Ranking Chess Streamers

The chess world is full of streamers. I can count dozens of streamers on YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram. But who is worth watching? Let's find out! To rank these streamers, I watched a statistic sample of their videos and rated them on different scales. I've sorted the rankings into categories so this list is easier to follow. 

Category 1: Entertaining Content

1. Anna Cramling- Plays titled players, posts "fun" content, out of chess content, and tournaments, plays hustlers, plays other streamers, and does challenges.

2. Andrea/Alex Botez (BotezLive)- Posts wide variety of entertaining content (e.g. interviews, challenges/contests), play titled players and hustlers.

3. Nemo Zhou (akaNemsko)- Posts games vs. titled players, hustlers, etc., posts travel vlogs, "fun" chess content, collabs with other channels (e.g. BotezLive, Mr. Beast), and out-of-chess content.

4. Alessia Santeramo- Posts games, tournaments, challenges, and how-tos.

5. Levy Rozman (GothamChess)- Reports on chess, plays titled players and streamers, does experiments/tests (e.g. giving Martin 30 queens), and occasionally goes insane. 

6. Hikaru Nakamura (GMHikaru): Posts Titled Tuesday, Bullet Brawl and tournament games, plays bots, plays inequalities, and provides entertaining commentary.

Category 2: Instructive Content

1. Arturs Neiksans (GMNeiksans): Posts on strategy, Bot Battles, simple how to videos, courses, commentating games, openings tactics, insights, and Grandmaster games. High quality instruction and content with lots of variety. By far one of the best instructive chess YouTubers.

2. Igor Smirnov (Remote Chess Academy): Posts very high-quality instructive content (e.g. traps, gambits, punishments for common openings).

3. Hikaru Nakamura (GMHikaru): Posts tournament games, Titled Tuesday, Bullet Brawl, Titled Player Games, plays bots, and provides engaging commentary.

4. Daniel Naroditsky: Posts highly educational and insightful speedruns, and teaches fundamentals and openings.

5. Levy Rozman (GothamChess): Posts instructive content (e.g. openings, tournament games, bot games) on the occasion.

Category 3: Organizations

These are the best organization YouTube channels.

1. Chess.com: By far the best, produces content on tournaments, championships, and Titled Tuesday, features streamers regularly, and posts entertaining content (e.g. lie detector chess, memes).

2. ChessBaseIndia: Posts on tournaments, championships, controversies, and player interviews.

3. St. Louis Chess Club: Provides extensive coverage of tournaments, matches, and numerous interviews.

Conclusion

There's a wide variety of chess content availably online, and I hope that this list has given you some good advice on who to watch!