How good is the Backyard Professor?

An allusion to questions remaining to be answered.

Is it possible to stick to the thread or would you rather end the subject?

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I  will end my input with this: those who like BYP  and find themselves  wanting to experience more chess continue your journey.  Decide for yourself whether you like BYP OR NOT.  Zirab, not sure of the exact book, but is probably in vol.1 in fundamentals series.  That is the book I remember him holding.

And since BYP owns only 1 book this is useful information.

(Or that's a lie, and the information is rubbish)

Boost Your Chess: The Fundamentals, vol. 1?

I have Build Up Your Chess: The Fundamentals, vol. 1 and the game is not listed in the index.

Found a video of him touting Yusupov's series. The video was made about a month after the one we've been discussing. https://youtu.be/9v2bqdOJ-KA

In the index of Boost Your Chess 1, I found Dragun-Sandrin and Dubinin-Ilivitzki, but not Dreev-Arkhipov.

Facts are always getting in the way of his visions.

You guys are so mean.

He had a picture in his mind that BYP was a good teacher too.

But seriously, this is pretty funny, a vignette of how you need evidence since reality isn't always whatever you wish were true by the BYP defender himself.

I agree. I love his enthusiasm. I'd rather watch an instructive beginner than a boring GM who doesn't explain **** about his moves. I find myself glued to his vides all the time because he contextualizes the game. He explains well in a way so difficult to forget. We need more of him. 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-backyard-professor?page=57

He actually just reads out of books. Legit none of the ideas in his videos are his, and the ones that are are fundamentally incorrect (or at least are very flawed and general). Sure, his enthusiasm is awesome, and I used to love watching his videos maybe a year and a half ago (I was like 700 then), and found some stuff useful.

But unfortunately, if I even watch them anymore, I would watch them on x2 speed (I normally watch youtube on x1.75 speed anyways) because there is just so much "fluff". A lot of what he says isn't necessary, and the part that is is from the book he quoting. 

A backyard professor classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQwEyr5qwws

Indeed. Gross positional ignorance, tactical failure, and fabrication of nonsense attributed (incorrectly) to Jeremy Silman. His signature video.

maybe try the more recent ones?

Life is short and I’m not getting younger.

....just curious.

wooda frontyard professor be a formally-trained & educated s/t or other ?

He replied to a comment on one of his recent videos which asked if he was 1600 strength with:

"oh, if I am lucky. I think at one time last year I was in that area, but realistically, not right now."

what's your take on this Ziryab?

Such a self-assessment is an unhealthy sign. He may need professional help.

There is a possibility that he has improved. His recent videos seem slightly better. But he remains an inactive player. To get better, one needs to play.

In 1995, I joined the Spokane Chess Club. I told the president that I thought I was an A Class player because that’s the score I would usually get with Bruce Pandolfini’s Solitare Chess in Chess Life. I am indeed an A Class player, and reached that level in 2008. I achieved a rating over 1600 for the first time in 2005.

Turns out that my estimate was two classes high. I was a C Player, and remained one for about a decade before rising into B Class.

The point: it is very difficult to be objective when self-estimating your own rating. 1600 is hard to achieve for a player with knowledge and experience. BYP has far more defects in his understanding than most. I doubt his “improvement” has yet equipped him to play at 1000 strength.

He analyzed my game against Anand! (a friend sent it to him)