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One of the best yt channels for opening study is HangingPawns: https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns Just great for sta

by tuvi13 4y ago

One of the best yt channels for opening study is HangingPawns: https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns Just great for starters and advanced players. Stjepan is a great teacher and 2013 ELO so not a GM but on the way towards that goal.

greedo 4y ago
Eh, I find Stjepan a bit too scattered in his discussion. He takes tangents that can confuse beginners (under 1200 or so) when trying to comprehend the openings he is discussing. Learning from online YTubers/Twitch streamers can be a mixed bag. They make the moves seem so easy and logical, without explaining a lot of the why's. Danya is one I love to watch, but he just sees things that players below his level have a hard time envisioning. Rosen is the chillest to watch, but his love of dubious gambits can encourage bad habits as well.
- michaelt 4y ago
  I don't know much about chess, but in other fields I've come to suspect the youtube video market for detailed education is both a lot smaller, and a lot more time-consuming to serve than the market for topic-themed entertainment For example, imagine I'm restoring a classic 1980s Mini. There's a lot of detail that's only really interesting to people who are actually doing the same task - which is hardly anyone. That's not going to be a highly-rated youtube series. Whereas a magazine series that shows restored classic cars and provides some details and advice, but keeps things light enough you can half-watch while eating and you won't miss too much? Much more accessible, much bigger audience.
  - jowsie 4y ago
    > For example, imagine I'm restoring a classic 1980s Mini. There's a lot of detail that's only really interesting to people who are actually doing the same task - which is hardly anyone. That's not going to be a highly-rated youtube series. Project Binky goes against this, great series https://www.youtube.com/c/BadObsessionMotorsport https://www.youtube.com/c/BadObsessionMotorsport
    - michaelt 4y ago
      I like Project Binky, it's great viewing. But it's kinda on the border of proving my point. After all, nobody is following along at home, putting a Toyota Celica engine into their own mini. When they need to make a wiring harness, or configure an ECU, they're not showing it one cable and one adjustment at a time - that would make for very boring viewing, even if it would be useful as reference material for anyone trying to reproduce their project. Just like a chess youtuber, very few of Project Binky's viewers are there to study, following along with pencil and paper. Most of their viewers are there to be entertained. I will admit their videos are substantially more technical than most on Youtube. But because of that, they don't make enough money to go full-time. Actually doing the work constrains them to a video every 1-2 months. In contrast, Hikaru has put out 13 youtube videos in the last 7 days. Rapid-fire, easily accessible content with broad audience appeal brings in the ad revenue that makes a channel self-supporting. Slowly produced, niche content for study and reference has to be subsidised by the youtuber having another job.

by tuvi13 4y ago

greedo 4y ago

Eh, I find Stjepan a bit too scattered in his discussion. He takes tangents that can confuse beginners (under 1200 or so) when trying to comprehend the openings he is discussing. Learning from online YTubers/Twitch streamers can be a mixed bag. They make the moves seem so easy and logical, without explaining a lot of the why's. Danya is one I love to watch, but he just sees things that players below his level have a hard time envisioning. Rosen is the chillest to watch, but his love of dubious gambits can encourage bad habits as well.

michaelt 4y ago
I don't know much about chess, but in other fields I've come to suspect the youtube video market for detailed education is both a lot smaller, and a lot more time-consuming to serve than the market for topic-themed entertainment For example, imagine I'm restoring a classic 1980s Mini. There's a lot of detail that's only really interesting to people who are actually doing the same task - which is hardly anyone. That's not going to be a highly-rated youtube series. Whereas a magazine series that shows restored classic cars and provides some details and advice, but keeps things light enough you can half-watch while eating and you won't miss too much? Much more accessible, much bigger audience.
- jowsie 4y ago
  > For example, imagine I'm restoring a classic 1980s Mini. There's a lot of detail that's only really interesting to people who are actually doing the same task - which is hardly anyone. That's not going to be a highly-rated youtube series. Project Binky goes against this, great series https://www.youtube.com/c/BadObsessionMotorsport https://www.youtube.com/c/BadObsessionMotorsport
  - michaelt 4y ago
    I like Project Binky, it's great viewing. But it's kinda on the border of proving my point. After all, nobody is following along at home, putting a Toyota Celica engine into their own mini. When they need to make a wiring harness, or configure an ECU, they're not showing it one cable and one adjustment at a time - that would make for very boring viewing, even if it would be useful as reference material for anyone trying to reproduce their project. Just like a chess youtuber, very few of Project Binky's viewers are there to study, following along with pencil and paper. Most of their viewers are there to be entertained. I will admit their videos are substantially more technical than most on Youtube. But because of that, they don't make enough money to go full-time. Actually doing the work constrains them to a video every 1-2 months. In contrast, Hikaru has put out 13 youtube videos in the last 7 days. Rapid-fire, easily accessible content with broad audience appeal brings in the ad revenue that makes a channel self-supporting. Slowly produced, niche content for study and reference has to be subsidised by the youtuber having another job.