The Secret of Chess

[cdani]

Do you think your program is so strong, since you believe in Lyudmil?

There are a lot of ideas to think about, and some worked already on various engines; more than enough

[Graham Banks]

All the best with your sales Lyudmil. Looks like a lot of effort has gone into it.

[carldaman]

Good luck, Lyudmil - hope there are a lot of potential buyers here, maybe among the up-and-coming programmers. Of course, not everyone skilled at writing code has also the chess know-how.

cheers,
CL

Hi Carl.

thanks for dropping by!

of course, you know you are due a free version.

unless you already attempted to buy it, please drop me a mail at the address specified at the site.

a couple of other people here, most notably Louis Zulli and Joerg Oster, are also due this service, but I am so busy with different things right now, that I barely have the time to think of what I should be doing right.

Thanks for the kind and generous offer, Lyudmil, but I've decided to support your project by actually buying a copy. [I've asked an anonymous non-chess friend of mine with paypal access to make the purchase for me. You should see it today, most likely.] If you follow some of the good marketing advice given in this thread, I'm sure you will reap quite a few more sales in the future.

Cheers,
CL

[Lyudmil Tsvetkov]

Good luck, Lyudmil - hope there are a lot of potential buyers here, maybe among the up-and-coming programmers. Of course, not everyone skilled at writing code has also the chess know-how.

cheers,
CL

Hi Carl.

thanks for dropping by!

of course, you know you are due a free version.

unless you already attempted to buy it, please drop me a mail at the address specified at the site.

a couple of other people here, most notably Louis Zulli and Joerg Oster, are also due this service, but I am so busy with different things right now, that I barely have the time to think of what I should be doing right.

Thanks for the kind and generous offer, Lyudmil, but I've decided to support your project by actually buying a copy. [I've asked an anonymous non-chess friend of mine with paypal access to make the purchase for me. You should see it today, most likely.] If you follow some of the good marketing advice given in this thread, I'm sure you will reap quite a few more sales in the future.

Cheers,
CL

thanks a lot, Carl, but it was not necessary...

maybe you will still claim your due copy, that you can present to your anonymous friend, or someone else you choose interested in chess.

please write a mail to the address on the site.

I guess you will like a lot the small section about pointed chains(and I insist here it is 'pointed', and not 'pointy').
they are partly, at least emotionally, related to you.

the spearhead concept, on the other hand, I mean the name, stems directly from you.
maybe it has been a well-known English-language term, but I learned that from you.

you will certainly like the small part about spearhead connected passers.

concerning following good advice, of course, you are right, the point is that I am mostly unobtrusive and completely economically awkward.

thanks again and drop a mail.

[Lyudmil Tsvetkov]

All the best with your sales Lyudmil. Looks like a lot of effort has gone into it.

many thanks, Graham.

it was not easy, I mean, putting it down to file was more or less straightforward, but collecting all the necessary information took a lot of time.

[carldaman]

Good luck, Lyudmil - hope there are a lot of potential buyers here, maybe among the up-and-coming programmers. Of course, not everyone skilled at writing code has also the chess know-how.

cheers,
CL

Hi Carl.

thanks for dropping by!

of course, you know you are due a free version.

unless you already attempted to buy it, please drop me a mail at the address specified at the site.

a couple of other people here, most notably Louis Zulli and Joerg Oster, are also due this service, but I am so busy with different things right now, that I barely have the time to think of what I should be doing right.

Thanks for the kind and generous offer, Lyudmil, but I've decided to support your project by actually buying a copy. [I've asked an anonymous non-chess friend of mine with paypal access to make the purchase for me. You should see it today, most likely.] If you follow some of the good marketing advice given in this thread, I'm sure you will reap quite a few more sales in the future.

Cheers,
CL

thanks a lot, Carl, but it was not necessary...

maybe you will still claim your due copy, that you can present to your anonymous friend, or someone else you choose interested in chess.

please write a mail to the address on the site.

I guess you will like a lot the small section about pointed chains(and I insist here it is 'pointed', and not 'pointy').
they are partly, at least emotionally, related to you.

the spearhead concept, on the other hand, I mean the name, stems directly from you.
maybe it has been a well-known English-language term, but I learned that from you.

you will certainly like the small part about spearhead connected passers.

concerning following good advice, of course, you are right, the point is that I am mostly unobtrusive and completely economically awkward.

thanks again and drop a mail.

Thanks again, I'll do that in a few days when I have a bit more free time. Hopefully, I can get around to reading thru your book soon.

I had the feeling you'd be mentioning the spearhead pawn and the pointed chains. Yes, 'pointed' is more formal and appropriate for this context. I was just having some impish fun with 'pointy'. The words keep reminding me of Mr. Spock's ears.

Back then, I had a very good time participating in that discussion about pawn chains. Ironically, I was off on sick leave for a few weeks during that stretch, otherwise my contribution would have been nil. I certainly don't miss the illness, though!

In retrospect, it seems more strong engines now prefer to 'extend the chain', 2.5 years later, something I am glad about.

[Lyudmil Tsvetkov]

Good luck, Lyudmil - hope there are a lot of potential buyers here, maybe among the up-and-coming programmers. Of course, not everyone skilled at writing code has also the chess know-how.

cheers,
CL

Hi Carl.

thanks for dropping by!

of course, you know you are due a free version.

unless you already attempted to buy it, please drop me a mail at the address specified at the site.

a couple of other people here, most notably Louis Zulli and Joerg Oster, are also due this service, but I am so busy with different things right now, that I barely have the time to think of what I should be doing right.

Thanks for the kind and generous offer, Lyudmil, but I've decided to support your project by actually buying a copy. [I've asked an anonymous non-chess friend of mine with paypal access to make the purchase for me. You should see it today, most likely.] If you follow some of the good marketing advice given in this thread, I'm sure you will reap quite a few more sales in the future.

Cheers,
CL

thanks a lot, Carl, but it was not necessary...

maybe you will still claim your due copy, that you can present to your anonymous friend, or someone else you choose interested in chess.

please write a mail to the address on the site.

I guess you will like a lot the small section about pointed chains(and I insist here it is 'pointed', and not 'pointy').
they are partly, at least emotionally, related to you.

the spearhead concept, on the other hand, I mean the name, stems directly from you.
maybe it has been a well-known English-language term, but I learned that from you.

you will certainly like the small part about spearhead connected passers.

concerning following good advice, of course, you are right, the point is that I am mostly unobtrusive and completely economically awkward.

thanks again and drop a mail.

Thanks again, I'll do that in a few days when I have a bit more free time. Hopefully, I can get around to reading thru your book soon.

I had the feeling you'd be mentioning the spearhead pawn and the pointed chains. Yes, 'pointed' is more formal and appropriate for this context. I was just having some impish fun with 'pointy'. The words keep reminding me of Mr. Spock's ears.

Back then, I had a very good time participating in that discussion about pawn chains. Ironically, I was off on sick leave for a few weeks during that stretch, otherwise my contribution would have been nil. I certainly don't miss the illness, though!

In retrospect, it seems more strong engines now prefer to 'extend the chain', 2.5 years later, something I am glad about.

hi Carl.

please send me a mail just now, later you might forget, or should I be back with a present to a person whose yahoo mail address has 78 in it?

your impish fun might have entered an official publication.

well, engines tend to improve in certain areas, but I would not quite say pointed chains with closed positions in the center are one of their strengths today.

more likely, one of the things they understand the least.

I guess you should be on a permanent sick leave.

[carldaman]

yahoo mail address has 78 in it?

...

I guess you should be on a permanent sick leave.

Neither that, nor a permanent vacation would pay the bills, though... ;-/
Speaking of which, I hope to more than skim thru the book once I'm on vacation (not yet).

(the yahoo email should be ok, thanks)

[Lyudmil Tsvetkov]

yahoo mail address has 78 in it?

...

I guess you should be on a permanent sick leave.

Neither that, nor a permanent vacation would pay the bills, though... ;-/
Speaking of which, I hope to more than skim thru the book once I'm on vacation (not yet).

(the yahoo email should be ok, thanks)

a package of a permanent vacation + a permanent sick leave seems ven better.

will be impatiently waiting for some of your feedback, even if in only a couple of months, when you are thru: your feedback is very important to me.

[S.Taylor]

Hello everyone.

I wrote a new book, titled 'The Secret of Chess'.

It is available for a modest charge here: http://www.secretofchess.com

I would have offered the book free to everyone on this forum, but, unfortunately, I had to leave my job couple of years ago, to be able to fully concentrate on chess.

So, my only alternative to trying to sell a few copies would be to go taxi-driving. (In Bulgaria, most educated people drive taxis)

More about the book and some excerpts on the above site.

PS. If anyone buys, please advise if things work, I am doing this for the first time.

I think this belongs to chess players forum, as it is about human chess.

If not, then I think we should abolish the chess players forum.

(yes it looks like it must be a very interesting book, certainly an interesting title).