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Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
universityofpawns wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
universityofpawns wrote:

 https://www.365chess.com/players/Ludmil_Tsvetkov

okay, I found a record of some of your games, looks like you play at expert level, but not GM

Do you also see the year: 2004?

That makes precisely 13 years from now.

But that would mean you have not played tournament chess in 13 years??? and you are stronger now with no record of any games, okay....lol.

That was my rating with 1 daily hour of chess.

Today, at least for the past 5 years, I have been doing 16 daily hours.

Maybe you should take a calculator and compute the difference.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
hitthepin wrote:
Just remember, University, everything you say here will be replied to be Lyudmil in a retort. I hope he gives a reply to this very post. Not

I try to figure out what a retort is.

I will not be overwhelmed by the Chess.com patzers, of course. happy.png 

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov

Read my last post on Smerdon's blog, to know more about the concepts in my book.

breakingbad12
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breakingbad12

I'm feeling sorry for him. Such a delusional troll trying to sell his low rated book.

coldgoat

i once saw a man throw a feather out of the window

Ashvapathi

Lyudmil,

to me, I am assuming that your claims are indeed true and you have found some new ideas about chess and written book about them. I am willing to believe that part. 

The problem for me is your claims about your chess proficiency where you easily defeat all engines and even strong players. Yet, you are not willing to play a single game to show just how strong you really are. So, due to lack of proof, this particular claim has to be dismissed. But, making such claims without a proof to backup hurts your credibility. So, I personally think that there is no need for you to make such grandiose claims of defeating all engines and players. You don't have to be high rated to come up with a good idea. But, if you do claim to be defeating all players and engines, then you have to back it up with some proof by playing some games. 

JoshG354

"I am the best but I will not play because no one is on my level"

 

Your a clown.  Maybe I should create fake PGNs or run Stockfish on my old nokia brick phone from 2000 and beat it.

FBloggs
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:

That is the old way: in the future, people will exclusively play from their homes, and their ratings will exclusively be calculated on the analysis they provide.

I have already started to excel here.

(But I do promise that one day I will start playing competitively again and will thrash everyone, at least Komodo, currently simply I have more important things to do)

Playing competitively is the old way, the current way and unless people stop playing chess altogether, the future way. You believe that in the future, ratings will be exclusively calculated on analysis provided by people rather than on games actually played. That would be your perfect world since you analyze but don't play. But who else would bother analyzing a game nobody plays anymore? What would be the point of the analysis?
You really seem to believe that making a claim settles an issue. You claim that you "will start playing competitively again and will thrash everyone" and expect to be taken seriously. The preface to your book makes no mention of any title you hold. You have made several references to David Smerdon's comments about your book. He said that you're "a 2100 player who has been inactive from tournaments for more than a decade." Clearly, you've never held a FIDE title. I don't know if you've claimed to hold the title of national master but if you have, I doubt you've provided evidence of it. But still you throw out the claim that you will thrash everyone (presumably everyone includes the world champion and other top tier GMs). It's astonishing that you would expect anyone to take that at face value.
Yes, I know you believe that you have greatly increased your playing strength by spending many hours per day studying and analyzing the past several years. But you have no way of knowing that because you don't play competitively. You believe it but you have avoided putting it to the test. It's easier to simply believe it and announce it. And you cannot be proven wrong. But it doesn't matter because nobody else believes it.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
hitthepin wrote:
Excuse me if I find it really difficult to think that I’ll be learning anything from you. You’ve given us several pieces of analysis. They may be true. But have we LEARNED anything from them. No. Ask anyone on this thread whether they’ve learned anything from your diagrams that you’ve shown us. Guess what they’ll say. I don’t care whether you’re good or not, you definitely are not a good teacher.

It is much easier for me to offer you mates in 2.

Without effort from your part, you will not learn anything.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
breakingbad12 wrote:

I'm feeling sorry for him. Such a delusional troll trying to sell his low rated book.

No need to be sorry for me, I am doing OK and my book is also doing fine.

Of course, I would sell much more, if I did something along the lines of 'Tactics Time': collect some 3-move puzzles from here and there and publish. No need to check with engines, no need to dive deep into variations, no need to possess any outstanding positional knowledge. And the book sells.

It is very well known advanced players are much fewer than lower-rated ones. You want easy puzzles, I understand that, while I am offering higher knowledge.

But, if I went and won a match now against Komodo, you would immediately by my books, without being able to understand them, only because...

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
Ashvapathi wrote:

Lyudmil,

to me, I am assuming that your claims are indeed true and you have found some new ideas about chess and written book about them. I am willing to believe that part. 

The problem for me is your claims about your chess proficiency where you easily defeat all engines and even strong players. Yet, you are not willing to play a single game to show just how strong you really are. So, due to lack of proof, this particular claim has to be dismissed. But, making such claims without a proof to backup hurts your credibility. So, I personally think that there is no need for you to make such grandiose claims of defeating all engines and players. You don't have to be high rated to come up with a good idea. But, if you do claim to be defeating all players and engines, then you have to back it up with some proof by playing some games. 

One and the same thing all over again...

I will play some games, at some point, I just have more important things to do now.

You can not write books, publish and plays chess at the same time, and especially find ground-breaking new ideas.

The last one requires much more concentration. It is a matter of concentration, now I am concentrated on this stuff, which requires quiet and laboratory conditions. Tomorrow, I will have another task to fulfill...

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
JoshG354 wrote:

"I am the best but I will not play because no one is on my level"

 

Your a clown.  Maybe I should create fake PGNs or run Stockfish on my old nokia brick phone from 2000 and beat it.

Just do it.

But you will be unable to, as I will easily prove SF recognises all of your moves. While it does not mine.

And everybody can check and see this is true, that is, the games are REAL.

You can not understand me: I am a man of deep meditation, you are a man of superficial feelings.

 

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
FBloggs wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:

That is the old way: in the future, people will exclusively play from their homes, and their ratings will exclusively be calculated on the analysis they provide.

I have already started to excel here.

(But I do promise that one day I will start playing competitively again and will thrash everyone, at least Komodo, currently simply I have more important things to do)

Playing competitively is the old way, the current way and unless people stop playing chess altogether, the future way. You believe that in the future, ratings will be exclusively calculated on analysis provided by people rather than on games actually played. That would be your perfect world since you analyze but don't play. But who else would bother analyzing a game nobody plays anymore? What would be the point of the analysis?
You really seem to believe that making a claim settles an issue. You claim that you "will start playing competitively again and will thrash everyone" and expect to be taken seriously. The preface to your book makes no mention of any title you hold. You have made several references to David Smerdon's comments about your book. He said that you're "a 2100 player who has been inactive from tournaments for more than a decade." Clearly, you've never held a FIDE title. I don't know if you've claimed to hold the title of national master but if you have, I doubt you've provided evidence of it. But still you throw out the claim that you will thrash everyone (presumably everyone includes the world champion and other top tier GMs). It's astonishing that you would expect anyone to take that at face value.
Yes, I know you believe that you have greatly increased your playing strength by spending many hours per day studying and analyzing the past several years. But you have no way of knowing that because you don't play competitively. You believe it but you have avoided putting it to the test. It's easier to simply believe it and announce it. And you cannot be proven wrong. But it doesn't matter because nobody else believes it.

I have been Bulgarian candidate master since 1998.

It takes some games to make a rating and get a title, while I have played maybe 30 FIDE rated games or so. You can not make much rating from 30 games, can you.

I started at 2000 FIDE and got to over 2100 in 30 games.

My first Bulgarian rating was 2000 or so again, and I got to over 2200 by playing more than 100 Bulgarian rated games. As said, it takes time and games played to get higher rating and a significant title.

Whatever you claim, 'The Secret of Chess' contains the highest chess knowledge available as of today, higher than what Silman could teach you, higher than what most chess academies could teach you and higher than what Kasparov could teach you.

It takes my meditative mold of thought to conceptualise that, standard way of OTB play + writing can not bring you that, simply because the level of concentration is much lower. But you will not fully understand that one way or another.

Sneakmasterflex

Boy this guy is so full of BS it's starting to come out of my ears just by reading the last few pages. Tsetkov, your credibility is as of now ZERO on the point of beating the best engines. In fact, the best way for you to market your ideas and your book, as I'm sure you know, would be to play a few games and score well against a strong engine in live, demonstrable play. However since you are unwilling to do what would be best for your books sales, it logically proves that you are lying, you are simply here to market your book and as we all know, even negative attention is better than no attention at all, when it comes to selling stuff. Don't feel too bad about lying about beating the best engines though, as I understand about people in the Balkan countries, lying, stealing and generally being dishonest for your own personal gain is ingrained in those cultures and considered somewhat acceptable there. Just take a look at the kind of cleptocracy Putin and his buddies have set up in Russia, for instance. "Russia doesn't have any soldiers in Krim"-- YEAH, sure they don't?! The mentality is that any lie can be propagated if it can't be disproved, and if it can be disproved you can still deny it on an official level.

Give us some pgn here of, let's say 10 wins of yours against SF. Otherwise keep your lying mouth shut. In any case it doesn't even matter, because of the BS you've written about being able to beat engines, without providing any proof, it's likely that most nobody on chess.com will pay for  your book even if it's half decent. Never studied marketing, have you? Well I have and you're doing it the wrong way, marketing your own skill without providing proof, instead of marketing the product only. A BIG JOKE. Topalov would be ashamed of you.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
Sneakmasterflex wrote:

Boy this guy is so full of BS it's starting to come out of my ears just by reading the last few pages. Tsetkov, your credibility is as of now ZERO on the point of beating the best engines. In fact, the best way for you to market your ideas and your book, as I'm sure you know, would be to play a few games and score well against a strong engine in live, demonstrable play. However since you are unwilling to do what would be best for your books sales, it logically proves that you are lying, you are simply here to market your book and as we all know, even negative attention is better than no attention at all, when it comes to selling stuff. Don't feel too bad about lying about beating the best engines though, as I understand about people in the Balkan countries, lying, stealing and generally being dishonest for your own personal gain is ingrained in those cultures and considered somewhat acceptable there. Just take a look at the kind of cleptocracy Putin and his buddies have set up in Russia, for instance. "Russia doesn't have any soldiers in Krim"-- YEAH, sure they don't?! The mentality is that any lie can be propagated if it can't be disproved, and if it can be disproved you can still deny it on an official level.

Give us some pgn here of, let's say 10 wins of yours against SF. Otherwise keep your lying mouth shut. In any case it doesn't even matter, because of the BS you've written about being able to beat engines, without providing any proof, it's likely that most nobody on chess.com will pay for  your book even if it's half decent. Never studied marketing, have you? Well I have and you're doing it the wrong way, marketing your own skill without providing proof, instead of marketing the product only. A BIG JOKE. Topalov would be ashamed of you.

While I fully agree about Putin, I disagree with everything else you said.

Here a game against Komodo 10 using contempt:

 

This was a pawn handicap game and I was using more time due to contempt, but who is able to beat Komodo that easily?

What do you not like about the game?

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov

Btw., Nakamura lost to Komodo with similar setup and much longer TC.

Sneakmasterflex

"Blitz 1min" Hahahahaaaaaa. Did you think for 15 mins every move, computer at 1 min/game?! And what's with the odds? You said you didn't like playing odds.. Full game please, you as black, no odds , G30 at least, you win.PROVIDE FULL GAME  with engine evals and move times.Then I might start trying to believe you. A game where the engine considers itself at -13,16 on move 2 only constitutes proof of you tampering with playing conditions and trying to fool people into believing you own "supremacy".Which makes you seem naive and stupid.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
Sneakmasterflex wrote:

"Blitz 1min" Hahahahaaaaaa. Did you think for 15 mins every move, computer at 1 min/game?! And what's with the odds? You said you didn't like playing odds.. Full game please, you as black, no odds , G30 at least, you win.PROVIDE FULL GAME  with engine evals and move times.Then I might start trying to believe you. A game where the engine considers itself at -13,16 on move 2 only constitutes proof of you tampering with playing conditions and trying to fool people into believing you own "supremacy".Which makes you seem naive and stupid.

Try to beat Komodo with these conditions and then post BS.

So, you consider yourself stronger than Nakamura?

Do you know what contempt means? When contempt is set, the engine evaluates 0.0 scores with the contempt value, for example 50cps, hence the distorted evaluation. It is more difficult to beat an engine with contempt than without contempt.

But all this does not matter very much, it is as if I am talking to the wind.

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov
hitthepin wrote:
We don’t know he played any of the games displayed here. We also don’t know who his opponent was. Komodo plays differently depending on the hardware it’s ruining on. Or, yeah, he could be making it up. There is no proof this is the game he says it is.

And there is no proof you are the poster you claim to be.