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How titled players lie to you

#131

I guess I’ve lived a sheltered life, but I don’t remember coming across anyone who says that improving is easy or that the traditional methods are no good.

I guess I’ve lived a sheltered life, but I don’t remember coming across anyone who says that improving is easy or that the traditional methods are no good.
#133

It would have been funny if you ended the article with a link to your chess courses.

It would have been funny if you ended the article with a link to your chess courses.
#135

@OIOOIIOI said in #6:

Great article and this is the case for areas other than chess too. a know example is: "become a full depth advanced Python progammer in 7 days from stretch" you'll see such courses anywhere for any programing languade. reality check: becoming a programmer requires a long journey of working on your own and trying to write code by yourself.
Yes,We can’t become a full depth advanced Python progammer in 2 months from stretch.

@OIOOIIOI said in #6: > Great article and this is the case for areas other than chess too. a know example is: "become a full depth advanced Python progammer in 7 days from stretch" you'll see such courses anywhere for any programing languade. reality check: becoming a programmer requires a long journey of working on your own and trying to write code by yourself. Yes,We can’t become a full depth advanced Python progammer in 2 months from stretch.
#137

You have all the reason, definitively this is the post of the century

You have all the reason, definitively this is the post of the century
#138

Most advertisements are targeted like "play and think like a grandmaster", suspiciously insinuating that if I take a course, lesson, boook, etc, I will become one one day myself. But thats NOT TRUE. This targeting hasnt changed much in the last 20 years of me playing chess. But this does not hit me, in fact it never did. I am playing for leasure and pleasure, stuck around the 1900 level for years now. Is this bad? NO! I am having fun playing the game and thats what counts for me. No need to be a GM. So life goes on and chess still is fun (mostly).

Most advertisements are targeted like "play and think like a grandmaster", suspiciously insinuating that if I take a course, lesson, boook, etc, I will become one one day myself. But thats NOT TRUE. This targeting hasnt changed much in the last 20 years of me playing chess. But this does not hit me, in fact it never did. I am playing for leasure and pleasure, stuck around the 1900 level for years now. Is this bad? NO! I am having fun playing the game and thats what counts for me. No need to be a GM. So life goes on and chess still is fun (mostly).
#139

If titled players lie to us amateurs and the writer is titled is he lying to me about the other liars!?

If titled players lie to us amateurs and the writer is titled is he lying to me about the other liars!?
#140

@AnlamK said in #3:

Thanks for the post - it is refreshing after all the nonsense we get from the guy that does the Chess Mood promotions.

Wait, which guy is promoting ChessModd - report incoming?

@AnlamK said in #3: > Thanks for the post - it is refreshing after all the nonsense we get from the guy that does the Chess Mood promotions. Wait, which guy is promoting ChessModd - report incoming?