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Offline SmoothOper
 Post subject: How many games before you die?
Post #1 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:57 am 
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Over a players lifetime, how many games can one expect to play? I am guessing I have 10,000 games in me at my rate of one per day.
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Offline DrStraw
 Post subject: Re: How many games before you die?
Post #2 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:04 am 
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I have no idea how many I have played in the last 40 years. It would have to be well in excess of 25,000. And I plan on living another 40 years.

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Offline Bantari
 Post subject: Re: How many games before you die?
Post #3 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:03 pm 
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DrStraw wrote:
I have no idea how many I have played in the last 40 years. It would have to be well in excess of 25,000. And I plan on living another 40 years.


Hmm, that's active. Average of almost 6 games per day, every day, for the whole 40 years.

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Offline Bantari
 Post subject: Re: How many games before you die?
Post #4 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:06 pm 
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I guess it depends how active one is, how many games per day one plays.
Assuming your Go-lifespan is 80 years, to be very generous, it makes for not quite 30,000 days. Sounds reasonable?

I guess, on average, most people play less than once per day... especially if they treat Go seriously. So maybe 10,000 sounds just right.

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 Post subject: Re: How many games before you die?
Post #5 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:09 pm 
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Bantari wrote:
DrStraw wrote:
I have no idea how many I have played in the last 40 years. It would have to be well in excess of 25,000. And I plan on living another 40 years.


Hmm, that's active. Average of almost 6 games per day, every day, for the whole 40 years.


Actually, 625 per year, 1.7 per day.

For the first few years I was playing at least one game a day, often more. And in the early days of internet go I was playing as many as 10 fast games a day. And right now I have 9 active games on DGS.

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Offline Bantari
 Post subject: Re: How many games before you die?
Post #6 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:17 pm 
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DrStraw wrote:
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DrStraw wrote:
I have no idea how many I have played in the last 40 years. It would have to be well in excess of 25,000. And I plan on living another 40 years.


Hmm, that's active. Average of almost 6 games per day, every day, for the whole 40 years.


Actually, 625 per year, 1.7 per day.

For the first few years I was playing at least one game a day, often more. And in the early days of internet go I was playing as many as 10 fast games a day. And right now I have 9 active games on DGS.


Yeah, I know what you mean. I used to do 10+ games a day as well, way back when, even in a club setting, over a beer (do those count?) But I had long long breaks too, so I am probably maybe hitting 2K now or so, if i am lucky, over the past 30 years... Far behind you, dude. ;)

These days - its maybe 2 games per week, when i feel especially spry.

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Offline ez4u
 Post subject: Re: How many games before you die?
Post #7 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:38 pm 
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SmoothOper wrote:
Over a players lifetime, how many games can one expect to play?...

Not enough! :grumpy:

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Offline dfunkt
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Post #8 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:14 pm 
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I don't count my games. Why bother?
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Offline TheBigH
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Post #9 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:24 pm 
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I don't plan to ever die. So far, so good.

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