Chess in Danger of Dying of Too Much Competence

David Llada is a journalist, enterpreneur, book worm, fixer, photographer, chess addict, gambler, media consultant, and FIDE CMO/CCO (chief marketing and communications officer).

He's a very nice guy. Sometimes a bit sarcastic ("I speak fluent sarcasm, that's my mother tongue.").

David posted the below tweet on Twiter last night. Couldn't help replying to him and a certain agadmator.

So many people are producing tons of content nowadays (books, e-books, videos) that, it seems, chess is in danger of dying of too much "competence" around.

Don't really understand the point of your Twitter comment. For sure anyone can have it's own favourite chess game no matter his level of understanding. And I suppose the reference to agadmator refers to something she said in her streams or to a conversation the two had. What's the problem, I don't get it ?

Also I don't think there can be too much content produced, as long as there is not less quality content produced. Maybe the average quality could drop, but even that is not a given... And what matters is not the average quality but how much good contents are released.

I thought Agadmator was a guy.....show you how much I know!

Here is a recent video from Agadmator's Channel.....

She sure has a raspy voice if not a guy. Maybe too much alcohol and tobacco? I know some women who live on coffee and cigarettes until the beer flows after dinner. They have voices like agadmator.

IM John Donaldson recently made the claim that 90% of the best chess books have been published in the past twenty years. When I see him in late February, I'm gonna grill him about some of my favorites: Jose Capablanca, Chess Fundamentals and A Primer of Chess; Renaud and Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate. Fischer, My 60 Memorable Games; Alekhine, My Best Games, 2 vols; Donaldson and Minev, Akiva Rubinstein: Uncrowned King, 2 vols.

Have these books lost their value?

idk

Well I love that game too. Fischer’s deflection of Fine’s queen with a pawn to force mate is amazing. And to think the whole thing was a blitz game!

By the by, Fischer was like World Champ too and Fine a definite candidate and those are the players Llada suggests we learn from, not some candidate master who has a YouTube channel. Just saying.

I have to agree. Today I was looking at Agadmator's video, and some of his comments were rather silly.

Not at all!

Alekhine's "My Best Games" was the book I learned chess from.....I like Minev's books on Rubinstein, as well as many other classics.

I find that great Masters (who were really Grandmasters) of the past were very good at communicating concepts and understanding of chess. Their emphasis was on teaching and sharing, and not on showing they could calculate many variations.

Nimzowitsch, Tartakower, Bronstein, Tal, Gufeld, are some of my favorites.

I don't get the point of this thread...

https://www.chess.com/blog/Illingworth/why-99-of-youtube-videos-arent-helping-you

Find the thread of a chess book and tag on it till the idea comes bare.