Do you like Levy Rozman?
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It’s chess not comedy
M1m1c15 wrote:
It’s chess not comedy
Tell that to Levy. Maybe he'll stop joking then. 
Well he wants the videos to be entertaining and informative
M1m1c15 wrote:
Well he wants the videos to be entertaining and informative
I dare say his videos nowadays are neither! 
Lots of argumentative forums created by you recently, huh? He’s entertaining, and I laugh at his jokes from time to time, and he’s the reason I got into chess. I watch him a lot, but not religiously like some people I know. 8/10.
Rook a4
InsertInterestingNameHere wrote:
Lots of argumentative forums created by you recently, huh? He’s entertaining, and I laugh at his jokes from time to time, and he’s the reason I got into chess. I watch him a lot, but not religiously like some people I know. 8/10.
Not my problem if you can't handle my hot takes. 
just kidding
Everybody likes Levy.
Yep
DreamscapeHorizons wrote:
Everybody likes Levy.
Not all ogres like Levy, though!
I don’t think he’s very good at teaching. Sure he’s engaging but once I watched a Scandinavian defense video from him and then ran his suggestions through the engine and they were not very good. He seems pro and and opinionated. I stay away from his channel.
Jalex13 wrote:
I don’t think he’s very good at teaching. Sure he’s engaging but once I watched a Scandinavian defense video from him and then ran his suggestions through the engine and they were not very good. He seems pro and and opinionated. I stay away from his channel.
You may argue that Levy's way of teaching isn't the best, because passive learning (listening to a video) isn't the best way to study this game anyway, and his content is mostly for newcomers.
But when he recommends a sub-par line it's because it's a practical line, almost no opponent will play the top engine moves and he gets you prepared for everything.
Some positions are evaluated as inferior by the engine, but easier to play for humans, it's how most of his recommendations work.
His main recommendation, c5 against advance Caro (botvinnik-carls) is not the best, and certainly not the mainline (bf4) but it still is practical and scores well for intermediates like me.
Apr 11, 2022
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Jalex13 wrote:
I don’t think he’s very good at teaching. Sure he’s engaging but once I watched a Scandinavian defense video from him and then ran his suggestions through the engine and they were not very good. He seems pro and and opinionated. I stay away from his channel.
That is really unfair to Levy. Levy's goals are not to make you a GM. His goals are simply to get his students to win, even if it is by an inferior line that a GM won't play, simply because his student's opponents are not GMs. The lines he chooses are often very simple to understand by his students, but harder to respond to by his student's opponent's.
Apr 11, 2022
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InsertInterestingNameHere wrote:
His main recommendation, c5 against advance Caro (botvinnik-carls) is not the best, and certainly not the mainline (bf4) but it still is practical and scores well for intermediates like me.
c5 has been becoming popular recently. I was at k12 nationals last weekend, and I saw IM Anthony He (2460) play it against IM Arthur Guo (2509). He (the last name) lost, but I don't think it was due to opening. Also, it was quite interesting - Guo played a strange line based off of an early Qg4.
binomine wrote:
Jalex13 wrote:
I don’t think he’s very good at teaching. Sure he’s engaging but once I watched a Scandinavian defense video from him and then ran his suggestions through the engine and they were not very good. He seems pro and and opinionated. I stay away from his channel.
That is really unfair to Levy. Levy's goals are not to make you a GM. His goals are simply to get his students to win, even if it is by an inferior line that a GM won't play, simply because his student's opponents are not GMs. The lines he chooses are often very simple to understand by his students, but harder to respond to by his student's opponent's.
His goal is to make money you bozo
I think Levy has some decent content, but he is certainly obnoxious at times! Needs improvements on his jokes...
What do you think?