The Secret of Chess

...then he'd have to pay chess models for their likeness...

They would most likely ban him in the process on suspicion of cheating

Thats why it would be a second account.  He could still link to the banned account once it got rated high enough to get banned (maybe after easily winning title Tuesday for example...).  

When they ban a player for cheating and they find more than one account traced to a Mac Address or IP Address, they close them all...

With those 15, you will not be able to pay your bills.

You think my home offers perfect conditions?

I have done some sound-proofing, but the noise of Russian jets flying all over the Earth surface is still pervasive.

Some noises, you can never shut off, learn more about the science of noise, those are vibrations that come through everything.

Only specialised noise-dampening conditions, like anechoic chamber, will probably be of help, but those cost into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Playing with no increment is, how to call it, stupid, 5+1 or 3+2 would be the much better choice.

2800-3200, man, I am not that ambitious, I am happy with 2500 online and OTB.

We will come to a showdown at some point, we will come to a showdown, I am certain about this, currently I am just so so busy with book-writing.

You want me to leave an interesting pursuit that brings me a couple of cents from time to time and instead start chasing the Chess.com online ratings wind?

You need a lot of energy to play competitively, even if online.

I mean, if you do it for the sake of competition, not just to enjoy yourself.

Read more on Tal here: https://www.expert-chess-strategies.com/chess-tactic.html

If you like the article, you will also like 'Tactical Tal'.

But those are only some of the most advanced positions, where Tal blundered.

Most of the puzzles are much simpler.

While keeping their unique touch.

Tal blundering in half of the advanced complicated tactical positions in his own games.

What do you make of that?

How did you find the linked article?

I guess many would be unable to solve these puzzles, or am I wrong?

How I would like to post some chess content here on Tal games, there is some brilliant stuff to it, that unpleasant time pressure hinders me from doing many things I would like to do.

One way or another, the serious discussion is bound to resume at some point.

The biggest report so far on some of my works has appeared now, unfortunately in German:

https://glarean-magazin.ch/2018/04/14/anti-computerschach-human-vs-machine-report-carstens-tsvetkov/

This is the Glarean Magazin, a magazine for chess, art and literature.

The edition pays particular attention to computer chess developments.

In this way, 'Human versus Machine' already has its very nice editorial review, as you see, the author is mostly supportive of the high quality of the games.

Btw., in the very same article, a couple of other so-called anticomputer specialists are presented, so definitely a vert very interesting read.

Of course, you should learn German first, or use Google-translate.

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I'm a German native speaker and I can confirm that the article is mainly positive towards Lyudmil. however, the article still doesn't address the issue that Lyudmil's games are probably fake. The fact that there are some human-like moves doesn't change anything; who guarantees that Lyudmil didn't use many takebacks, for example? So the article isn't very well written in my opinion. 

A bit steep, it seems.

Did you read it?

then you should have noticed he says, "...there are indications/hints the games are for real, though this is not a definitive proof..."

That is, THERE ARE indications the games could be for real, but NOT indications to the contrary.

I guess, in this perspective, one has more to believe in the games and their quality than otherwise.

Why would I doubt something, if any indicaqtions arousing such a doubt would be missing?

Anyone able to do an acceptable machine translation?

Yes, I know there are not acceptable machne translations, but still..., maybe someone has just discovered a magical option on the net.

At least, we will be laughing a lot.

that's just bullshit. there can't be ANY indications whatsoever whether you did use takebacks or not. anyone claims to know that, beside you yourself, is an absolute fool.

and to answer your question: I doubt that you were able to beat SF on several occasions because you can't provide any proof whatsoever, and even Magnus Carlsen couldn't beat SF regularly. So by far the most logical thing to assume is that you are lying/cheating. Very simple logic

I plan to petition Amazon about only accepting reviews for products from confirmed buyers. This prevents fake reviews from being posted for any purpose, in favor of the product or against. I think all of the proponents you can get to join in the outcry, the better. We need to help them realize that you have people who have created fraudulent accounts on multiple chess websites and Amazon, trying to discredit your work. Some of it can be attributed to personal vendetta, while some of it can be attributed to people who think you are undermining their coaching opportunities, or you are offering a short cut, that other disgruntled players, who spent many years learning the material the hard way, who also don't want a potential sudden influx of competition, to have access to it.

I also plan to approach undermining the questioning of the credibility of your games from the angle that, all online games can have cheating and OTB play isn't immune to the problem either, no matter how official or clean they should be considered. 

I also plan to present the idea that if you take back a move and play a different one, a PGN will show the moves played, with the alternate lines in parenthesis. In order to go back and edit of them would be pain staking work. It would be easier to learn and memorize the lines, as opposed to the continual job of trying to perpetrate fraud and not get caught. Making sure all of the moves are in the right places, the time stamps are right, etc, is tedious. If you mess up, the PGN won't even work right.

I also plan to state that if you actually buy the book and read it, you will see that the author possesses unique and extraordinary chess knowledge. I also am urging you to advertise yourself as a titled player CM Lyudmil Tsvetkov. You should get your free CM account here and link to the site on you Amazon profile. Like it or not, most people hold titles in very high regard and expect titled players to be coaches and authors. 

https://www.chess.com/members/submit-title-proof

Click that link and follow the simple instructions. Take a pic of yourself holding a legible hand drawn sign, with your name, date, and for Chess.com on it, a photocopy of your government ID and any certificate or copy of a page from the Bulgarian Chess Federation website, confirming your Identification #, rating, title, etc. Put those few pics in a zip file and send to Chess.com.

First time commenting on this forum in a while.

And my first comment in forever will be about that Amazon petition. I don't use Amazon, but I thought Amazon would have done that by now. I just assumed they already did only allow buyers to comment, but I guess this is not the case. If you do make a petition, make it so that the buyer can not write a review until they receive the item, so that way people won't be able to buy it, write a review, then immediately cancel the order.

Also, if you make the petition and it's online, please send me a link by messaging me, cause I want to sign it.

Also, this forum is very laggy compared to other forums for some reason. I am in forums reaching 1000 pages, yet none of them are as laggy as this. Maybe it's just because I haven't been on here in a long time

@stewardjandstewardj

Thanks for the suggestions about Amazon. I haven't noticed any lag. Is it perhaps your own connection ? I don't ever have too many problems with lag. Only occasionally a page doesn't want to load and I have to rerun it. I always assume it is because they are working on it.