On average, two hours per day, everyday. Apparently not enough if one considers my rating. 
How many hours a week to you play or practice?
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Too much... Anywhere from an hour to maybe 3 hours in a day. I'm definitely cutting back on that, trying to figure out how to increase the quality of my play/study and decrease quantity. CC games are a real addiction.
I play about 3-4 hours a day. I like contributing to the forums and play a lot of CC games.
I play chess on Chess.com everyday (Don't know if that counts.) I don't read much about chess but I plan to. As for playing another person. I don't have anyone to really play with in my family so I just stick to chess.com
Maybe an hour or so a day. Don't study chess books, have read a couple but not into studying 'classical' openings, though I like Four Knights openings and variations on those.
all of it? there's really not much time when I'm not thinking about pieces shuffling on board.
yesterday I played about 4h, 1-2h tactics, 2-3h drilling endgames against fritz. it's about average for me. sometimes more, sometimes less, whatever I feel like.
I don't read chess books (if I can avoid it), follow chess world social garbage nor chess 'culture' in general. I'm only interested in pieces moving on board, nothing else. most chess writing bores me to death because so little of it deals with chess itself. just the facts, ma'am.
Hours each day- wish it was helping me- too distracted with other things I presume some very important, others not so. Trying to get into a daily schedule for my bible study and then time for chess and my other hobbies- One of these days.....
IrishMike
Aug 8, 2008
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I play online a lot, but how much of that time should really count as practice? I really don't improve by blitz games played to kill time.
The recently discovered fact I found somehow disturbing is that there are guys - on chess tactics servers (the ones where you're solving chess puzzles to gain rating points), who have done like 30 thousands chess problems, and their rating is still so-so. Same as mine. They probably spend whole days on that - and they're not moving on.
Vibovit wrote: The recently discovered fact I found somehow disturbing is that there are guys - on chess tactics servers (the ones where you're solving chess puzzles to gain rating points), who have done like 30 thousands chess problems, and their rating is still so-so. Same as mine. They probably spend whole days on that - and they're not moving on.
yep, the ones who do CTS with low accuracy (67-68% gives you maximum rating), don't improve after the initial fast rise which is due to getting used to CTS. the high accuracy bunch (90%+ decreases your max rating about 200-300 pts) improves slow but steady. I went from 1050 at 67% to 1650 at 90% in two years, at which point I moved on to other training than tactics.
Wormstar, how come high accuracy decreases your maximum rating? I don't understand
Aug 8, 2008
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About 3 hours a day... except sunday .. I'm always too busy sunday.
About 2-3 hours a day, including Tactics Trainer.
Aug 8, 2008
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If I can. I play one hour, practice one hour.This helps me to keep sharp. I try not to over play or practice. Their was a time when I played a lot so much so that I do believe I may have missed some events in history.
Vibovit wrote:
Wormstar, how come high accuracy decreases your maximum rating? I don't understand
it's just the way the penalty from wrong solution vs. gain from correct answer adds up in the CTS rating formula. the sweet spot for max rating as a function of accuracy, is not the same as the sweet spot for efficient learning. if the penalty was bigger, it would shift the max rating optimum up to a higher accuracy range. now it's at 67%, which is only 2 right & 1 wrong for every 3 problem, which is only a little better than flipping a coin, and thus mostly guessing and naturally won't teach you anything. 95% is 1 wrong 19 correct. the difference is huge, and grows up exponentially with accuracy.
max learning doesn't come from 100% correct either, as that requires huge mental energy to keep up, as well as takes much more time. which means you can't get through as much problems in a session because it's simply too exhausting. -it's easy to do 300-400 problems a day at 67%, but even a 100 at 95% a day is hard to maintain over time.
i play to much
for me it just depends on the day, there are days I'm playing chess for just 1 hour, or even do not play at all, but before I went on vacation I was playing for about 6 or 7 hours a day with my best friends. We played from 11(10:30) am to 2 pm and from 6(5:30) pm to 9pm at a bookstore. And I don't count the time I spend on Chess.com or studying chess books.
way 2 much ... on and off all day everyday ... called an addiction
Just curious..