Streamer and Educational Content Survey : feedback requested !!!

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Avatar of newchesscorner64

Hello all

there's a lot of free content out there, especially youtube. I am talking about chess content to get better at chess of course

a quick note. There are many chess books including this one from former World Champion Garry Kasparov, which I have started but never finished !

I feel I have spent more hours watching youtube chess content than reading chess books with a chess board in the last 12 months.

So here's my question opened to you all, regardless of where you are in your chess journey !

Which streamer/content creator has the most useful videos out there

1) GothamChess aka Levy Rozman

2) GM Daniel Naroditsky

3) GM Hikaru Nakamura

4) Anyone else ?

Feel free to vote , name the best chess content on youtube aimed at improving in chess.

also if you happen to use books more than internet/video, let us know as well.

THANKS IN ADVANCE !!

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Hansen (GMtalks) has a series of 11 youtube video's about IQP positions that I found very good. With video's the ideas go in easy and out of my head just as easy-I have to watch one again and again and again while working thru a book on the topic to get it to stick.

For books, most current books have few comprehensible explanations and lots of computer analysis. Older books have the reverse. I buy & study books based on their explanations (with words not variations). (With that said-I'm currently working ( = suffering) thru GM Preparation: endgames -a violation of the above 'policy'. )

I dont watch streamers. For entertainment I watch ww kayak video's not chess.

- Bill

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Here is an interesting (for 1. e4 players facing strong Dragon players) example I'm working to assimilate now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_lTNNJmdzA

-Bill

ps-- I learn a lot from discussing ideas in chess - the back and forth-- so appreciate these opportunities for discussion.

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SwimmerBill wrote:

Here is an interesting (for 1. e4 players facing strong Dragon players) example I'm working to assimilate now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_lTNNJmdzA

-Bill

ps-- I learn a lot from discussing ideas in chess - the back and forth-- so appreciate these opportunities for discussion.

This is a fantastic video and repertoire against the Dragon for White

it looks like Black has decent counterplay with moves showing up with arrows.

but the GM Hansen shows how White can strike first

Thanks for sharing !

@ others in the club, feel free to share your videos/streamers/links here !