Studying chess: Books or video courses?

Hi everyone,

I am struggling to choose the medium for studying chess. I cannot decide should I go for the books or purchase video courses?

Please share your experience to help me decide :)

Thanks in advance and have a good day (night)

@nerman207 said in #1:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am struggling to choose the medium for studying chess. I cannot decide should I go for the books or purchase video courses?
>
> Please share your experience to help me decide :)
>
> Thanks in advance and have a good day (night)

A bit of everything, in the smallest conceivable steps, like you are adjusting the fine controls on a constantly moving yet ever changing machine, using all your faculties and gathering whatever feedback you can along the way.

This will be a matter of your own individual taste and the way you learn best.

Personally I much prefer books because you can go at your own speed when you are reading as opposed to having to press the pause button many times. But other people learn better from being spoken to and from watching moving pictures.

@nerman207 said in #1:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am struggling to choose the medium for studying chess. I cannot decide should I go for the books or purchase video courses?
>
> Please share your experience to help me decide :)
>
> Thanks in advance and have a good day (night)

Depends but personally I find chess books hard to keep up with as I have bad visualisation so every move I have to set it up on a board and stuff. Some books are very good though :)

Videos can be helpful too I recommend Daniel Naroditsky and John Bartholomew they are very good at making educational videos !

For someone around 1800, my guess would be that electronic books are the way to go.
theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/john-watson-book-review-107-of-eplus-and-chess-praxis
theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/john-watson-book-review-114-more-on-electronic-publishing

I study mostly from books moving the pieces on a physical board, trying to refute what the book is saying, trying ''why not this?'' and making notes. Takes me 30 minutes to go thru 1 annotated game usually. I like videos but find I dont retain when I sit passively and have something explained to me.

I know many(*) who are the exact opposite and study by clicking tru a game on a screen or watching a video. Everyone is different.
-Bill

(*) I've been puzzling over this lately. These are mostly younger people who didnt grow up with maps and books. Oddly, I think this will change mathematics as there is a generation without a strong geometric intuition which I think is necessary for research in analysis for example. I see this effect in the classes I teach-- students mostly dont make pictures in their head and have trouble making schematics on paper.

Study habits start when we are very young of age. We listen, touch, try, look and then talk. So in that list the answer is there somewhere. Use the methods they teach in schools. If you did not learn any methods in school, well here is a link that an AI has gathered from websites to help answer the subject question.

www.perplexity.ai/search/33471d9f-035b-4465-9893-f8146bd6337f?s=u

If the material you find is not challenging, chances are you will not be improving, but associating things and repetition does wonders to help remember things.

Effort = Results.

@Toscani said in #7:
> Study habits start when we are very young of age. We listen, touch, try, look and then talk. So in that list the answer is there somewhere. Use the methods they teach in schools. If you did not learn any methods in school, well here is a link that an AI has gathered from websites to help answer the subject question.
>
> www.perplexity.ai/search/33471d9f-035b-4465-9893-f8146bd6337f?s=u
>
> If the material you find is not challenging, chances are you will not be improving, but associating things and repetition does wonders to help remember things.
>
> Effort = Results.

Effort ≠ Results.

Quoting forum post people have just read is meaningless and looks more like spam.
Put some effort in your post and justify why it's not. You might get better results from your actions. @heallan

@Toscani said in #9:
> Quoting forum post people have just read is meaningless and looks more like spam.
> Put some effort in your post and justify why it's not. You might get better results from your actions. @heallan

We're all trying mate, but what does it all mean - basil.