Hanging Pawns is THE BEST YouTube channel FOR LEARNING. If you are trying to get streamer type content you are not going to learn much unless you are below 1800 rapid lichess or around 1300 fide. Hanging Pawns teaches you middle game, endgame, and mainly openings. The openings are decently indepth and are a great for learning.
no ples no
youtube video are not for "study" because "study" need table, chessboard, and a mind ready to work, at a viewer, you rarely take the time to stop the video, setup the position, think and go back it play, and youtube video are rarely good for making you want to take the time to resolve the position.
book are best, playing long control game are best,
youtube video shine at "before bed" situation, but is not study, because in the most case too passive.
Special case could by made for beginner, because watching chess game is very good for this level.
book are best, playing long control game are best,
youtube video shine at "before bed" situation, but is not study, because in the most case too passive.
Special case could by made for beginner, because watching chess game is very good for this level.
See, when we go back in times, there was never book for 1500 or 2050 players.
There were indeed materials which started from basics regarding tactics, strategy, endgames. So 'you' had to go through all content regardless your strenght and find out things which are new to you and you were plugging the holes in your knowledge from bottom till upper levels.
(The only books which lead you completely form bottom level are endings, where authors started with very simple ones and completed chapters with most complex ones from grandmaster practical games, again when carefully going through the such material you'll find out the moment when things started to become difficult to understand and then you go slowly, analyzing one position for hours if required).
The other books written by strong GMs never contained comments for 1700 player (for example), they gave their best opinions and comments they could. On such way you improve upwards, but there were much more gaps as your 'rating' was lower, so then you should stop at such positions and analyze for hours and days until you get your own conclusion what Master wanted to say or why he made some specific move. Only by independent (and stubborn!) analysis.
I do not understand such videos, or whatever material which says 'for 1700' player. 1700 where, in what? To get what ? 1700 on lichess is not same as FIDE elo, is not same at online arena, is not same at c24, is not same when for blitz or 45min games....etc. Also 1700 player may be of 2300 in opening but 1100 in endgame (which is not rare), it may be 2200 in bullet but it is not able to hold 10 or 15 moves in serious chess game.
So to make conclusion, you should watch (or read) best available contents given by certain players (not required to be strongest grandmasters) which, but before that you should sort out basics very well (basic endings, basic strategical principles, basic tactics, etc...).
Another thing with all these videos is same when you compare good book with 90min movie based on such book. It is not the same.
Honestly speaking, let everyone of you take for example, Fine 'Basic Chess Endings' or any other book, and make 45 min video from book content, how much of percentage of book you have covered with video???
There were indeed materials which started from basics regarding tactics, strategy, endgames. So 'you' had to go through all content regardless your strenght and find out things which are new to you and you were plugging the holes in your knowledge from bottom till upper levels.
(The only books which lead you completely form bottom level are endings, where authors started with very simple ones and completed chapters with most complex ones from grandmaster practical games, again when carefully going through the such material you'll find out the moment when things started to become difficult to understand and then you go slowly, analyzing one position for hours if required).
The other books written by strong GMs never contained comments for 1700 player (for example), they gave their best opinions and comments they could. On such way you improve upwards, but there were much more gaps as your 'rating' was lower, so then you should stop at such positions and analyze for hours and days until you get your own conclusion what Master wanted to say or why he made some specific move. Only by independent (and stubborn!) analysis.
I do not understand such videos, or whatever material which says 'for 1700' player. 1700 where, in what? To get what ? 1700 on lichess is not same as FIDE elo, is not same at online arena, is not same at c24, is not same when for blitz or 45min games....etc. Also 1700 player may be of 2300 in opening but 1100 in endgame (which is not rare), it may be 2200 in bullet but it is not able to hold 10 or 15 moves in serious chess game.
So to make conclusion, you should watch (or read) best available contents given by certain players (not required to be strongest grandmasters) which, but before that you should sort out basics very well (basic endings, basic strategical principles, basic tactics, etc...).
Another thing with all these videos is same when you compare good book with 90min movie based on such book. It is not the same.
Honestly speaking, let everyone of you take for example, Fine 'Basic Chess Endings' or any other book, and make 45 min video from book content, how much of percentage of book you have covered with video???
The videos that Botez and Naroditsky do together are incredibly good learning tools and I highly recommend them. It's good to have someone closer to your level to ask questions of someone like Danya, as he is wont to calculate much more quickly and can sometimes get a little ahead of the audience if he's unable to hear their feedback. When he does videos with one of the Botez sisters, I think it's their best content.
just watch Hikaru and/or naroditsky, not even necessarily their educational videos but watch them play, and their openings will slowly get into you, and also obviously the tactics they use will come in handy too....
if beginners want to learn chess watch Hikaru nakamura
Anyone except Gotham. He is a POS
@Aarav_22 said in #37:
> if beginners want to learn chess watch Hikaru nakamura
Of course not, he doesn't teach chess. He is making random videos, "look how good I play, I am so cool". This is a chess talkshow. Drum roll, slap the face and sitcom laugh.
> if beginners want to learn chess watch Hikaru nakamura
Of course not, he doesn't teach chess. He is making random videos, "look how good I play, I am so cool". This is a chess talkshow. Drum roll, slap the face and sitcom laugh.
Naroditsky is good. John Bartholomew. Robert Ramirez. Those are 3 of my favorites.
Thanks I will watch them and then try to play chess very well. THANKS A LOT @borninthesixties
Thanks I will watch them and then try to play chess very well. THANKS A LOT @borninthesixties
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