beach: Many people can handle many games. I am playing a few people who have more games than you and they do fine. But regardless, some tourneys have lasted years and it's usually one or two people who drag them out that long. That's just plain bad form on their part. Yes it's within the time limit, but I've always looked at the 7 days as useful for those that would be gone a few days etc. Not to be used as a literal 7 days per moves. But I get what you are saying and that's why I now try to pay attention to tourneys and only play in 3 days per move tourneys.


Also, when a tourney organizer knows who the slow pokes are (those that move at the last minute) then like me, they likely would remove those players from their tourneys.

Artful Dodger: Here is an idea which might help: I set up tournaments typically with 2 days or so, but accumulating time up to 7 days. That means you need to make a move within two days in average, but if you play rather fast, you will accumulate 7 days of time, so if you have a business travel or such, you can let that run down.
The point is that you need to 'earn' that longer time by playing several moves faster than the limit of two days; you cannot use it for every move.
I think that should work ok, if everybody sets tourneys up that way. Maybe even 1 day per move, accumulating up to 7 days?

beach: I agree with what you wrote; these are games. However, some people are more competitive than others (and I'm in the first row here), and they can't help it when a player times out a lot of games. Not if he does against me - free BKR and wins - but if he does it in a difficult tournament: Imagine I squeeze a draw out of a strong player after a difficult game, which I'm proud of, and then he looses all other games on time. So the 'punishment' for me moving fast and playing well is that I get a draw, and all others get a 'win', so I'm one point behind in the competition. That has happened, and it does not go well with my mood... being less competitive would certainly ease the pain, but that's easier said than done - I am what I am.

Aganju: Is it possible in such a tourney set up that one could accumlate 7 days and keep that number? I suppose they'd have to keep moving to keep it up and that would be the point. But I'm curious as to how the numbers would work exactly.

Artful Dodger: Fischer clock games

rod03801: ahhhhh