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hitthepin
Jan 13, 2018
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#41
We will see how long Lyudmil will run...
hitthepin wrote:
We will see how long Lyudmil will run...
Well, as long as he’s running away from us, I don’t mind.
What sucks is that I'm not even joking...
Jan 13, 2018
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#45
I have been a sports athlete, a sports coach, a student of Multivariable Calculus, an investor in the Stock Markets, etc., and EVERY one of those areas has books that claim to know "the secret" to succeeding in them. And EVERY one I was foolish enough to read was garbage!
In every serious field, it takes HARD WORK to succeed and THAT is the only "secret."
MickinMD wrote:
I have been a sports athlete, a sports coach, a student of Multivariable Calculus, an investor in the Stock Markets, etc., and EVERY one of those areas has books that claim to know "the secret" to succeeding in them. And EVERY one I was foolish enough to read was garbage!
In every serious field, it takes HARD WORK to succeed and THAT is the only "secret."
Interesting. Thoughts on gwtr.com?
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
prusswan wrote:
Playing specifically to beat specific engines (assuming this claim is even true) is hardly applicable since engines have an insurmontable advantage in tactics - top GMs have already demonstrated the likely outcome.
I am NOT a random top GM, you should be aware of that:
I think it would be interesting to see you play a top GM and have Chess.com broadcast the match. Wouldn't that validate your claims?
hitthepin wrote:
Failure.
You are wrong, a saw a few 1300, 1400 rated people bought it. In fact more than 100 millions of people play chess and at least 50% are 1300, 1400 or less and they might try something with good ads.
took about 3 seconds (only 23 depth)
hitthepin wrote:
If you want to post evidence, do on your forum. This forum is not meant for that.
Why did you open it then, if you don't want a discussion?
MickinMD wrote:
I have been a sports athlete, a sports coach, a student of Multivariable Calculus, an investor in the Stock Markets, etc., and EVERY one of those areas has books that claim to know "the secret" to succeeding in them. And EVERY one I was foolish enough to read was garbage!
In every serious field, it takes HARD WORK to succeed and THAT is the only "secret."
It's a pity you did not read the only one that really deserves reading:
Hard work, that is what I EXCEL at.
'The Secret of Chess' is the product of my hard work.
GWTR wrote:
MickinMD wrote:
I have been a sports athlete, a sports coach, a student of Multivariable Calculus, an investor in the Stock Markets, etc., and EVERY one of those areas has books that claim to know "the secret" to succeeding in them. And EVERY one I was foolish enough to read was garbage!
In every serious field, it takes HARD WORK to succeed and THAT is the only "secret."
Interesting. Thoughts on gwtr.com?
Are you part of that company?
I might drop you a mail at info@gwtr.com 
hitthepin wrote:
He won’t, and we all know it.
I will, in the future.
CheesyPuns wrote:
took about 3 seconds (only 23 depth)
Yeah, but my game was with 1 sec. per move for SF.
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
hitthepin wrote:
He won’t, and we all know it.
I will, in the future.
When?
Are there any rated players on chess.com that would like to challenge Mr. Tsvetkov? I think a lot of people would like to see this.
And so, despite the somewhat outrageous claims and poor written English of the introduction, I pushed on, hoping to find at least one or two useful training nuggets.
ironically, Amazon classifies it under ‘Humour and Entertainment’)
I do get the impression from reading the book that chess programmers comprise Tsvetkov’s primary audience.
To be honest, I feel that Tsvetkov could be a little biased here by his large experience playing against engines
From a regular reader’s perspective, the tables and precise values aren’t very helpful.
If I had written this book and got this rather poor review I would be disappointed to say the least