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Sorry for spamming, this is my last post here in a row I asked chatGPT for more nuggets of chess wisdom like mine and potential life applications. I'm quite impressed to be honest. Didn't want to withhold it from the community 1. Develop Your Pieces Early Chess Wisdom: Prioritize developing all your pieces in the opening phase to control the board and prepare for the midgame. Avoid moving the same piece repeatedly or over-relying on your queen too early. Life Application: Don’t put all your energy into one area (like work or one specific skill) at the expense of others. Build a balanced foundation—health, relationships, career, and personal growth—so you’re ready for the complexities of life later. 2. Control the Center Chess Wisdom: Controlling the center of the board gives your pieces maximum mobility and strategic options. Life Application: Identify the "center" in your life—your core priorities or values. Focus on controlling these, as they influence everything else. For example, maintaining your physical and mental health can act as a "center" for achieving success in all other areas. 3. Castle Early Chess Wisdom: Protect your king early in the game by castling to avoid vulnerabilities. Life Application: Prioritize safeguarding your most vital assets (your health, financial stability, or loved ones) early on. This creates a solid foundation and protects you from unnecessary risks as life progresses. 4. Don’t Waste Tempo Chess Wisdom: Avoid unnecessary or redundant moves that waste time and give your opponent an advantage. Life Application: Be efficient in your actions. Don’t procrastinate or overcomplicate decisions. Time is a resource—use it wisely to move closer to your goals without getting sidetracked. 5. Always Think a Few Moves Ahead Chess Wisdom: Don’t just focus on the current move. Anticipate your opponent’s response and plan multiple moves in advance. Life Application: Think strategically in life. Consider how today’s actions (saving money, learning skills, building relationships) will affect your future. Anticipate challenges and prepare for them. 6. Sacrifice for Greater Gains Chess Wisdom: Sometimes you need to sacrifice a piece to gain a better position or set up a winning attack. Life Application: Be willing to let go of short-term comforts or lower-priority goals for long-term success. For instance, investing time in learning a difficult skill now might mean sacrificing leisure, but it will pay dividends later. 7. Recognize the Power of Pawns Chess Wisdom: Pawns may seem weak but can become queens when they reach the end of the board. Use them strategically, especially in the endgame. Life Application: Small, consistent efforts (like daily habits or minor skills) may seem insignificant now but can lead to massive rewards over time. Never underestimate the potential of "small moves." 8. Avoid Overextending Chess Wisdom: Pushing too many pawns or overcommitting pieces can leave you vulnerable to counterattacks. Life Application: Avoid overloading your schedule or resources. Stretching yourself too thin can lead to burnout or expose you to risks. Maintain balance and know when to pull back. 9. Learn the Principle of Opposition Chess Wisdom: In the endgame, controlling key squares and placing your king in opposition to the opponent’s king can secure victory. Life Application: Position yourself strategically in life to gain leverage. For example, in negotiations or competitions, understanding the dynamics of your counterpart’s position can give you an edge. 10. Don’t Ignore Threats Chess Wisdom: Always consider your opponent’s potential moves and threats, even if your position seems strong. Life Application: Stay aware of risks and challenges in life, even when things are going well. A proactive mindset helps you anticipate and mitigate potential setbacks. 11. Aim for Harmony Chess Wisdom: Coordinate your pieces so they support each other and work toward a common goal. Disconnected pieces are weak and vulnerable. Life Application: Cultivate harmony in your life by aligning your actions with your goals and values. Build strong relationships where mutual support fosters collective success. 12. Be Flexible Chess Wisdom: Adapt your strategy to the situation on the board. A rigid plan can fail if conditions change. Life Application: Flexibility is key to thriving in an unpredictable world. Be willing to pivot your goals or methods when circumstances shift, without losing sight of your overall vision. 13. Know When to Simplify Chess Wisdom: In a winning position, trading pieces to simplify the board can make it easier to secure victory. Life Application: Simplify your life when overwhelmed—declutter your commitments, focus on essentials, and remove distractions. Complexity can often obscure clear paths to success. 14. Study Patterns Chess Wisdom: Studying openings, endgames, and common tactical motifs sharpens your intuition and speeds up your decision-making. Life Application: Learn from patterns in your own life and others’. Recognizing recurring challenges or opportunities helps you act decisively and avoid repeating mistakes. 15. Use Discovered Attacks Chess Wisdom: A discovered attack unleashes hidden potential by moving one piece to reveal another’s threat. Life Application: Recognize your hidden strengths or resources, and find ways to bring them into play. Sometimes removing one obstacle can reveal unexpected opportunities. 16. Watch for Forks and Pins Chess Wisdom: A fork attacks two or more pieces at once; a pin immobilizes a piece by threatening something more valuable behind it. Life Application: Look for opportunities to achieve multiple goals with one effort (fork). Avoid being “pinned” in situations where one bad choice locks you into greater problems. 17. Practice Endgames Chess Wisdom: Many games are won or lost in the endgame. Mastering this phase gives you a huge advantage. Life Application: Focus on long-term planning and preparation for life’s “endgames,” like retirement, legacy, or major life transitions. This ensures that you’re well-positioned when the time comes. 18. Stay Calm Under Pressure Chess Wisdom: In intense situations, keeping a clear head allows you to find the best moves. Life Application: Stressful moments in life demand composure. Practice mindfulness or stress management techniques to maintain clarity when it matters most. 19. Understand Your Opponent Chess Wisdom: Knowing your opponent’s style and typical strategies can help you counter them effectively. Life Application: Learn to read people’s motivations, behaviors, and preferences. Understanding others deeply can improve relationships, negotiations, and teamwork. 20. Keep Learning Chess Wisdom: The more you study and practice, the better you become. Chess has infinite depth to explore. Life Application: Life is an endless learning journey. Stay curious and open to new knowledge, skills, and experiences, no matter how much you think you know.

When I asked chatGPT to transfer my chess insights into real life it gave me these answers: A little shallow but true. I'm working on more of those. I'd love to see you adding more nuggets of chess wisdom and metaphoras into your content. 1. Balance Self-Focus and Empathy Chess Insight: Take the same amount of time to think about the opponent’s move as your own. Life Wisdom: Pay equal attention to how others' actions influence you as to how your actions influence others. True control is an illusion—it’s all interconnected. By considering others’ perspectives and actions as deeply as your own, you’ll better understand your environment and relationships. 2. Walk in Others’ Shoes Chess Insight: Play the board turned 180 degrees to see from your opponent’s perspective. Life Wisdom: Regularly shift your perspective to see life through the eyes of others. This builds empathy, improves decision-making, and helps you anticipate challenges and opportunities you might miss when viewing only from your own angle. 3. Reverse Engineer Your Goals Chess Insight: Learn checkmates from 1 move out, then 2, 3, and so on. Start at the end. Life Wisdom: Begin with the end in mind. Imagine your ideal outcome—whether it’s in your career, relationships, or personal growth—and work backward to map the steps that will get you there. This ensures focus and efficiency in pursuing your dreams. 4. Embrace Discomfort for Growth Chess Insight: Playing inefficient openings forces focus and develops a broad skill set. Life Wisdom: Seek out challenges that put you at a disadvantage. These uncomfortable experiences stretch your abilities, make you more adaptable, and help you develop resilience. Avoid the trap of sticking only to what you’re already good at. 5. Seek Feedback Relentlessly Chess Insight: Analyzing blunders is crucial; feedback makes perfect. Life Wisdom: Success isn’t about repetition; it’s about reflection. Actively seek feedback from others and analyze your mistakes without defensiveness. Every failure is an opportunity to refine your strategy and grow. 6. Adapt to Different Speeds of Life Chess Insight: Play with and without time pressure to develop different skills. Life Wisdom: Practice decision-making both in high-pressure situations and in periods of calm. Quick decisions teach efficiency and adaptability, while slower deliberation hones depth and thoroughness. Both are essential for a balanced and capable mind. 7. Invest in Long-Term Complexity Chess Insight: Knights require more mastery than bishops but yield greater brain gains over time. Life Wisdom: Don’t always choose the easiest path or the quickest payoff. Pursue complex challenges that require patience and deep effort—they offer richer rewards in terms of personal growth and mastery. 8. Surround Yourself with Real People Chess Insight: Engines at low levels are inconsistent and teach bad habits. Life Wisdom: Engage with real, complex human beings instead of relying too much on artificial or simplified feedback systems (e.g., algorithms, curated content). Authentic human interactions provide the unpredictability and richness that foster true learning and growth. 9. Challenge the Best, Even If You Lose Chess Insight: Grind your teeth against the chess engine at its highest level. Life Wisdom: Challenge yourself against the toughest opponents or situations, even when failure seems likely. Surviving and striving under intense pressure builds fortitude, creativity, and skills you wouldn’t otherwise develop. 10. Never Settle for “Good Enough” Chess Insight: If you’ve found a good move, find a better one. Life Wisdom: Resist complacency. Even when you achieve a goal or solve a problem, ask yourself, “What’s the next level?” Continuous improvement is the key to long-term success and fulfillment.

@Leo Gura It's cool to see you playing chess, especially fischers960! I like it more than classical chess, too. I have some qestions if you like What are your most holistic insights around chess as a metaphora for life? What's your goal behind it? Just having fun or developing more depth in thinkinh etc? What were the greatest chess-insights that enhanced your playing which could be transfered to other areas of life? I play around 2000 elo and some booster insights for my game and life in general were: - Take the same amount of time to think about the opponents move as your own. It seems that only you are more in control of your own pieces but actually that's an illusion, because with every move you make you change the value of every piece on the board and therefore control its meaningful options as well as your own. - Play the board equally often turned 180 degrees around. That's how you develop a feeling for the perspective of your oppenent. - To learn quickly, training tactics is ernormously helpful. Actually, if I had the challenge to succeed at chess from 0 to max I would take the same route as with labyrinths, start at the end. Meaning, start with 1 move until checkmate, then 2, 3 and so on. - Going for elo directly is stupid. I like playing strange and inefficient openings so I start with a slight disadvantage, which keeps me more focused and cautious the rest of the game. I develop a more broad skillset and don't fall into the trap to repeat what I already succeed at too often. - Analysing your game for blunders is so crucial! It's not "practice makes perfect" but "feedback makes perfect". - Play with time pressure as well as without. Both help to develop crucial skills, the advantage with time pressure is more efficient thinking (decision making) and by analysing blunders you get a better feeling for the disfunctional heuristics that will probably cripple your game in general. No time pressure is good for the in-depth-reasoning, but to be honest, here are the tactic tasks superior, because there is only one perfect solution so the feedback is much clearer, and you usually don't overthink but also don't underthink since you are more motivated to find the best move because you know it definitely exists. - Though oftentimes bishops are more powerful as knights, especially when both bishops are still present, the knight is a much more complex piece which needs more training to master, so for the brain gains and in long term it may be advantagoeous to trade bishops for knights. - Also play against real players. The problem with engines especially at low levels is, that they sometimes make extremely stupid moves. They don't play at a consistent level from a meta perspective. It sometimes seems as if they were forced to take the second best move even though the best move is completely obvious. Then they are quite strong again in artificial ways. - Play against the chess engine at the highest level possible. Grind your teeth against it! Make it a challenge to survive as long as possible. This develops another area of your skillset. Train as many areas of skills as possible, and find creative ways for it. - If you have found a good move, find a better one. In your games on the blog I wondered about some moves. I think it would be very beneficial for you to analyse blunders like these, but maybe you play just for fun - sorry if I add my two cents - Generally it's quite advanterous to (risk to) move the queen and especially rooks so early in the game, seems to be a thing you like but may cost you some moves and therefore speed and whites advantage. - Moving the same piece twice in the opening phase is some kind of unwritten no go. Of course there are lots of cases where it is very necessary but generally the order is something around > knights bishops queen rook, with pawn movements all around and castling of course, avoiding to move the same piece twice in the beginning. Exceptions like pushing pawns and attacking pieces which either gain space, speed or positional power are logical, but the rest is rather disadvantegous - I guess you aware of en passant but one time you overlooked the obvious. Tactic tasks can help a lot with using castling and en passant for some genius counterattacks for example. Your play from move 29 to 40 in your latest game were really spot on, enjoyed watching it! Thanks for sharing your games and the passion around it.

I only deciphered a tiny part of this message, but it says something along the lines: Ye have two hands. Now do something meaningful with them! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodh#Perso-Arabic_ye

@Princess Arabia I like the guy you shared, although I didn't vibe with everything completely if I remember correctly. But haven't watched a video for some time now. And I like your explanation, thanks for the great post! Sometimes I wonder how much bullshit people believe concerning manifestation, when simple questions like: "And how come a four-year-old not get his money-tree when he puts a coin in the soil?" would deconstruct these naive notions of wishful thinking. The universe is not a wish-and-get-mashine but a mirror, it always reflects the starting point. It's a question of the resonance frequency, and if you vibe high so to speak you are not really that interested anymore in concrecte manifestations, specific forms how the joy of life decorates itself. When people try to manifest a very specific outcome, this almost always comes from a mindest of lack, a very narrow minded idea of how things should be to be okay/good.

@Genius100x You ruminate a lot because if the emotions behind. Emotions direct what the thoughts reflect. Your overthinking probably is a distraction mechanism from the uncomfortable emotional energies behind. But you try to resolve them on a cognitive level where they mostly didn't originally came from. That's great! Sadness and Anger are the two core emotions! Your early providers from childhood could have done only two things wrong in your upnringing: Don't give you the attention and safety and things you need, leave you alone - in short neglect you, are not close to you -> the natural reaction is sadness, an emotion which cries for connection. Or they cross your boundaries, be aggressive, take your space, force you to be/behave some way or being overprotective - in short control you, are too close to you -> the natural reaction is anger, an emotion that screams for distance. We all suffer from those and most of us don't have a good connection to these emotions, some are buried very deep under a mask of a peoplepleaser for example (surpressed anger) or the cool guy (surpressed sadness) etc. When you become conscious, the buried stuff comes to the surface, to be felt, embraced and accepted. The hurt from childhood of unmet needs wants to be seen. Be gentle and compassionate with your inner wounded child. Feel the aliveness behind those emotions! These are e-motions, energies in motions. If you stop surpressing them, the stuck energies become dynamicly flowing. Let them flow, find some artistic expression for example. I love composing poems for example. One of the most effective things is: You as a child didn't have the capability to speak out your emotions like you have now. Now you can communicate what you feel and need. Do it! Look for someone who just listens to you without judgement and advices. Make the corrective experience that your emotions are valid and okay, you are seen and heard and felt. All your deep emotions came from interactions with people, so why not resolve them the same way? You are not alone and today you can bring your emotions into contact, go for it!

@Aether Phoenix Yes there are risks. Don't get scared about potential risks, look what you can handle and be true to your intuition. Self-inquiry can be a radical deconstruction process. People come from different places, it doesn't work the same for everyone. Some people didn't have the emotional/psychological stability in their childhood to develop a clear sense of self. For example, if your parents were not emotionally available, had episodes of extreme delusion or emotional swings, were manipulative, overprotective etc. this could lead to complex trauma and an instable core. For example, if your mother was bipolar, you may have attuned your emotions completely to those of your mother in order to vibe and relate with her. So now you may have difficulty to seperate your emotions from the people around you. You don't know what you really want, what are your own needs and feelings and what are the ones coming from those around your or your projections of these. In this case, you would need radically different form of therapy (structural work) than if you had the chance to develop a stable core and clear sense of self (in which case you can do procecedural work like personal development. Some people first need to get really grounded, get a sense of who they are, what they actually need, what seperates them from others around before they deconstruct their vague sense of self to early, which hasn't even fully functionally developed yet. They may try to solve psychological problems spiritually, which can create a lot of trouble. There are good parts of a stable "self", you don't want to get rid of your survival instincts for example or, as I pointed out before, the clarity which feelings you can perceive in a room full of people belong to you and which are your projections because of the mimic expressions of others. For people with severe trauma in the childhood especially it may be very important that they first get a very structured environment (that's why psychatric clinics can be effectice), where they have such clear processes and know exactly when they relate with whom and what happens next etc. that they have so few triggers from the outside that they get a sense of themselves, so the voice of their own needs and feelings can now be heard. I took that extreme exanple just to demonstrate that people are at different starting points when they get into such practices like self inquiry. Sadly, many spiritual teachers have absolutely no clue about (complex) trauma, psychological disorders, dissociation, derealisation, depersonalisation etc. Most of them don't even know that for some practices like simple meditation there are serious contraindications. For people with special kinds of depression or anxiety issues meditation can be harmful! But lots of spiritual teachers assume their listeners come from a similar place, have similar intentions and are in similar sates of mind. A student may look calm from the outside, but inside they fully press the gas and the break pedal at the same time, they may be in freeze mode most of the time instead of the assumed social mode. They don't get when the teacher speaks of "peace within" and when they hear the word "void" they associate rather the nihilistic, depressive void they are used to, a lack of feelings and aliveness most people can't even imagine. And then they may believe it's their fault, they msut do something wrond and it's not the teachers cluelessness and incapability to relate to someone like them. Seekers like these actually need psychological help, their nervous system is stuck in fight or flight mode or even worse in a freeze Mode, they need to get in intinmate contact with their feelings and needs and not the opposite, dissociating from their reality even further. It's crucial to know what you want from the technique you practice. Is it truth, or release from suffering? If it is the latter, it may be a hint that what you actually need is some kind of psychological relief, and your spiritual endevors may even push you further away from your goal. The problems with self inquiry can be of various kinds. It can become a practice that dissociates you further from your feelings and reality in general. If you actually do it because you want to escape from your human condition, if you wish and wait for a magical resolution of your problems, this is a good hint that you actually practice spiritual bypassing which will bite you in the ass. You may also get to a nice place where everything feels fine as long as you abide in that state which can prolong spiritual seeking unnecessarily. If you believe you should find a self, some core, you are on the wrong track. You may encounter some deep hidden trauma, a part of yourself where lots of surpressed emotions lurk in the dark, which can be very overwhelming if you feel through that (sounds like that in your case). The key here is: 1. Become clear of your intentions! Do you actually run away from something, project some fancy state into the future where your self dissolves and then everything will be fine forever? As you wouldn't try to learn to manifest water if you are thirsty, but walk to fountain and if your thirst is stilled, then you may try out manifestation, the same way you should go about spirituality and psychology/physiology. Become clear of what you (your body and psyche) needs and if you are satisfied and stable enough (survival is safe), then you can most effectively practice spirituality. 2. Be as authentic in your close relationships as you can. Introduce forms of dialogue that tie you to the consensus world in some sense (like honest sharing for example) so you have a check-up and reality-comparing-mechanism for the relative world. You don't want to be the only one who sees unicorns. No self is fine, but you still want to be able to say: "Please hand me the butter!" 3. Ground yourself! Connect regularly with nature (walk barefoot for example), eat enough and look for a healthy diet with all nutrients - micro and macro, Sleep enough and good (!!!) - a friend of mine once said: "what is the difference between a psychosis and a normal state of mind? - two days no sleep.", make sports and get stuck energies into flow, practice mindfulness stuff that connects you to intimately your senses. Self-inquiry is a beautiful practice and it can help along the journey. For most people it is a great tool to get to the core. But it's not a patent recipe for eceryone. It's important you have good guidance, know how it works and whats the intention behind it, and you practice it with self-compassion and not in a performance-driven, aggressive style. Stay connected! Wish you the best <3

I would say it points to the realization of scale invariance, perfection and the illusion of space and time. You can zoom in and out forever. Everything is an expression of infinite perfection.

I've been born into a fundamentalist christian environment I know exactly how religious people think, I've spent hundreds of hours in discussion with then. Anyone who doesn't already clearly see what a narcissistic antichrist-like figure Trump is, is so deluded, almost nothing will wake them up. Sorry man but that's very bad reasoning imo. You seem to have a very naive idea how religious people think. No one will question their god because of some failed expectations, they will rather blame demonic shadow powers. I will not answer to this thread anymore, it's just a very stupid idea not worth to engage further.

Do you see any problems with that reasoning?

Sorry but this is such a bad test I didn't even finish it because it's a waste of time. Anyone who has some clue about diagnostics will laugh at this

True. But in certain terrains of thought it narrows the branches of the possibility-tree of all the answers which have not a high value in tackling specific personal development or philosophical questions. The classic AI may tell you way more irrelevant and obvious stuff and not be so confronting. I had the feeling this leo AI was way more on point but that impression may come from my little interactive exposure to AI in recent times, maybe it just generally improved.

Btw I love these kind of conversations, thanks man <3 Yeah the idea of "the unconscious" may just be another layer of deception. Like people who repeatedly report to dream in black&white actually report to dream in colour if asked instantly after waking up - this backwards rationalization/recontextualization/interpretation to fit the data into a coherent narrative may be the same principle at play here. Everything "pops into existence" and your mind just creates a consistent/logical story to justify it. I think what Leo tried to point out is that every story you create about "how things come into existence/what the source is" is actually just another *popped*-concept, so the mind creates the next consistent narrative. Everything is *popped*, including the mind. This is the AUM, the infinite *pop*, the alpha and the omega, without beginning or end. The idea that there is linear chain of plops is just another *pop*, so every story of source or behind the scenes or unconscious - just *pop*. Chris Langan goes into great detail about the mechanics of the plopping so to speak. I think it is one of the best ways to put the whole thing into words - a radical nondualist would say G.O.D as an entity is a construct, it's another illusion. I am not sure if Leo would state the opposite - unawareness of oneself is just a state of consciousness G.O.D. imagines. In a way both are two sides of the same coin, the absolute and the relative. But I intuit that I share the same headknots as you do at that point. I am still not sure about this myself.

You are right. But when it comes to contemplate about your own life, implement the insights and really think about the stuff in depth, it is quite nice to be able to interact with an AI like it is a coach, someone who asks you the right questions back, attacks your reasoning and points out holes, inspires you which concrete steps you can take to embody it, and so on. You have to learn to interact with the AI in the smartest way possible to extract the full value. It is a skill of its own and maybe it soon will become the most valuable skill world wide to interact with AIs in the most intelligent/wise way. Most people will use AI to replace the effort of original thinking, like people stopped caring about basic math as much since the development of the calculator. But some people will use it to boost their intelligence and originality

@Keryo Koffa If I had to summarize my understanding of his view on solipsism in a non confusing way I would say: "The experience to be you (a being called human + its environment called experiential bubble/world) actually takes as much imaginative power/intelligence/space as the experience to be the whole universe. Each experience happens only here&now, and at the same time there is no other here&now. The only apparent difference is the state of consciousness. Right here&now the state of consciousness imagined by infinite intelligence is that of "human experience" - so this is all there is. There is no objective reference point, there are no other things/beings outside of it to compare it to, it has no scale and you can imagine to zoom infinitely into every direction inwards & outwards. Infinity with no real center. Everything imagined "being apart from it" is an illusion, it's illusions/dreams all the way down, it's an infinite fractal/hologram consisting of nothing but illusions/dreams, a giant hallucination of nothing. In a way, the only game in town for you as infinite intelligence is to change your state of consciousness and therefore become more or less aware of your dreamlike nature." I don't know if he would agree to this but that's how it sounds to me (although it was very briefly summarized, would take more nuance to put the whole view into words of course). Does it sound like that to you or where would you disagree?