Full chess course by josh waitzkin +70 videos

[integral]

70 video full chess course by josh waitzkin

This is a solid and mesmerizing chess course from the past. Its a classic and if you finish the course it will give you a solid chess foundation to build from.

Don't be fooled by watching videos from Hikaru or Gotham chess. That stuff is pure entertainment, and far from what you actually need to make progress and improve.

You're never going to learn the foundational principles of Psychology of chess by watching Hikaru or Gotham.

Even the most basic concepts like patience cannot be found on YouTube that's how lost all of that material is.

Chess is about developing a deep patient contemplative ability that you slowly refine over time.

Edited January 3 by integral

[integral]

I can't overstate how ineffective watching YouTube content is for learning chess in today's age.

Even the most basic concepts like how to maintain tension or what tension is isn't communicated.

Nothing at all is communicated.

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Some ideas are so effective that if you just keep that idea in mind consciously throughout the entire game You'll play completely different style of chess, instead of defaulting on your basic patterns.

For example you can be aware of how uncomfortable something is for your opponent. When you pin a piece that causes psychological stress on your opponent. When you continue to apply and maintain these stressors your opponent's position eventually falls apart. But most people are so unaware of what creating stress and tension is on the position that they just play blindly. They will find themselves applying stress on their opponent and then in the next move they'll just alleviate that stress for no reason at all. They're making this mistake because they're unaware of what they're doing.

This is why bringing your queen out early is a mistake in general because it's not effective in the early game at creating stress and applying pressure. It's just going to get kicked around.

They're unaware because these concepts are not told ever on YouTube.

Magnus Carlsen is a terrible teacher. Hikaru is a terrible teacher. Gotham is a terrible teacher.

They're all exceptionally entertaining though.

Edited January 3 by integral

[integral]

I have never heard a single YouTuber you say the word "patience".

That's how bankrupt you know everything is.

The problem is they know all of these psychological tricks but they don't think about psychology or think that that's the main focus. A chess teacher has to teach psychology and Meta thinking and thinking about thinking non-stop that's the whole game. 

Everything else is easy. Logical calculation is the easy part. It's avoiding all of your own self-imposed bullshit that's hard.

Edited January 3 by integral