How much could a player improve just by watching agadmator videos?

It won't take a year for me to complete this book, which I have only in ChessBase format. Faster than video; easy to show/see moves.

u need to implement things and not just watch vids

Personally, I don't really learn much from Agadmator's videos other than top gm's would mop the floor with me.  He's fantastic at entertainment, and I watch him almost daily, but I don't consider his content instructional at the level others are. And that's not a dig on him, that's not what his channel is about.

One I didn't see mentioned is IM John Bartholomew.  His Standard Games Playlist has hundreds of games he played online, many of them here, and every game is live with commentary and comes with a complete post game analysis.  Be forewarned, his videos are addicting! 

I have a friend and I taught her how to play chess. She's pretty terrible, but she's good enough to know that the horsey moves like an L, and we sit around and have some wine and chit chat. She thought it was weird that I could name games and positions and asked me what the coolest one was. I thought about it for a second and showed her Agadmator's video on the Evergreen game.

After watching it, she wasn't impressed. She thought all of the moves were pretty obvious. I tried not to roll my eyes, but everything makes sense when someone explains to you why they are played. But the odds that Sophia would come up with those moves herself? Zero.

I watch Gotham chess, he’s funny and I feel that I learn from him.

Considerably more than watching anything by chessvibes. In fact, I watched a chessvibes video, and it slowly made me unlearn chess.

@kevinosh how about we try an experiment.  Let's figure out a way to baseline your current abilities.  Watch all the videos... and then let's create another benchmark of your ability.  No idea what that baseline or benchmarking is... perhaps it's your chess rating?  accuracy?  tactics rating?

If you are passively watching the videos... I don't know how much they would help you.  Everyone learns differently.

How much will my golf game improve if I were to watch 200 videos on the golf swing?

You’ll be giving lessons to @AlCzervik

I learned alot from videos. Oufcourse i dont only watch, i play and do puzzle to. 

But watching videos is like going to a math class at university and between class you practice on your own. 

There are diffrent ways to learn. I like to watch chess videos. I might borrow a chessbook latet to try that out to. 

Some people here sound like you cant learn from videos. That is not correct. And its not only about chess. I fixed cars myself with help of youtube videos when facing problems i have not seen before. 

It's very true that you cant learn much from passively watching video. The operative word there is 'passively.' But if you focus on one opening and watch how good players play it, the main lines and responses to variations, and popular decline lines, I'd say you're on the right track. Listen to the pro's pointers. Try to remember it and understand the reasoning and tactical opportunities that arise against popular defences. Try to follow the game plan every game and not 'wing it,' until your preparation is exhausted. If you lose the plot, rewatch the video, analyse the game. Try it again. Supplement this with puzzles. If your opponent busts you with something unexpected, look around, there'll be a video... I watched one a while ago where M.Carlsen solved a problem that busted me with a backwards horsey detour involving an in-between move to save a tempo... lol. I wasn't too upset with myself after seeing that. The point is none of that's passive. And I don't have a favourite presenter. You can't learn to box just by watching Tyson, but chess is a mental game. And don't kid yourself, pro athletes watch a lot of video of themselves and their opponents nowadays. I've got plenty to learn in chess before I pay for instructional content. 

Golf swings are physical. If you have one video of a good golf swing and video of your own attempts to compare against it, you'll improve a lot if you're observant and persistent. 

Watching videos of a good swing, and comparing it to videos of your own will result in a tiny improvement--at best. You need to swing that club, over and over again.

In the same way, watching chess videos can help your chess game--a little. But only if you also play lots of chess and actively analyze your own games. 

that would be like me watching 200 chess videos and giving you lessons!

As long a you watch the right videos. Maybe you can help me with the Italian. I’m trying to break free of the Greco Attack.

Very true! But also, if you want to become a better chess player, you need to play chess! Even the most concentrated study will take you just so far. Then, you've got to start fighting your own battles, making your own decisions, doing your own calculations, and analyzing your own losses

I recently started a youtube channel to teach chess for this exact reason. I was watching a lot of agadmator but not really getting any better. I think you have to find instructional videos that talk about concepts at your level. Sure its great to watch agad describe how Magnus converts a drawish position in a king and passed pawn versus knight endgame, but how does that help the 1300 hundred who can't stop hanging pawns?

Anyway, check out my videos at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIM4R8sfe96FQKw9RiiZsUA

I just did introductory videos on the sicilian defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGIUqU_2UE&ab_channel=MTXChess

and the queen's gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu_fNl3LUfQ&ab_channel=MTXChess

Cheers!

I highly recommend ChessNetwork since he is by far the best teacher available on youtube, especially his game reviews which he used to do and deep analysis of GM games.

Having said that, watching anyone won't improve your chess by much

i improved tremendously from watching his videos as on another site i went all the way past 2000 and here i feel like i have the power to create my own future and become 2000 as well