), then 9 games sounds like a lot. The number 9 comes from a titled player who wrote an article on how many chess games to play per day and they recommended 9 as the optimal number (I don't remember who wrote this article, but I think it was a GM. If anyone links the article, that would be cool ). However, 9 sounds like a lot to me. If you estimate an average of 2 games per hour (10 min per side means each game can take up to 20 minutes, so that is up to 40 minutes in an hour plus the time to analyze the games afterwards, so we round to an hour if 10 min analysis per game), then 9 games would take about 4.5 hours to complete. That sounds like a lot to me.

I don't even play 4.5 hours of chess games per day now; I play less than this. Don't get me wrong, I used to play really long sessions (like 8-12 hours on some long days) but what I learned over the years (with maturity) is that this wasn't really optimal for me. I would play my best chess for about 2-3 hours and then usually crash a bunch of rating and then keep grinding and spend the rest of the hours recovering that rating. Some days I'd grind chess for 8+ hours and then laugh at the fact that all of that just gained me a single rating point for the day xD (not too shabby when you realize one could grind this much and LOSE rating for the day).

Playing this much was good for me gaining a lot of playing experience, but I learned that I could save myself a lot of effort and time by playing when I was in better form and then taking a break for the day. In my case, it used to be about 2-3 hours I could play fairly well before I noticed I was missing things. The exact length of time will be different for each person (back then I was around 1500-1800 rating, so people less than this rating might play their best chess in sessions less than this and maybe people with higher rating might play their best chess in sessions longer than this).

The goal isn't to play only when you are in your best form, but the goal is to play when you are in good form and motivated to play.

Here are at least two resources which should help. The first is a chess.com blog post I wrote which is really important to understand BEFORE you start investing a lot of time into chess. The second resource is a YouTube video I made on the Stop-Loss System which relates really closely to what I recommend for deciding how much chess to play per day:

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/chess-motivation-through-purpose

1 game a day

Great

I've started doing 10+ puzzles 1st thing every day and try do at least one game a day finding it really helpful. Playin