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Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

With my pattern recognition I am beating SF.

With your some 1600 players.

There is a BIG distinction, don't you really see it?

With your pattern recognition you're beating Stockfish by exploiting its weaknesses and playing it in massively skewed conditions, and there is no substantial proof that you have even beaten Stockfish.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
CheesyPuns wrote:

quadrupedally defended backwards maker octopus blocking a doubly backwards pawn? 

This is simply won for white.

This does not make any sense, my terms are very correct and extremely well-thought, as well as with high statistical relevance.

A twice defended minor outpost on d6/e6 might occur in 1 out of 500 games or so.

A knight outpost on d6/e6, as in your case, defended by 2 pawns, one knight and a queen will occur only once out of 30 million games or so.

You understand now why my terms make much sense, and your not.

But at least, you started learning my jargon, congratulations.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
Destroyer942 wrote:
I'll bet Tsvetkov can't beat Stockfish in an open position.

I can, but with more time.

Top engines make many mistakes also in open positions, but it is much more difficult to make use of those.

stewardjandstewardj
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

GWTR
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Useful and modern sound like good adjectives.

 

chesster3145
GWTR wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Useful and modern sound like good adjectives.

 

But they both come with a catch: the book is useful, but only for chess programmers, and the book is modern, but flawed.

chesster3145
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
CheesyPuns wrote:

quadrupedally defended backwards maker octopus blocking a doubly backwards pawn? 

This is simply won for white.

This does not make any sense, my terms are very correct and extremely well-thought, as well as with high statistical relevance.

A twice defended minor outpost on d6/e6 might occur in 1 out of 500 games or so.

A knight outpost on d6/e6, as in your case, defended by 2 pawns, one knight and a queen will occur only once out of 30 million games or so.

You understand now why my terms make much sense, and your not.

But at least, you started learning my jargon, congratulations.

Much sense. Very wow.

Clearly @CheesyPuns' example isn't supposed to be serious, but it does demonstrate that your jargon is dumb. I would say something like this instead: the Nd6 is a monster, the Bc8 is worth absolutely nothing (or less than nothing since it blocks a Ra8), and White has a massive space advantage.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Just make sense of that: an IM is NOT familiar with a significant number of chess patterns.

Can you?

I doubt it very much, but can you?

What does that mean?

 

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
chesster3145 wrote:
GWTR wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Useful and modern sound like good adjectives.

 

But they both come with a catch: the book is useful, but only for chess programmers, and the book is modern, but flawed.

Then why did he give it a 4 out of 5?

Such a word like flawed simply does not exist in the text.

Show where the IM used this word, otherwise apologise.

I will WIN that battle, remember well.

Because my book is really the MOST ADVANCED chess knowledge book ever written.

So far, all 3 available reviews are positive:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-secret-of-chess

https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

https://www.welshccf.org.uk/article/325

 

You have very strong titled players and correspondence players in the mix.

So, what actually are you complaining about?

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
CheesyPuns wrote:

quadrupedally defended backwards maker octopus blocking a doubly backwards pawn? 

This is simply won for white.

This does not make any sense, my terms are very correct and extremely well-thought, as well as with high statistical relevance.

A twice defended minor outpost on d6/e6 might occur in 1 out of 500 games or so.

A knight outpost on d6/e6, as in your case, defended by 2 pawns, one knight and a queen will occur only once out of 30 million games or so.

You understand now why my terms make much sense, and your not.

But at least, you started learning my jargon, congratulations.

Much sense. Very wow.

Clearly @CheesyPuns' example isn't supposed to be serious, but it does demonstrate that your jargon is dumb. I would say something like this instead: the Nd6 is a monster, the Bc8 is worth absolutely nothing (or less than nothing since it blocks a Ra8), and White has a massive space advantage.

This simple logic might work here, as the position is obviously won, but not in more complicated positions, where the balance is more refined.

That is why you need precise terms and precise definitions, which my book offers.

 

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov

Concerning the closed position terms present in 'The Secret of Chess', why would anyone think you could find a better manual on the KID and similar closed setups:

 

The closed position concepts the book formulates are very useful for real game play, indeed.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov

Of course, SF is weak, but that does not make the terms less relevant.

stewardjandstewardj
GWTR wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Useful and modern sound like good adjectives.

 

Yes, they ARE good adjectives, but I am not, nor is Smurden, nor Welling, using the adjetives as positive as Lyudmil wants to believe it was used. He wants to BELIEVE that he is the best chess player in the world. He wants to BELIEVE that his book is the most revolutionary book to ever exist. The truth that actually stands, no one knows, and no one will know for a while. Lyudmil is the boy that cried wolf. No one will believe Lyudmil until he gives proof that the wolf (or in this case, his claims) exists.

stewardjandstewardj
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
GWTR wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Useful and modern sound like good adjectives.

 

But they both come with a catch: the book is useful, but only for chess programmers, and the book is modern, but flawed.

Then why did he give it a 4 out of 5?

Such a word like flawed simply does not exist in the text.

Show where the IM used this word, otherwise apologise.

I will WIN that battle, remember well.

Because my book is really the MOST ADVANCED chess knowledge book ever written.

So far, all 3 available reviews are positive:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-secret-of-chess

https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

https://www.welshccf.org.uk/article/325

 

You have very strong titled players and correspondence players in the mix.

So, what actually are you complaining about?

3 positive reviews, but all 3 reviews are only mildly positive, and were all anywhere from slightly to extremely nuanced.

chesster3145
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:

Concerning the closed position terms present in 'The Secret of Chess', why would anyone think you could find a better manual on the KID and similar closed setups:

 

The closed position concepts the book formulates are very useful for real game play, indeed.

Putting that aside, the move times in your diagram prove this wasn’t a 2 2 game.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
GWTR wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:

Both reviews you have given, from Smurden and from Welling, both say that the book has lots of modern ideas/positions. They also say that your English is bad in the book. Regardless of whether you are legit or not, I urge you to try and focus more on your use of English in the next book you are writing.

As of being legit, you seem to make very good books for the rating you have. However, both reviewers ALSO never say you could have beat StockFish. They say that you use chess engines. I'm not sure what they mean, but they never even once hint that you are better at chess than StockFish, nor that you are even GM quality.

While your claims are not proven to be legit yet, nor your claims about your book, your book itself seems to be pretty legit. Welling is surprised that even though you have a low rating of a "candidate master", you have proven that you are much more knowledgeable at chess than a CM.

Lyudmil, the world, including me, wants more proof than your books. You have studied plenty of chess, but unless you play chess games, you can not do anything with this other than write more books. You must play rated games and/or an official game against chess engines no one has beaten before if you want to prove how amazingly good you are at chess; I still remain unconvinced you beat SF.

I would dispute whether Lyudmil is actually as knowledgable about chess as he says he is. Again, most of the positions he’s posted on the site feature main ideas that are either well-known or ideas any imaginative 1500 could find. This includes the Qf6+ sacrifice, and most of his terms are either well-known by other names or intuitively understood by chess players in general.

You understand too many things intuitively.

Could you also understand, intuitively, that your intuition might be sucking?

 

Can you understand, intuitively, that sometimes intuition is enough? You don’t need a pseudo-intellectual term for the f7-pawn in your Qf6+ example: you can simply be happy that the f6-square and f7-pawn are weak forever.

He seriously created a name for the f7 pawn? That is definitely pseudo-intellectual. Now that I know of the crazy names you are making, that list you were mentioning about is not so credential to me. You are just trying to make your list bigger. Some of the new terms in your list are legit, but I don't know how many I want to believe are legit

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Useful and modern sound like good adjectives.

 

Yes, they ARE good adjectives, but I am not, nor is Smurden, nor Welling, using the adjetives as positive as Lyudmil wants to believe it was used. He wants to BELIEVE that he is the best chess player in the world. He wants to BELIEVE that his book is the most revolutionary book to ever exist. The truth that actually stands, no one knows, and no one will know for a while. Lyudmil is the boy that cried wolf. No one will believe Lyudmil until he gives proof that the wolf (or in this case, his claims) exists.

You will NOT be convinced even after 101 positive reviews, so what do you actually expect from me?

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:

Concerning the closed position terms present in 'The Secret of Chess', why would anyone think you could find a better manual on the KID and similar closed setups:

 

The closed position concepts the book formulates are very useful for real game play, indeed.

Putting that aside, the move times in your diagram prove this wasn’t a 2 2 game.

I have had at least 5+3.

SF probably 2+2.

It is just the header that says 2+2.

But are not you aware no one can play top engines at blitz?

GWTR
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
GWTR wrote:
stewardjandstewardj wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:

I don't care at all.

Let me repost what strong players say: https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess

He said it's usefule. He never said that you are the best chess player in the world. He never said your book was the best in the world. And all he commented on your list is that it is modern

Useful and modern sound like good adjectives.

 

Yes, they ARE good adjectives, but I am not, nor is Smurden, nor Welling, using the adjetives as positive as Lyudmil wants to believe it was used. He wants to BELIEVE that he is the best chess player in the world. He wants to BELIEVE that his book is the most revolutionary book to ever exist. The truth that actually stands, no one knows, and no one will know for a while. Lyudmil is the boy that cried wolf. No one will believe Lyudmil until he gives proof that the wolf (or in this case, his claims) exists.

Too bad there is no way for YOU (and others) to give the book a fair reading for yourself

http://www.secretofchess.com/pages/view-excerpts

Maybe we can find a way to change that.  

 

chesster3145
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
chesster3145 wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:

Concerning the closed position terms present in 'The Secret of Chess', why would anyone think you could find a better manual on the KID and similar closed setups:

 

The closed position concepts the book formulates are very useful for real game play, indeed.

Putting that aside, the move times in your diagram prove this wasn’t a 2 2 game.

I have had at least 5+3.

SF probably 2+2.

It is just the header that says 2+2.

But are not you aware no one can play top engines at blitz?

You’ve already said no one can play top engines with a limited time control. That means no time control at all - another severe handicap for SF.

 

hitthepin
Guys, I made this thread so we could share our opinions-not argue.