I WANT TO BECOME THE NUMBER ONE CHESS YOUTUBER!

Hmm, I guess so.

I think a lot of beginners were fooled by him though, and were genuinely enjoying his videos for the chess.

Yeah lol, my dad, a beginner who's now an OK player, actually started watching the BYP's videos, thinking they were good, until I told him they were worse than useless. 

byp is rated 1200.

when he gets an extra thousand, I'll take him seriously

700* 

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?14908848

OP singing:
♪I wanna be, the very best, like no one ever was...♪

I puked in disgust how bold that guy is. I'm 2000, still don't feel strong enough to teach as confidently as him.

I asked a guy rated 2200 if he has any students. He told me he's not good enough.

I think people don't realize the kinds of difficulties and questions beginners have. 2200 (and 2000) is definitely good enough to answer basic stuff.

For example I had a kid tell me he doesn't like to castle because then you might have a back rank mate happen to you (I think he had recently learned about back rank mate ideas). That sort of misunderstanding isn't hard to correct.

Do you have the PGN's of his OTB games?

You quickly realize that the main problem players under 1600 USCF have is hanging easy blunders in simple positions because they don't calculate anything or at least check for safety. 

The second biggest problem is weak players trying to apply specific positional ideas they've seen before, but don't understand, incorrectly (or not with tactical soundness), without learning the basics first.

These things can be best understood and quickly corrected by any decent teacher at least 1800. 

A GM, on the other hand, probably forgot about all these things 15 years ago when they stopped becoming issues. 

And yes:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-backyard-professors-uscf-rated-games

Pretty sure @vladimirherceg91 would be able to beat him without trouble

Take your tongue out of your cheek. 

Hmm, what's an example of applying a positional idea they don't understand?

Would that be something like, I don't know... saying they're doing a pawn storm to make a passed pawn, but it's only move 10, they're behind in development, and also there's no way to make a passed pawn?

That's probably too much of an exaggeration, but I'm just wondering what you might give as an example.

I agree about the GM stuff. Also when they start very young, things click and on day they might gain 1 or 2 hundred rating points. If that happened to any of us, we wouldn't know exactly why, it just happens and we can't teach it. 

I would say that doubled pawns is by far the best example for this. Lots of beginners hate doubled pawns for some reason, even when they're beneficial/neutral. Piece activity and material, far more general, basic positional factors, can tell you when they're good/bad - they are not bad when the lack of mobility of the pawns doesn't restrict your pieces movement or are easily targeted, and can be good when they open lines for your pieces (most often an open file). So if they relied on activity+material as evaluations, they'd play much better. 

For example, in this game, on move 9, my 1800 USCF opponent gave away the bishop pair to give me doubled, isolated pawns, which were actually good for me:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/dangerous-pawngrabbing-in-unfamiliar-positions-instructive-annotated-game

Oh yeah, doubled pawns, that's an excellent example.

I remember doing that myself after first learning about them. Eventually I found out it's not an automatic win lol (I really thought it was a big deal).

I mean exactly what I said - this guy's never beaten anyone higher than 700. 

wow wow wow never got so many replies

I had totally forgot about the backyard professor. I need to rewatch those, they were so funny, lol

 You should contact Kingscrusher and see if you guys can do a duet. Like play each other with both of you commentating. 

Nice way to kill brain cells lol.