For me, these are most enjoyable and instructive youtubers who present chess content:
Gavriel Tryffon (Kingscrusher);
Antonio Radić (agadmator);
Jerry (ChessNetwork);
Suren Aghabekyan (Chess with Suren);
if I were to pick one I would choose ChessNetwork. The way in which Jerry explains his thoughts is tremendously helpful to players of all levels. With his great ability to teach chess he also has a great personality. I enjoy every one of his videos and every time I finish watching one I feel a bit stronger chess-wise myself.
@TheThirdMouse Spencer FInegold is not at the St. Louis Chess Club.
@TheThirdMouse said (#19):
"Saint Louis chess club is kind of vulgar. Spencer FInegold literally mocked some person's death on recording. They aren't as lazy or low effort as HPY and the other one but they are evil and that is even worse."
that may be your opinion. i doubt many or any share it. st louis chess club is perfectly fine and legit, imho. what you're saying doesn't even make sense.
on lichess, eric rosen is good... actually, i like chess cruncher, altho i may be in the minority. i don't care for kingscrusher ---- i stopped watching him when it seemed evident that he never offers any comments... marc esserman is interesting, although kind of obscure, at least to me. he's i guess aimed at a more advanced audience. many of the other streamers here don't seem very worth while.
I like many of the allready mentioned like ChessNetwork and Finegold. I would like to add Daniel King's Powerplay Chess.
for me, agadmator is perfect: just enough explanation without getting way past my ability, clean and clear and easy to understand. I like Medoc either sleeping or when he interrupts the show. great selection of games, both current and historical. the Morphy saga is great.
oh yes, I forgot: Kassa Korley is great when he talks as he plays. he can express exactly what he is thinking and feeling, and it is familiar and similar to my thought process -- except of course, he knows and sees a lot more than I do
I enjoy Eric Rosen's streams a lot - very pleasant to watch, with some interesting insight into his thought process.
I find agadmator videos enjoyable, too - the commentary that he gives often seems a bit superficial (like, I feel like I could have got most of it myself by playing through the game with an engine on) but I like his style and the humour.
St Louis Chess Club content obviously varies depending on who's lecturing. Caleb Denby's stuff is great. Jonathan Schrantz is also pretty good. Alex Astaneh on Chessfactor and Hanging Pawns also seem good.
Andras Toth's stuff on youtube is interesting. He's opinionated and fairly blunt with his words, but he's got some solid advice coming from a lot of coaching experience.
a number of guys, including me, like eric rosen... he's so refreshing. so easy going. i'll watch him, and some horrid thing will happen in the opening --- to him, lol. and he just rolls with it, like, ok, made that mistake, let's see what happens. i am so refreshed to see a chess guy make mistakes and just roll with it. also, he's quite open about his thought process ---- a HUGE change from those guys who just sit there, silent as a rock or pebble or stone or hole in the ground, making move after move, maybe occasionally commenting on some arcane point. those guys are ..........definitely NOT there to share their thought process... rosen is and does. there's probably a couple more like him. even st louis chess --- they're more typical, afaict. they go over the correct moves, the obvious mistakes......... that's kind of typical and old school, to me. it's the usual. i mean, i can open up fischer's book and get the same thing, except much clearer and concise.
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Hanging Pawns' middlegame playlist is a must-watch. His opening playlist is more of an iverview without too much ideas tbh rather showing how both sides play but i like it too. John Bartholomew doesn't make too much guides, coaching advices, of tutorials on youtube but when he does, it is very instructive. Same with Eric Rosen. Watching and analzying Agadmator's videos is a good routine too. Idk about St. Louis Chess Club, it never helped me tbh
