Games in Progress

There seems to be a few camps on chess.com with regard to the number of concurrent games; those that enjoy a few games at a time, players that have dozens or hundreds going at once, and the middlers, say 20 or so. It seems that those at the ends of the spectrum are playing two different types of chess: A complete cohesive game where prior moves are in memory and at least resembles OTB, and chess puzzles (unless you have photographic memory). 

It seems like the site could benefit by enabling a player to further restrict opponents in challenges and tourneys by selecting maximum games in progress. Not only would players with similar motive and style find each other, tourneys could move along to completion while still giving the flexibility of 3 dpm.

That depends entirely on the person playing the game.

I don't think I could do literally hundreds of games, but I was up to around 17 a little while ago and didn't have too much difficulty remembering my previous analysis and ideas.

One thing I have taken do doing though is instead of using the Analysis board, I'll do it using software  (not an engine, just software).  That way not only can I annotate my analysis and all the variations I checked, but I can save it as a PGN.   Later on, if for whatever reason (aka I'm playing drunk again) I can't remember what I thought about a specific position, I can always go look it up.  

True story... I started doing this just recently after blundering a pawn-up rook-pawn endgame I was trying to win while intoxicated .

On a related note to Games in Progress - I've just noticed that winning at least 10% of your games is a tournament entry requirement. The more filters in place to select the right opponent, the fewer members will actually qualify.

The site might not benefit but some members would.

The site advertises "Unlimited # of simultaneous games!" here  http://www.chess.com/play/

Restricting participation due to playing many games may mean some will spend time on other sites rather than this one.

On the other hand Time/move average can be used to filter tournament participants but is not often used. An additional, not often used, restriction based on simultaneous games may not have a detrimental effect on players with many simultaneous games.

Correspondence Chess is just that.  Unfortunately, people don't have time to play games all the time.  I am disabled so I can.

The solution for you it sounds like is LONG live games.  45 to 60 minutes.  The clock does add some additional pressure.  But clocks in OTB games too.

Eric (CEO of Chess.com) in one of his broadcasts promised Live tournaments in the future.  I  look forward to more OTB like tournaments online.

In the meantime, If you don't mind the cost of the membership, you can study between games.  Most of us (me included) spend too much time playing and not enough time studying.  

But if you like correspondence (turn based) chess, I would never accept challenges with time control more than 2 days.  And the notes area you can keep notes of what you were working on if your memory in not jogged by seeing the position on the board.

I find myself using the back button a lot.  I got back 4 to 8 moves then step through them to jog my memory.

Some thoughts I hope that help some ...