GM Within 6 months?

For the most part I do agree with you but I am very competitive and always have been. And about 80% of the things I have undertaken I have achieved or at the very least did exceptionally well when the goal was over.

For instance, I do have a channel where I made a bet with a billionaire friend of mine "on Jun 22, 2018" that I couldn't become a billionaire within 15 years. And this was a channel that did get started. But when I got talking about some finance maneuvers, that millionaires and billionaires were also using, but just wasn't public knowledge too much. Maybe unless you have a Forbes or Wall Street Journal, or Bloomberg subscription you probably would have any idea. But anyway, YouTube wanted to give some strikes for it so the channel has moved to a private membership website that I created where we can all talk freely and openly.

Sorry, that was a long digression, but there is much more too. I have lived in Las Vegas, for the past 33 years, because I was invited here to be on a Blackjack Card counting team. We ended up getting pretty popular, with a short documentary made about us, and I believe it was published on PBS not sure.

But yea, I have an interesting life and a lot of people said I should write an autobiography and don't want to do that. So I decided to put a lot about me up on YouTube and that's why the 14 channels.

Anyway, I have digressed long enough and I'm sure no one is interested anyway. I'll just get back to work I guess.

first, leave your lame excuses at the door. its true, you cant get enough games in order to get the norms required for GM in 6 months. but you can get a similar GM-level online rating, so prove us wrong by doing that.

second, i am certain you are 'the toast of the town' on all other chess websites except for this one. GMs on all the other sites are chomping at the bit to be friends with you because they intuitively recognize your brilliance. chess.com is the outlier, filled with skeptical fools who can't recognize your amazing intellect.

third, in a private DM to you I offered to play a high stakes game with you OTB after you have given yourself 6 months of prep time. you say you are a former professional gambler so this should be right in your wheelhouse. i just wanted to let you know my offer stands. but don't even think of trying to use your anal beads...

You do know that playing activates different parts of the brain than analysis does. Recalling order of operations and actively making the decisions, visualising under time pressure. Games need to be played regularly to engrain the process. Not just analysis. How many games against the computer or a person do you play per day at the moment?

Well not so much here, but the other two sites I'm on about average 10 maybe right now. Remember, I have other commitments too to get done throughout the day. Not just sitting and playing chess 24/7. I don't make a living doing this.

10 games a day depending on time controls is a good amount to play to improve, especially when including analysis. No idea about the rate of improvement. But it is something.

Yea, I'm happy with the progress and of course the help along the way. I have my own theories when I'm studying and coming up with ideas so it is nice to have someone "experienced" to bounce those ideas off of.

Wow

Remindme! 6 months

Will do!

Oh I am. Come Jun 22, 2024 I going to start challenging GM's to a game and I will win at least one game before the end of Jun (that's only 8 days to accomplish the goal.) I only have two GM friends and they won't take me up on it for the simple fact that I've put out that I have two GM friends and they don't want that to be a negative thing for them because of my "mostly" unpopularity here on chess.com which I totally understand. No hard feelings, were still friends.

But "IF" there will be any GM's, come Jun, that want to take me up on the challenge then just let me know in message. I do want it to be verifiable so the game must be live on YouTube on my channel. I have changed my channel name back to "62-Polymath" and just made a new channel for the one that was there specifically for this purpose.

I mean I understand if no GM's want to take up the offer just because I'm a new person to the scene, looking to build my channel, not known in the chess community "expect for a negative vibe" I do understand. But the challenge is there for any takers.

And don't bother contacting if you are not a GM because after all that is the whole point of the challenge. I can't officially gain the GM title within 6 months "that has already been hashed out numerous times here" but I can at least prove that I have gotten good enough to beat a GM after 6 months of studying. That much IS possible. And not just from me but from anyone that is dedicated enough.

So get studying all you beginners.

I wonder how many months of study will you need to realize how impossible it is. If you are a fast learner, maybe just a couple.

I already know it's going to be very difficult. Impossible? No. I mean I could just get lucky and the GM misses and important move or something and that's all I'd need. So yea, anything can happen no one really knows.

But me beating a GM is going to fall under the same situation as becoming a GM in 6 months and that is "yes it's going to be impossible because no GM is going to bother even playing me to begin with" and that's fine. I just figured I'd put it out there just in case there was one feeling adventurous and up for a challenge.

Not that I'm the challenge. Just playing me is the challenge with all the negativity, a new player, doesn't really see the point in playing me, etc which will more than likely be the case. And I can put myself in there shoes and see their point of view. So yea, no need to really worry because the match will probably never happen because of all this.

But, the challenge is out there.

Well you can always pay a streamer who accepts pay to play challenges on Twitch, provided they are a GM, but obviously will be tough and likely wasting your money. Can also play in chess.com arenas and get drawn against GMs. But obviously time controls make the difference in blundering for non experienced players.

Ben Finegold plays against viewers multiple times per week for hours at a time. You don't even need to donate, you just send a challenge on chess.com during the stream and he will accept.

"No GMs are going to be willing to play me" is not a valid excuse.

It's called delusion of grandeur. You can get help. You can get out of this.

Considering how you lose to a 1200 bot here:
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/95420809?tab=review&move=55I think your other games were made using an engine.
You don't even capitalize on the bot's blunders, fail to see threats, etc.
The review suggests you're 200 elo
So yeah. It's not like you're at a 2000+ level without much practice. You're a beginner that will never ever be a master, especially considering the age at which you are starting.

Yep. I only checked the games briefly but it looks like cheating of some description. Either engine use or he's getting a stronger player to play on his account.

Thanks GMegasDoux,

That I can do and it's an excellent idea. As far as wasting my money there's not really a worry there. Besides I'll chalk it up to a learning experience, a lesson, etc. So money well spent to test out my 6 months of studying.

Thanks for your answer and much appreciated. This is a MUCH better route and will probably draw more attention to chess if we can market it well enough. I'm always looking for a money angle, which is why I don't have a problem paying for a game. Money well spent in my little adventure here.

This is another reason I'm getting into chess as a complete beginner. Both the help promote chess more and to show older, retired people that you can become a good player at chess with some good studying, practicing, etc.

Hopefully it will catch on with the older generation by seeing me doing it and this is why I started my channel for. Well not specifically for chess but for older people learning a new skillset, career, etc. Doesn't have to be chess can be anything. Learning day is MUCH easier and quicker than it was 40, 50 years ago for us.

My goal is just to get as good as I possible can within 6 months. There's no limit on that goal. It's just were ever I land come June.

You are giving yourself an extra month there. You first posted this thread on November 1st.

So listing the months: November, December, January, February, March, April is six full months. You should be talking in terms of come May, not in terms of come June, because by June 2024, you will have had 7 months to study, not six.