The Secret of Chess

Lyudmil, calm yourself. Stop posting on this forum and eventually everyone will stop harassing you. But, do play some games for us pls. Your book sales will increase by a lot if you do so.

and I mean against humans. Won't be too much of a challenge will it? Also don't complain that it will waste your time. It can take all of under 10 minutes if you play a single blitz game

I think the consensus is correct that a perfectly played game by both sides would end in a draw. Put another way, white's first move advantage isn't decisive. But what about a match of 100 games between the perfect player and the strongest grandmaster in the world? Would the perfect player win all 100? Surely he would not agree to a draw in an even position if a win was possible. It seems that would ensure any potential draw would involve many moves, which would give the grandmaster many opportunities to make less than perfect moves. So the perfect player could well win all 100 - and perhaps never draw a game no matter how many he played.
I read that, theoretically, there is no limit to Elo rating because if the difference in ratings between the players is more than 350 points, the rating change is calculated based on a 350 point difference. The higher rated player's rating will increase if he wins no matter his opponent's rating.
I assumed LT pulled the 6500 out of his ass, which is always a safe assumption. However, I was curious if there was a maximum Elo. Evidently not. LT, never one to disappoint, pulled it out of his ass.

Figured it was better to delete and post again instead adding a correction some posts below.

Until now there only one strong player that read one of LT's books and saw interesting patterns there. One review by a GM, and one positive review (although showing several problems who LT could try to improve in a second edition). This is the only relevant thing at the moment. As long as this is the only review by a IM or a GM, it is very easy for us weak players (okay, Jorge is of course not weak) to constantly insult the author.

Of course that everybody here will list arguments to show that he deserves to be insulted and used as target for mockery. 

I can see already the next post: "He deserved it!" or "He is insulting us with his ridiculous claims to be a strong player and denying us any prove of this alleged strength". 

Yes. The same as the fat boy in the school, right? He deserved to to be beaten, the young girl sexually molested because somebody perceived her outfit to be provocative, and so on. 

Are several of LT's claims weird? Of course they are. Is "weird" a synonym to "faked"? Not necessarily. 

My brother in law told me once the story from a computer expert hired by a large Brazilian company. He flew from the USA to Brazil, came from the hotel and contacted the guy at the reception. The problem is that the specialist looked like a beggar, with his long and unkempt hair and his flipflops. The guy in the reception did not believe him and sent him away.

The specialist went to the hotel, bought a ticket and flew back to the United States.

Some beggar-looking people pretending to be expert in something are often beggars, and sometimes not.

Several people here found out very early that it is easy to provoke LT and make him say things that he probably would not say in more respectful discussion. He is provoked, insulted, he provokes back, and this thread is a wonderful example of how different people from different nations join forces to fight a common enemy.

Not only LT is now the big a..., me too, because I bought his books, because I treat him with the respect that I think everybody deserved and therefore I am not part of the "Volkssport": insult LT in all imaginable forms fair game for everybody from rating 200 to 2000. 

Yes, I am learning with his books (a little bit every day). From what I have seen yet the books are interesting - at least from what I can say based on my very low rating. I try some of his openings, get different games from what I was used before, get often check-mated, sometimes I checkmate my opponents that I didn't know would be possible. I cannot expect more from a chess book - that it will inspire me to see different things in the games.

Of course I feel a little like the child able to construct a little toy with Lego parts and, based on this primitive knowledge,  trying now to understand how an internal combustion engine works. This forum seems definitively not the right place to discuss internal combustion engines. 

I know, some will immediately say: "it is his fault, he deserves". Like the fat boy and the young lady with the provocative outfit, right? And the thread will go on with the repetitive insults, provocations and more insults. A never ending story, like the move Groundhog Day.

What a drama queen.

Und was für ein A... du bist.

Do you see, it is easy to insult people, right? A...

I agree

Discuss his books, for instance, would be an alternative.

Insult?  Oh.  I assumed that meant, "Well, I do tend to be melodramatic."

torrubirubi, within philosophy, what is called an argument from authority is considered a fallacy. One example would be: The earth is a sphere because Stephen Hawking says so. This is not a convincing argument, no matter how extraordinary a physicist he is. It would be much better to believe a lesser physicist who gives us good arguments for his claim that the earth is a sphere. Likewise, GMs are not the only ones we ought to listen to. Rather, we ought to listen to everyone who offers solid arguments for their claims. 

Regarding the OPs book, I don't know if it is good or not since I have not read it. However, if his lack of rigor and rationality in this thread is any indication of the quality of his book, it must be a poor book indeed. This is not an opinion, but deduction.  

I'm no physicist but I'll tell you why the earth is a sphere.  Given its mass, gravity gives it no choice.