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

[Kairos]

@Leo Gura Yeah that's a great point , INTUITION for chess is definitely genetic .

[RightHand]

11 minutes ago, Kairos said:

@Leo Gura Yeah that's a great point , INTUITION for chess is definitely genetic .

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!

Edited Saturday at 08:19 PM by RightHand

[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 Saturday at 08:40 PM by integral

[RightHand]

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!

 

 

[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 Saturday at 08:54 PM by Leo Gura

[RightHand]

48 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

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.

There was this chess drama back when chess was booming with Hikaru. A GM got upset that Hikaru was befriending normies.

 

Survival in action!

Edited Saturday at 09:37 PM by RightHand

[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 Saturday at 10:08 PM 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 Sunday at 12:38 AM by integral

[Leo Gura]

I have a rating of 3500 when I play with anal beads

[Leo Gura]

Do any of you guys know how to contact Levy from GothamChess? It would be fun to see him analyze one of my games.

Edited Sunday at 02:16 AM by Leo Gura

[AtmanIsBrahman]

2 hours ago, Value said:

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

A lot of people have made an account on chess.com and played a few games. The percentile isn’t that accurate, and that rating is more or less average for people who play chess a decent amount. But then again, chess skill is relative. There will always be people who are better and worse for 99.9% of us.

[The Crocodile]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

I have a rating of 3500 when I play with anal beads

Oh fun fact Destiny is into that and there was a leaked video of him sucking some guy's dick.

[AtmanIsBrahman]

35 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Do any of you guys know how to contact Levy from GothamChess? It would be fun to see him analyze one of my games.

You would have to be more famous, or more good

In all seriousness though, one exception Levy made was covering Tyler1’s chess journey where he got to almost 2000 elo from scratch in less than a year. It was of course helped by Tyler being a somewhat famous LoL streamer. 
 

 

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

You would have to be more famous, or more good

He analyzes 600 ELO games from randos.

Edited Sunday at 03:16 AM by Leo Gura

[AtmanIsBrahman]

52 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

He analyzes 600 ELO games from randos.

That’s true, he does that for “guess the elo.” You could submit a game, but the chance of it being featured would realistically be low. I’m sure he gets hundreds of submissions.

[Kairos]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I have a rating of 3500 when I play with anal beads

On 04/01/2025 at 2:50 AM, Leo Gura said:

 

Hans Niemann 😂😂😂

To contact levy maybe you should just comment under his video or on Instagram .

He's pretty cool guy I bet he'll play with you with clickbait title "I PLAYED WITH A CULT LEADER " or sum 🤣

[Bobby_2021]

9 hours ago, integral said:

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.

2300 is superb rating. But it is true that you see a new world with +300 increase. Imagine the world that Stockfish or Alpha zero sees. Those might have ratings of 5000+.

@Leo Gura Have you ever played classical? I am getting a mental breakdown even looking at your fischer random games. I just don't have the operating principles to play it. Plus, you are not supposed to memorize openings anyway in classical. Just play and see what comes out of it.