Leo Gura

1) Most people won't Awaken, so this dramatically undercuts your point. 2) You should actually test your theory against real people who have Awoken. If you do that you will see your theory doesn't hold up.

You are grossly oversimplifying how chess works. And why would I want to play the same damn opening every time? This is insane.

Your position forces me to memorize shit that I do not want to memorize. So that's the bottom line and the deciding factor. You want me to memorize things just to play a less varied and less creative game. This is a lose-lose proposition. The only reason for me to do that is conformity. And then you try to dress this up as a dispute over some objective factors and experience level. If I don't play your memory games then I cannot play classical chess at 2000. That is the issue. I have to spend months memorizing shit just to be competitive. Why would any intelligent mind do that?

Openings are what make chess boring. Directly germane to the subject. You frame your claim as something objective when it is your opinion. I get too little enjoyment from classical chess. And that matters. I could play tic-tac-toe, but I don't. Your experience level is irrelevant to my level of enjoyment.

I don't have a cure for Christianity.

It's boring as hell. I have played less than 100 games of classical and I am already bored by it. And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

That is too profound to discuss casually. This is like discussing sex with a stranger. I can't explain the beauty of God to someone who doesn't even know what God is. If I dress ordinary, people will be misled into thinking I say ordinary things. I am trying to help people not fool themselves. Since I say extraordinary things I should look extraordinary not to mislead people.

Well, a Christian is a low bar. Haha

This makes no logical sense. If memorizing theory wasn't crucial then everyone wouldn't be doing it as much as they do. And also, people would be not as resistant to Random as they are. Bobby Fischer cleared all this up years ago. He hit the nail on the head. Classic chess is a scam. It is not pure chess. It is astonishing how conformist chess is. If openings aren't crucial then stop playing classical chess. Put your money where your mouth is.

There is no rule. It all depends.

Maybe having a pet goat is your way

Screening question: "Can I interest you in our crack pipes? Buy one get one free special." "Dad, how did you meet Mom?" "Well, son, she was looking for a crack pipe..."

Nah, I think people get hooked by that even if they disagree. They get hooked trying to debunk it. On the internets it is better to be controverisal and crazy that boring.

I didn't feel that way when speaking with them. That was very intentional. I didn't want any kind of weak-sauce, materialist-compatible notion of Awakening. None of that Sam Harris stuff.

I wasn't stressed. But depth take time to get rolling. It's hard to just launch into deep philosophy. It needs build-up, like my own videos. The best insights tend to come towards the end because foundation must be laid first, then many dots can interconnect quickly.

The nutcases are those who don't understand that everything I say is completely obvious.

I will twist that around on you and say that if someone tells me he is 2000 ELO in classical I want to know his real number: Fischer random. I don't care how much theory he has memorized. As usual, people got their values all backwards. Perhaps real chess ain't what you think it is.

Of course I am not 2000 in classical chess because I would be playing against guys who memorized a bunch of opening theory. Of course I would look bad there because I refuse to memorize theory. But I am not claiming 2000 in classic. I am claiming it in random. So I am not as self-deceived as you portray me to be. It is fair to say that my score is artificially high against bots. I acknowledge that. If I had a non-bot score then that's what I would report but I don't have it so I can only give you a bot score. I am not trying to sound better than I am. This is just the score I have.

Hikaru is not merely a master, he is worldclass. And he does a lot of cheap, quick, dirty, online games. These are hardly proper chess games. These are not serious classical games with careful attention to detail. And he acheived mastery before he even started playing online. How many classical offline games has Hikaru played to achieve GM? That's a better measure.

Ah, smoke shop game. Find yourself the perfect addict girlfriend "Sup girl! You like smoking crack? I am looking for a crackhead wifey."

I would like a clean brand too. Haven't had time to look into it.

I offered them to record it on my end, but they were uninterested. I do have an HD recording with HD audio of my end.

Yes, that is somewhat deliberate, to call them out. It is a shot across the bow of the Titanic.

BTW, you are grossly over-estimating that number. You have not played even close to 10,000 games of chess. That's an insane number that even a grandmaster hasn't played.

That's the first thing Anastasia asked me. They probably didn't include that part in the podcast.