Ever since I played my first chess match, I haven't bought a book—I went on YouTube. And since the beginning of my chess journey, I've been watching GothamChess and Hikaru. Their videos really helped me improve.
What chess YouTuber do you watch? :)
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I like Chess with Akeem: https://www.youtube.com/@ChesswithAkeem
Nice! I remember watching a video about a Sicilian variation on his channel a while ago. :)
Chessbrah, although they stream on Kick and put the edited videos on YouTube after. The best experience is to watch them on Kick as you get the real music (they need to swap out for YT due to copyright). On the other hand you can get a mixed bag as they don't always play chess (Counterstrike and Geoguesser feature a lot) and GMs Eric and Aman often leave the stream to members of the community who might be 2000 elo or might be 800 elo depending on the day.
On YT for streamers I would say I like Chess Vibes the best. Nelson is an NM and plays mainly rapid which I find easier to follow than blitz. He plays attacking chess like the kind Morphy played. Always looking to be aggressive and sac and find tactics to win. His calculation and tactical pattern recognition is really first rate. I also like that he plays really varied openings. He streams Wednesdays and Saturdays and usually does a good 3-4 hours in a sitting.
Cool, I watched some videos of Chessbrah myself when I saw them on my feed (on YouTube) and I found them educational and fun at the same time. Same with Chess Vibes. I don't really watch streams though, because when I watch chess content I often search for specific videos (like openings, tactics...)
Leeeeeevy.
THE ROOOOK!!
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Interesting, I haven't watched much of his content except for the match against Magnus.
Wow, he even has his own bot on chess.com :)
(Dont mind my water background)
This guy is incredible; in the spanish-speaking community he’s perhaps the best known, he goes out on the street to play with people and has incredible games against other famous chess players, not only Magnus. He must be someone well known in his field, but he prefers to remain anonymous, which I think is great ♟️
this game was awesome
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I started with GothamChess too. His videos are easy to follow for beginners. Do you play blitz or rapid more?
You clearly have good taste in chess YouTubers! I mainly play rapid because I learn the most from it and don't run out of time as often as I do in blitz. What time control do you usually play? :)
GothamChess for me too! I like how he explains moves without making everything too complicated. His game recaps are pretty entertaining as well, even when I'm just watching casually....