Playing Games…
I recently wrote two php scripts (based on my personal game database) that analyzed the average number of games I play per day.
At first I was pleased to see that my current average number of games played per day is hovering around 0.6. It’s not as good as I liked it, but one game every other day or so isn’t too bad! And then I realized that that’s over the entire conglomoration of games - I play 0.6 games per day when you figure that I’ve played for almost exactly a year and have played about 200 games. This drove me to write the second script.
The second script I wrote gives the average number of games played per day, figured over a 30 day period. So from May 25 to today, June 24th, I sum up the number of games and divide by 30. The same goes for May 24th to June 23rd, etc. And this 30 Day Graph indicates that I reached a peak of 1.5 games per day in February/March, but have since declined to only 0.3 games per day!
Which reveals my actual point… I need to play more often in order to improve… so I’ve taken a vow to get this number back up to a steady 1.5 or higher! Playing 2 games at lunch time isn’t impossible and even if I don’t play on any given weekend my average should improve!
I wonder how this will correlate with my rating increase velocity? Time will tell … but my focus on the opening may be helped through playing more often!