Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

18 minutes ago, koops said:

Make those blunders a few times against real people.

Embarrassment make you learn FAST.

I'm learning quite well from my blunders against bots.

[trenton]

@Leo Gura I hope you continue doing well in your training to reach 2000. I could tell you about strategy, calculation, and other universal skills that apply to this. You probably are not interested in having people tell you all the answers. Would you rather just figure it out for yourself, or are you actually studying things like pawn structures, endgame theory, planning, and calculation? I don't think you would want to spend money on actual books and courses.

I could tell you these things, but I'm guessing you would rather do it yourself.

Good luck.

[Raskara]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

How well does your ELO carry over into Fischer Random?

I stopped playing at 1900 2yrs back, I will give you an answer after I play at least 10 games before the end of today...

[vibv]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Fair point.

I should play real people more. I am training up on bots first so that I don't make embarassing blunders.

People play way different than bots on chess.com. I had the same thinking once. But as it turns out being good against bots doesn't make you necessarily good against people. Firstly, because it lacks the psychological component and secondly, because bots make way more obvious blunders (as long as they don't play so well you can't win anyway).

I only play against people when I play nowadays and it's a completely different play style - even though I'm way too concerned about losing elo, which in itself makes it worthwile to practice playing human opponents.

Edited December 14, 2024 by vibv

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, vibv said:

and secondly, because bots make way more obvious blunders (as long as they don't play so well you can't win anyway).

Yeah, I don't like how bots make very stupid blunders. Their difficulty doesn't scale down intelligently as one would expect.

It's kinda sad that Chess.com doesn't have higher quality bots which play at typical human levels.

I like that with bots I can play at my own pace. I treat it as entertainment.

Edited December 14, 2024 by Leo Gura

[Girzo]

@Leo Gura Lichess.com bots scale more inteligentlly. There are 10 levels of them and level 6 starts to get difficult for me.

[Amadeusz]

Real people are ten times more fun for me than bots. I never play against bots.

[PenguinPablo]

16 hours ago, Exystem said:

When I asked chatGPT to transfer my chess insights into real life it gave me these answers:
A little shallow but true. 

Still deeper than Gary Kasparov's book... lol 

[AtmanIsBrahman]

@Leo Gura Some advice from a 2200 player: focus on piece activity first!

This guy's channel is a gold mine for instructional chess content (aside from his opening videos which are mostly cheap tricks). He explains a thinking system that works really well for getting to a high level at chess (2000+). You can apply the rules he shares in Fischer random too.

 

[r0ckyreed]

@Leo Gura I wish Leo would just play normal chess. He is playing this bizarre form of chess where the pieces are set up randomly and not how they are suppose to. I would like to see him play a regular chess game so that we can see how familiar he is with openings and traps. Also I would like to add feedback on considering playing against humans rather than bots. These bots are a waste of time. 

[Leo Gura]

@r0ckyreed The real traps are in Fischer Random.

Edited December 15, 2024 by Leo Gura

[Eskilon]

@Leo Gura When are you trying Go?

[Miguel1]

”If you give these as a gift people will love you.

Buy Now (affiliate link)”

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Ahahah, I couldn’t help but laugh imagining Leo turning into a master marketer after all his serious integrity & truth work 

[Leo Gura]

13 minutes ago, Miguel1 said:

turning into a master marketer

I was a master marketer. I just choose not to use it.

[Miguel1]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

I was a master marketer. I just choose not to use it.

Yes, I am aware

[mmKay]

@Leo Gura what's your go-to hot liquid to consume in these mugs?

[Davino]

I've come to appreciate Pure Dance more and more. Particularly after training, arriving home, put some good ass music and letting myself go is such a nice experience, almost liberating. I've come to realize this is going to stick with me for the rest of my life.

If one day we meet all together I hope we put some music and show our secret pure dance flow.

[lostingenosmaze]

On 12/6/2024 at 3:27 AM, Kinjal said:

Thank you Mr. @Yimpa

Good job, mate. Hope you're satisfied with yourself 😾

[Kokorec]

about Actualized Quotes #101 @Leo Gura

What kind of a god cant stop eating like a pig and procrastinate his life away,me,?

When you say that i as ego takes it to be god, what's the better perspective to grasp the quote?

 

Thank you 

Edited December 27, 2024 by Kokorec

[decentralized]

@Kokorec I’m also interested in this. Following.