Leo, how on earth are you so good at Chess?

[AION]

I’m 1700 with regular chess 10:10 and I wouldn’t say that is high. People at this level still make a lot of mistakes and they don’t have solid game. Serious players start at 2000. And being good at chess is like going to the gym. You have to train every muscle in isolation and in compound. 

Edited January 4 by AION

[Leo Gura]

Many folks here are good at chess. I didn't even know.

[Bobby_2021]

I used to regularly play in real life international fide tournaments. No fide rating yet although I have beat 1500s in unrated tournaments, so that doesn't increase my rating.

~1700 on lichess that might translate to 1200-1300 in elo rating. Online ratings are a poor indicator of your actual playing strength since they all use different equations and metrics to arrive at the numbers.

I can relate to Leo that consciousness work has led to me finding new broader patterns and new ways of thinking and even allow me to transfer insights from other domains onto new ones. The whole feel is different. And when I used to grind chess in teenage, it used to exhaust myself. Now I am more at ease being able to savour it more.

Edited January 4 by Bobby_2021

[Tealeave]

@Leo Gura Ever tought about playing Go? Way more interesting, more system-thinking, less analytical brute force logic ... and way more complex then old borng chess

https://online-go.com/

 

Edited January 4 by Tealeave

[Recursoinominado]

Because he is using chess to procrastinate launching his new courses.

[Sandroew]

17 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Once I train up some more I could play some matches against you guys.

Actualized.org chess tournament would be *FIRE*. I would participate but realistically im only going to have time for such things in march first.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Let's make an actualized.org chess app. We'd do monthly or bi weekly tournaments and whoever has the highest ELO by the end of that time period gets a free jab of DMT in the ass😂

[Bobby_2021]

5 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Let's make an actualized.org chess app. We'd do monthly or bi weekly tournaments and whoever has the highest ELO by the end of that time period gets a free jab of DMT in the ass😂

You don't need a new app for that. There is a feature for tournament organisation with all popular chess apps chess.com lichess etc.

[The Renaissance Man]

Chess ELO percentiles if you want to check out a chart:
https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

[Leo Gura]

47 minutes ago, The Renaissance Man said:

Chess ELO percentiles if you want to check out a chart:
https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

So it looks like I'm right about average.

[Girzo]

@Leo Gura I believe the bots suggested rating is more like 1700 in a 10 minutes rapid game or 3+2 blitz and not a few hours long games like you are playing.

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Kairos said:

@Leo Gura Do you have openings and endgame knowledge too or you just play casually ?

I don't like memorizing openings, which is why I play Fischer.

[Leo Gura]

1 minute ago, Kairos said:

Tho Hikaru did mention many times that he wasn't as talented as other guys and had to work way harder.

None of these people are conscious enough to understand their own talents. It's all taken for granted.

Edited January 4 by Leo Gura

[The Crocodile]

7 minutes ago, RightHand said:

Just the concept of giving a fuck about chess is odd. It's strange!

Why would a kid be glued to a chessboard? Think about it!

Ego.

[integral]

1 hour ago, The Renaissance Man said:

Chess ELO percentiles if you want to check out a chart:
https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

Unless your rating is over 2700+ you haven't truly figured out the game. 

2500 haven't figured out what the 2800 have, that's why they are not stronger, its not just pure genetic horse power.

I dont have any idea what im doing when playing chess and im at 2300, every time i play its all a mess, i see all my blindspots but have no idea what im blind to.

Like spiral dynamics there are stages your blind to above.

Every 300 points increase is likes seeing a whole new world.

When stockfish shows me after analyzing "the right way to play", it looks like pure magic. 

"This is the right way to coordinate these pieces in this position" to intuitively be able to grok that during game this is not simple.

Hold on i sound to serous and am to opinionated, im going to get scolded.

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When your a beginner its much easier to make progress, but after 2000+ you have to dig for it. You don't know what your doing wrong and the engine will not help you. As a beginner the engine is very useful, after that point it does not teach you how to improve. 

Edited January 4 by integral

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, RightHand said:

If you dont pass the "glued to chess at age 10" test, you are almost guaranteed to be out of the top 100 chess players. Poof, adios!

It's basically that way for all worldclass athletes.

To be worldclass you need to sink all your skill points into a single skill. You have to be semi-crazy to even find that appealing or meaningful.

You basically need to fool yourself into believing that this super narrow skill matters. But if you can make millions doing it, fooling yourself will be too easy.

Until some day you wake up and realize you wasted your whole life playing games.

Edited January 4 by Leo Gura

[Dodo]

 

20 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Hikaru's reaction is like a girl when you cum after 3 pumps

I call that mate in 3  quick and efficient.

 

[Dodo]

1 hour ago, integral said:

Unless your rating is over 2700+ you haven't truly figured out the game. 

2500 haven't figured out what the 2800 have, that's why they are not stronger, its not just pure genetic horse power.

I dont have any idea what im doing when playing chess and im at 2300, every time i play its all a mess, i see all my blindspots but have no idea what im blind to.

Like spiral dynamics there are stages your blind to above.

Every 300 points increase is likes seeing a whole new world.

When stockfish shows me after analyzing "the right way to play", it looks like pure magic. 

"This is the right way to coordinate these pieces in this position" to intuitively be able to grok that during game this is not simple.

Hold on i sound to serous and am to opinionated, im going to get scolded.

---

When your a beginner its much easier to make progress, but after 2000+ you have to dig for it. You don't know what your doing wrong and the engine will not help you. As a beginner the engine is very useful, after that point it does not teach you how to improve. 

2300 on chesscom? Or Lichess  (big difference, Lichess has inflated ratings by a lot)

Edited January 4 by Dodo

[Value]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

So it looks like I'm right about average.

@Leo Gura My daily Chess rating is 1327 on chess.com - 96th percentile according to their stats.

[integral]

2 hours ago, Dodo said:

2300 on chesscom? Or Lichess  (big difference, Lichess has inflated ratings by a lot)

 you got me lmao, I got to about 2250 peak on chess.com when I was a teenager but this was 15 years ago. I haven't played since then lol my normal rating was lower like 2100

This is my new plan seeing as the number one priority of Leo is now chess.

1) exercise about 45 minutes.

2) make sure not hungry and in the zone.

3) take 100ug of LSD, wait 30 minutes

4) play about 10 games. Until you noticed your diminishing.

5) wait 4 days and then repeat.

This is the only way to do actualized.org chess Justice.

Edited January 5 by integral