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how many chess games have you played ?

how many chess games in your Life have you played if you can Count between the fingers or exactly doesnt matter and Count the ones otb also ?
Long games: 20 a year for 6 years, 7 a year for 10 years, 3 a year for 16 years. 138 + maybe another hundred correspondence.
Blitz: In school I played during lunch, too many all-nighters, about 3 hours once a week from September to March for 20+ years, and 5000+ online.
A few dozen bullet, a few hundred blitz (stopped playing those for the most part).

A few thousand classic (though what counts as "classic" varies across platforms, we'll use lichess's qualifications).
OTB tourneys, long time control : about 20 and never more
OTB tourneys, 15 or 21 minutes: about 60 and never more
OTB 5 0 blitz: 30,000 for 10 years. 1 0 bullet: 2 or 3 and hated it.
5 0 online: less than 100 and swore I would never play online again in my life. Stopped for 5 years. More 30,000 bullet/blitz (FICS) and stopped again "forever". A few years latter more 30,000 (ICC) and stopped again... then chess.com, etc... total online: 20,000 blitz and 80,000 bullet. Very addictive. Now I found a place that is better than any other chess server and with no "catch". You create an account, start playing for free as many games as you want, no adds, everything is top quality. There should be a button to block myself forever from creating an account/logging in here.
But I could remove it, right? What I mean is a button that says "close account and never be able to open another one from any of your devices". Chesssuicide.
Don't do it, there are so many passed pawns to live for.
Over 100.000

Would love to know the exact number, but half of the chess sites I have played on no longer even exist (I played online chess for the first time in 1997), and the rest I don't remember the screen names and passwords to check.

But I guess what really counts is OTB tournament games, I have mostly played online, so i only have 142 rated classical games and 237 rated blitz games OTB.

I'm going to change that though, because I decided to start playing OTB again, after 7 years break.

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