Who is that guy? Uhhh go look up Grandmaster explains I think its Jan Markos who commentates modern chess games.

jrobichess = chessnetwork?

who is this guy? I love to hear him talking about chess

No, not the same guy. According to their profiles, Chessnetwork is a 32 year old, self taught NM from the US, who has been playing chess for 24 years. Jrobi is Canadian, 36, and started playing in 2007. 

Dan Heisman=good techer

I remember jrobi, in his first videos, telling viewers that he liked to move his rook pawns one square in the opening, to prevent knight hops from opponents.

It's not a horrible thing to teach, but neither is it correct. When I first started playing internet chess (and OTB chess), I followed his advice and pushed my rook pawns to avoid bishops pinning my knights, and enemy knights  from hopping over the fence. It made the game easier to play in the beginning, but after reading a few books on chess, and watching David Pruess videos on tempo, I learned that rook-pawn moves in the opening, for most openings, waste tempi.

It's too bad that jrobi doesn't have a Class A or higher understanding of chess, because he has a nice style of teaching.

For really basic instruction on openings, I found The Chess Website guy to be good, even though he's not a titled player, and it's free to watch.

I think that King Crusher (sp?) is the strongest player who offers free video instruction on youtube, but most of what he seems to cover is for advanced players. I will watch a few of his live games, just for fun.

I like Keven's teaching from The Chess Website, for basic stuff. The guy from The ChessNetwork is a NM, and he is really good, for higher level stuff.

No one beats Dan Heisman for beginning-intermediate chess players. I watch his videos (not free), over at The Internet Chess Club (ICC). He just started video lessons here, at chess.com.

thanks, is he keeping his identity private?

I think that King Crusher (sp?) is the strongest player who offers free video instruction on youtube, but most of what he seems to cover is for advanced players. I will watch a few of his live games, just for fun (musikamole)

"ChessExplained" is a Dutch IM on YouTube and so far the stronger player to offer videos (if you don't count GM excerpts from Chessbase & co.). However KingCrusher is a strong positional player, and though he is actually rated ~2150, I wouldn't be surprised if he breaks 2200 in the future.  

He doesn't upload much to his youtube, but NM Amazingoid has a really good twitch stream that he does regularly.  There is a lot of game observation without commentary, (he'll often observe and just talk in the chat) but his commentary and game analysis have really started to help my game.  You can find his channel/video archive here.  http://www.twitch.tv/amazingoid/videos

I'm not a very good player and require a lot of study.  I watch chess videos every day and I strongly disagree that kingscrusher's videos are beneficial.  I can see he is a great player, but it does not translate to him teaching the game well.  His blitz videos especially do not teach me anything.  The game is too short and rushed.  He is very difficult to understand, not because of his accent, but because he mumbles and does not enunciate well.  Part of the reason seems to be that he is speaking to *himself* and is thinking out loud.  Many of these statements are *questions* (and incomplete at that) he is asking himself, and he often does not provide an answer.  He also does not speak in complete sentences and also interjects emotional exclamations that offer no insight and only reveals that he is stressed or excited.

An example of his typical dialogue is, "fhfhfnbd...c three...bfhvgje....f eight...maybe c five??...to d-one...he might go h-one...then bishop d five??....hgbhbdgf...OH! c five!....fhjhgh" all of that in the matter of 3 seconds, and it keeps repeating until the end of the game.  At no point during the play does he say *why* he makes any decision.  It's all a bunch of coordinates with no ryhme or reason why he is rambling them off.  Then when he has an opportunity to review the game, he clicks through 90% of the moves at lightning speed and totally blows over anything the average player is seeking answers to.

i like chess network the most for beginner, intermediate. Easy to understand

jrobi normally doesn't know what he's talking about. The problem is not that he is a weak player with shallow understanding, but that he posts his ignorance on Youtube.

Personally, I think Jerry from the Chessnetwork's videos are the best, one reason being that instead of rambling like KC when playing bullet tournaments, he makes comments about what he's doing and why, and you can actually hear what he's saying (vs KC where half of what he says isn't understandable)

Jrobichess happens to be a very nice person, I sent him some emails and his replies were friendly and to the point. His videos are great for beginners and intermediate players, he goes over the basic openings and basic ideas in chess. Beyond that you should spend a few bucks for a membership in chess.com and watch the videos here.

If he wants to spread his love for chess by making videos, great.  More power to him.

If he wants to mix in solid beginner advice while he's at it, even better.

But contrary to his "bloging and vloging" line, he takes the role of instructor, and makes all kinds of analysis comments that are inaccurate if not completely wrong.

Some of his comments are good, but attempting to teach beyond what he understands is a disservice to chess players IMO.  And because of this I have a very low opinion of his videos.

What about Daniel King, what do you think of his commentry ? 

Hey KCO, I like Daniel King a great deal. He and I talked a bit during the last world championship match between Anand and Gelfand. When I'm not teaching chess, I play/tour with a couple of bands. Daniel is also a bass player and plays in three bands so we chat about that as well. During the world championship, I got a chance to go through his game analysis in detail because I was addiing commentary to his commentary. Thus I got to see his commentary and teaching style close up. He is very good at it. However, my favorite commentator/teacher is IM Andrew Martin. Andrew gives clear concise move by move analysis that even a novice player could learn from. Andrew is also great about emailing you back when you have a qeustion. Nigel Davis is also a good commentator/instructor.

If you want the best chess web site you must be talking about Mato Jelic. Everyone else is secondary. Just type ' matojelic videos', and you learn more about openings, tactics and sacrifices in his (approx) 10minute analysis. He has written two books, but he never mentions them during his analysis.         Mato is a Croatian who now lives in Adelaide, Australia. He runs his own chess  club for Schools. Even if you've got your favourite watch his game against Spassky in a simul. Not only did the GM offer him a draw, but he gives a short background on how he got started in chess in Australia. It's definitely worth 10 minutes of your time.

I have some dvd's made by Andrew Martin and they are very good especially for intermediate players like myself. I also like his working class British accent, does anyone know exactly where he is from, Liverpool perhaps? His vids on Youtube are also very good. Most of the chess videos on the internet are very good but since there is not enough time in the world to watch all of them you should pick and choose the ones that are most suitable for you in terms of playing strength and whether or nice you like their accent. For example some of the videos are made by people with very heavy accents and you have to concentrate to just figure out what they are saying and this takes away from your concentration on the material they are trying to present.  

Liverpool? does he sound like Paul McCartney?

he's a cockney, West Ham. He's the Alf Garnett of chess(without the bigotry).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhJwhDtacY