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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin
How much more competitive is chess now with the internet? You can probably play as many games in 1 week as they used to in a year.
The internet's chief benefit is the proliferation of knowledge. You can play a lot more blitz and 30-minute chess these days, but it's not like you can play 50 slow games a week. Engines, databases, resources like ChessTempo, and so on.