cigoLogic wrote:
What is the problem with ICCF?
And which country and city are you located in?
Copenhagen. 
The Secret of Chess
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h4_explosive wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
Anyone having positive score against latest SF?
of course I have. but I will provide no prove whatsoever. does that ring a bell?
How much positive it is?
I AM posting my games, why don't you do the same with yours?
Btw., thinking my games are fake is simply idiotic, what engine plays like that, if I had used engine suggestions?
I mean, what engine would enter this position, where SF 9 evaluates it with 150 centipawns black advantage?
It simply does not make sense I have used engine assistance to get there, does it?
Or, even, if I have picked up the better moves, why should I have chosen such a dismal-looking variation?
It does not make sense, does it?
Any person with a bit of chess brain will immediately see this is just a normal human-approach game that looks quite realistic.
ae_carter wrote:
lol this joker with a 1400 rating wrote a book.
Get the hell out of here.
Thank you, AeCarter.
Here some reviews of my book, if you still have not familiarised yourself with those:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-secret-of-chess
https://www.chess.com/blog/Swordfish55/review-the-secret-of-chess
http://www.secretofchess.com/files/17772/ckfinder/images/Review%20on%20The%20Secret%20of%20Chess.pdf
As you see, strong titled players have generally good opinion of the book.
So, the knowledge is sound, why should you shun away from it?
As I am very busy, I will have more substantial feedback in the evening.
I guess a very good book, full of innovations can not fail in the long run, can it?
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov hat geschrieben:
Die_Schanze wrote:
At least you could prove your strenght in correspondence chess. There you have your best conditions. But i belive that the strongest players there are aware about the strengths and weaknesses of their used engines, so they use them the best way possible. And therefore they are equal strong or even stronger than Lyudmil Tsvetkov.
Who knows, Die Schanze, who knows?
Hardware should make a big distinction there too, so again unequal conditions, no matter if you have the stronger or weaker hardware.
OTB is most fair, but also most demanding.
Okay, i understand that there will be some EXCUSE everytime one suggests that you should really play games under checkable conditions to prove your assertions. Therefore the main critique will be there forever, so it doesn't become easier to sell books...
Damn Vicious cirle!
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
cigoLogic wrote:
What is the problem with ICCF?
And which country and city are you located in?
Copenhagen.
If you are seriously located in Copenhagen, then your excuses about not being close to an airport are not the best. Half an hour by taxi and you'll be in the airport.
Feb 8, 2018
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Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
They asked Botvinnik once, 'Have you ever played a blitz game?' - 'I did once, it was on a train back in 1932', was the concise answer.
But then, Botvinnik played quality chess, which can not be said of all those blitz and rapid games.
Online too.
So, you want to drag me into the abyss of low-quality chess.
All the games you're posting are blitz games, according to the PGNs.
If you think so lowly of blitz, why are you playing it against the engine?
True.
Feb 8, 2018
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He has a very good excuse for not playing. It seems he is only able to play at a 3500 elo level when he's at home...next to his PC. I don't know why that would be the case...
Feb 8, 2018
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pretzel2 wrote:
hmm myabe sitting at home next to your pc is the secret of chess?
Lol.
Die_Schanze wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov hat geschrieben:
Die_Schanze wrote:
At least you could prove your strenght in correspondence chess. There you have your best conditions. But i belive that the strongest players there are aware about the strengths and weaknesses of their used engines, so they use them the best way possible. And therefore they are equal strong or even stronger than Lyudmil Tsvetkov.
Who knows, Die Schanze, who knows?
Hardware should make a big distinction there too, so again unequal conditions, no matter if you have the stronger or weaker hardware.
OTB is most fair, but also most demanding.
Okay, i understand that there will be some EXCUSE everytime one suggests that you should really play games under checkable conditions to prove your assertions. Therefore the main critique will be there forever, so it doesn't become easier to sell books...
Damn Vicious cirle!
No, it won't be forever, I will start playing at some point.
It is interesting people can not understand you need a lot of energy and a lot of time to play competitive chess.
Have you never really tried it?
cigoLogic wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
cigoLogic wrote:
What is the problem with ICCF?
And which country and city are you located in?
Copenhagen.
If you are seriously located in Copenhagen, then your excuses about not being close to an airport are not the best. Half an hour by taxi and you'll be in the airport.
We will never understand each other: when I say something as a joke, you take it seriously, and when I say something seriously, you take is as a joke...
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov hat geschrieben:
No, it won't be forever, I will start playing at some point.
It is interesting people can not understand you need a lot of energy and a lot of time to play competitive chess.
Have you never really tried it?
I have a full time job and play tournament chess, enough guys up to grandmaster level too.
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
cigoLogic wrote:
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:
cigoLogic wrote:
What is the problem with ICCF?
And which country and city are you located in?
Copenhagen.
If you are seriously located in Copenhagen, then your excuses about not being close to an airport are not the best. Half an hour by taxi and you'll be in the airport.
We will never understand each other: when I say something as a joke, you take it seriously, and when I say something seriously, you take is as a joke...
someone asks where you live and you answer "Copenhagen" although apparently you don't live in Copenhagen 
BEST. JOKE. EVER. you really got us there man. probably you should be a comedian instead of an author 
Guys, I don't think that he has to be a GM or even a master for being able to write a good book with innovative ideas. The one doesn't require the other. He might have brilliant ideas that work exceptionally well, but can't apply them himself, especially under a game's time constraints. That doesn't necessarily mean that another player, with a chess brain, can't use them and benefit tremendously by his system and ideas.
Chess at high level requires exceptional memory and pattern recognition, which is not something that every person has, especially if they didn't start playing chess at a young age. Even if you give me the best formula and instructions in the world, will never be able to play at a very high level. I can't remember a single game that I played, not tens of thousands like some of the super GMs do. Therefore, even if I came up with the best system around, it wouldn't help me much. But in the hands of these chess memory monsters and walking calculators could had been a tremendous tool. Actually, I have a semi-good understanding of chess, but can't apply none of it under any time constraint, which explains my huge rating gaps between the various time limits.
The only thing that he is at fault in my opinion is that he doesn't admit it, that he can't really play at GM level OTB, but instead he finds lame excuses.
ps: haven't read the book. I am just saying that it isn't required to be a top GM for being able to write a good book
Anyone having positive score against latest SF?
of course I have. but I will provide no prove whatsoever. does that ring a bell?