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Good chess YouTubers for beginners?
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Jul 8, 2024
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#44
GothamChess is just recapping. Personally I would say Chess Talk since they are not too complacated unlike Hikaru or Nara
A friend of mine who is just starting to play chess has found a series of videos by Nelson Lopez. I watched a couple and think they are very good for people under 1500. Lopez has started to go through the games in Chernev’s book, Logical Chess Move By Move, which is a book that I have been recommending to beginners for years.
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AunTheKnight wrote:
25GSchatz22 wrote:
agadmator, gothamchess, ericrosen, hikaru, chess.com
Hikaru is somewhat debatable educationally.
Gotham even more so. I highly recommend Igor smirnov of Remote Chess academy. He is excellent. I started watching his videos and went from being a 400 rapid to being 700 and consistently beating higher rated people. (many 800s, many 900s, about five to seven 1000s, one or two 1100s one 1300 and I've drawn a 1200.
Aug 29, 2024
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#48
My YouTube channel is good for someone who is just past the beginner stage. It’s called novice chess channel. https://youtube.com/@novicechesschannel?si=I-OoOhDR6hPfZ1ea
All youtubers mentioned here make good content and are entertaining. Will it help an absolute beginner? Imo to a limited degree. I think that watching youtube videos is WAY too passive to improve at a reasonable speed especially at the beginner level (2400s may look at Hikarus games and learn a lot but a 400? No). I'd suggest something more active:
a)puzzles
b)looking at/recreating games and trying to understand what's happening, this can be done inside chess.com or pulling games from a database - even games from said youtubers
c)looking at at least one opening from each side beyond the first 5 moves, can be done inside chess.com or with the aid of a book. It's not really important which opening, just that you think about why a certain opening is like it is and how a lot of chess basics for openings apply (maybe don't look at the gambit openings tho).
d)and last but not least like I'm sure ppl have already recommended in this thread: play chess and analyze your wins/losses
Aug 30, 2024
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#51
OutOfCheese wrote:
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d)and last but not least like I'm sure ppl have already recommended in this thread: play chess and analyze your wins/losses
I think this is most important. Looking at your first opening mistake. Looking for the tactics you missed by reviewing the game with a computer engine. And endgames are so important. Not every endgame is going to have something really instructive. But some will. For example if you lose an endgame and you were up material, you can try the 'practice vs computer' feature and 'change bot' and practice winning the position. Use take-backs and hints. My most recent video is about how to do this and I provide a link to the position, so you can easily click on it and start practicing the position. https://youtu.be/DSBtcO0M-tQ?si=32ljHikJXvjakI1C
:)