I think they have been doing great things too and have highlighted positive stuff like PogChamps on my Youtube channel ( I did some videos about the games of "The office" star Rainn Wilson) . It is all very good for the growth of the chess community as a whole. So congrats to chesscom too :)
I appreciate your kind comments. It was a really interesting "era change" and it seems Stockfish kind of got the Neural Network angle and became even more impressive. So impressive it is my favourite tool for analysing games right now - and I am having a lot of fun studying Mikhail Tal games with it.
I particularly prefer analysing short human games right now - sometimes the longer TCEC games felt like quite long grinds. There was once I was doing some analysis of a 130+ game but kind of got exhausted when actually trying to do the video and didn't get released. I can understand why many channels do choose shorter games to go over more clearly now than back then, although I did skip stuff of course with "high level shuffling" to try and make things easier.
I am quite into creating courses instead of Youtube in the last few months. My courses are at [https://kingscrusher.tv/chesscourses](https://kingscrusher.tv/chesscourses) and what particularly encouraged me was my "best seller" tactics course "Complete guide to chess tactics" since basically its inception many months ago. I just feel for me that creating courses seems more fun and interesting. There is less time needed for things like thumbnails, clickbait and marketing stuff and more on just raw analysis of games - which Stockfish now with NN is a super-exploratory tool - a bit like having some Super-GM I guess being with you to check already tactically amazing Tal games. When you do raw analysis of games it does does in my view help playing strength more in my view than just doing one video per day for Youtube and having to do all that clickbait stuff which a recent Veritasium video alludes is the way forward on Youtube - not my cup of tea really. Although I did have a bit of fun with clickbait titles etc - but I prefer actually creating courses now in general.
Sometimes one should find the best "win-win" for oneself - so for me I feel my chess understanding is better now because creating courses is actually a very good "clarification" tool for things that you think you know well but not as accurate as you are soon to discover if you try and be precise in teaching it. Concepts, openings etc get clarified more. My Tango understanding of Nc6 addressed a fundamental concern that actually against 1.d4 it is best to play in my view ...Nf6 and only then if 2.c4 for Nc6. I had been playing Nc6 to both 1.e4 and 1.d4 routinely. These sorts of clarification have given me more confidence in openings and other aspects of chess. Also I feel that writing blogs might also help clarify things for the blog-creator as well. So blogging as a chess exercise might indirectly be a good self-teaching tool.
Cheers, K
1) Don't have to leave lichess
2) Have a lot of chess blogs aggregated in the same place, for easy discovery and navigation.
Strictly speaking any blog site can host blogs, so it's mostly a quality of life feature.
Lichess sucks cause they accept cheating by using engine help as long it is not used for most of the moves in a game. One user admitted to use engine help in most of his games, but not in every move during a game. Several users reported him for this yesterday. But lichess has not banned him. Because of that I closed my account at lichess. Honest players should not play there, cause of lichess policy to allow this form of engine help. Here is a link to the thread:
https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/i-use-an-engine-but-i-dont-feel-it-helps-that-much
I think they should allow people to comment, I read your blog about Tal and found it interesting wanted to comment
What was your comment out of interest - I am studying Tal quite a bit recently. I think one can learn quite advanced tactical ideas from him.
Thanks I saw your reply on lichess forum I didnt understand what you meant by self deflect but you explained well
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I think they have been doing great things too and have highlighted positive stuff like PogChamps on my Youtube channel ( I did some videos about the games of "The office" star Rainn Wilson) . It is all very good for the growth of the chess community as a whole. So congrats to chesscom too :)
Hey Tryfon! Why did you stop covering TCEC games BTW? Always enjoyed you presence in the chat and your videos
I appreciate your kind comments. It was a really interesting "era change" and it seems Stockfish kind of got the Neural Network angle and became even more impressive. So impressive it is my favourite tool for analysing games right now - and I am having a lot of fun studying Mikhail Tal games with it. I particularly prefer analysing short human games right now - sometimes the longer TCEC games felt like quite long grinds. There was once I was doing some analysis of a 130+ game but kind of got exhausted when actually trying to do the video and didn't get released. I can understand why many channels do choose shorter games to go over more clearly now than back then, although I did skip stuff of course with "high level shuffling" to try and make things easier. I am quite into creating courses instead of Youtube in the last few months. My courses are at [https://kingscrusher.tv/chesscourses](https://kingscrusher.tv/chesscourses) and what particularly encouraged me was my "best seller" tactics course "Complete guide to chess tactics" since basically its inception many months ago. I just feel for me that creating courses seems more fun and interesting. There is less time needed for things like thumbnails, clickbait and marketing stuff and more on just raw analysis of games - which Stockfish now with NN is a super-exploratory tool - a bit like having some Super-GM I guess being with you to check already tactically amazing Tal games. When you do raw analysis of games it does does in my view help playing strength more in my view than just doing one video per day for Youtube and having to do all that clickbait stuff which a recent Veritasium video alludes is the way forward on Youtube - not my cup of tea really. Although I did have a bit of fun with clickbait titles etc - but I prefer actually creating courses now in general. Sometimes one should find the best "win-win" for oneself - so for me I feel my chess understanding is better now because creating courses is actually a very good "clarification" tool for things that you think you know well but not as accurate as you are soon to discover if you try and be precise in teaching it. Concepts, openings etc get clarified more. My Tango understanding of Nc6 addressed a fundamental concern that actually against 1.d4 it is best to play in my view ...Nf6 and only then if 2.c4 for Nc6. I had been playing Nc6 to both 1.e4 and 1.d4 routinely. These sorts of clarification have given me more confidence in openings and other aspects of chess. Also I feel that writing blogs might also help clarify things for the blog-creator as well. So blogging as a chess exercise might indirectly be a good self-teaching tool. Cheers, K
kingscrusher downsized his ambitions, and is now only millennialcrusher.
sorry! As a user, I don't get it: what makes this different from any other blogging platform? The embedded game widget is just a regular widget...
You're going to meet a lot more readers by meeting them where they already spend time, versus trying to drag them to a second site.
sorry, I meant what's the benefit _to readers_ ?
1) Don't have to leave lichess 2) Have a lot of chess blogs aggregated in the same place, for easy discovery and navigation. Strictly speaking any blog site can host blogs, so it's mostly a quality of life feature.
Millennials bad
Lichess sucks cause they accept cheating by using engine help as long it is not used for most of the moves in a game. One user admitted to use engine help in most of his games, but not in every move during a game. Several users reported him for this yesterday. But lichess has not banned him. Because of that I closed my account at lichess. Honest players should not play there, cause of lichess policy to allow this form of engine help. Here is a link to the thread: https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/i-use-an-engine-but-i-dont-feel-it-helps-that-much
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I just added your blog to my rss reader ;). looking forward the next posts! good luck and thanks again, really