How many correspondence chess games can I play at a time?

Hi, I am a relatively new member of this site, and I'd like to know the maximum number of games I can play at a time, as someone who doesn't pay to play on the website.

Welcome to chess.com! As a free member, you can play only one live game at a time, but you can play as many correspondence games at a time as you want.

There have been a number of players with over 1,000 games at a time (highly not recommended) and I'm sure not all of them had premium membership.  Maybe chess.com has tightened up the rules so this is no longer possible, but any reasonable # should be fine.

It's ridiculous that chess.com has not a max game limit. Limit of 100-200 games at the same time would be fine.

It is no limit of correspondence chess games here..

Thanks srikanth :) And all the others. Except rmurray, you're not funny, nor helpful.

I do not have personal experience in this issue, but I do not think there is any limit for how many correspondence games a member is allowed to have active at one time.

Given that a certain amount of "shrinking" occurs in features available to basic members, there may be a cap limit placed on this at some point. 

On a related note, how can some people tolerate playing several hundred correspondence games concurrently?  I find it stressful just to keep up with ten.

Yes, and Welcome to Chess.com also.

My god, I already have someone to block, and it's only my first forum question. I wish I could delete her mocking comments. Does she habitually post comments like that?

Who is posting bad comments?

Typing ridiculous comments is a waste of time and what benefit does it have?

  He's not asking how many correspondence games he can play if he did nothing else.  He's asking how many correspondence games Chess.com allows.  It's a perfectly respectable and answerable question.  The answer is that Chess.com doesn't limit the number of simultaneous correspondence games.  This may not be a schmooze fest, however I think we should be a little more helpful and welcoming to new members. That's my two cents.

rmurray in her own words, is only a "figment of her own imagination", so don't pay attention to anything she says. Personally I think her avatar and being a female is all part of the figment.

Thanks Hessian & chamillionaire

Unfortunately many people on the forums are rude.

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Thank you, I have just now sent a report.

I was wondering this too.  I was just looking to start a game with "open seeks" and there was this person who filled up the seeks.  I came back later, and same guy with all the seeks filled.

I went to view his /her page, and saw his adverage game lasted 3 days, and 3 to 8 moves.  I saw very few games that went above 10 moves, although there were some.

This tells me he isn't really into playing, but is giving the site a bad feel, especially to a new member.  Well, my feelings anyway.

I fairly new too, and don't feel I have the right to "red flag" someone, so, what should I do, other than just not play him, which I'm not.  But I am wondering about new players who may be turned off by this "abuse".  Yes, my opinion, but hey I have one.

I forgot to say he has 1705 games going right now.  Playing 18 hours a day, if I figured right, that's about 94 moves an hour.  I allowed for sleep (6 hours) and meals while he is playing.