One of my biggest chess improvement goals this year is to simply play a lot more OTB classical tournament games.

My previous counts are:

2023 - 16 games

2022 - 8 games

2021 - 8 games

2020 - 0 games

2019 - 9 games

I haven't played a lot previously, mostly due to personal or career distractions but I believe this year that will change.

As testament to my motivation, I have already signed up for a new chess club playing in my national league which should be good for at least 9-12 games. The remaining 40 games can be covered by around playing around 6-8 6-round tournament games. Ambitious, but achievable imho.

What could go wrong is a sudden change in my personal life or career that would necessitate I step back from chess (90%) or a loss in motivation (10%)

I will only be betting on myself (YES) on this market and will resolve this as soon I either complete the 50 games, or it becomes clear to me that I won't.

I should also mention that my Manifold failure rate when making personal chess goal questions is 100% but I'm determined to not give my doubters the satisfaction of being right again.

If this gets some traction I'll post a spreadsheet tracking my OTB participation in the comments