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Anybody have a suggestion for a site similar to this (engine analysis and all) but also with human commentary to explain things to those of us whose chess skill

by jMyles 8y ago

Anybody have a suggestion for a site similar to this (engine analysis and all) but also with human commentary to explain things to those of us whose chess skill earlier stage?

pps43 8y ago
Chess24 has real-time human commentary as well as shorter post-game summary.
- antaviana 8y ago
  It is very fun but I think that to fully follow Chess24 commentary real-time you need to be FIDE 1900+
  - pps43 8y ago
    I don't have 1900+ rating and can follow most of it, although occasionally I need to pause the video to understand why some "obvious" things are indeed obvious. It's true that without some basic knowledge of chess it would be hard to follow, but that can be said about many sports.
jakubp 8y ago
https://lichess.org/ https://lichess.org/ has a great live commentary of every game.
pk2200 8y ago
Svidler and Grischuk at chess24.com are fantastic, but they're both world class players and beginners will find their commentary and analysis difficult to follow. I'd recommend chess.com - Danny Rensch and Robert Hess are a bit more accessible.
- sago 8y ago
  I second chess.com. And the guests they have, Hou Yifan and MVL today, absolutely elite players. Yet they manage to keep them understandable.
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d0m 8y ago
I like https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR. He goes over many interesting variations with clear explanations.
- sb10128 8y ago
  Second agadmator, lots of personality and humor along with the detailed analysis.
gdrulia 8y ago
ChessNetwork is my choice. Streams on twitch with analysis video on youtube. https://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork/events https://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork/events https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork
ubernostrum 8y ago
/r/chess on reddit has been good at finding and linking useful commentary. For example, here's a good move-by-move analysis of game 6, including (around the 33-minute mark) an explanation of the "missed" win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzaG0Ia_fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzaG0Ia_fs And tl;dr for those not following the match: a chess engine analyzing the game found a line Caruana could have used to force a win in game 6 (the actual result was a draw), but it required making such an unnatural and normally bad move (trapping his own knight in a corner) for a relatively distant payoff that commentators pretty much all agree no human would ever have spotted or played it in a live game. Here's Garry Kasparov, for example: https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1063576827850096640 https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1063576827850096640 But had Caruana played the incredible 69.Bd5 Ne2 70.Bf3 Ng1!! they would request metal detectors immediately! No human can willingly trap his own knight like that.

by jMyles 8y ago

Anybody have a suggestion for a site similar to this (engine analysis and all) but also with human commentary to explain things to those of us whose chess skill earlier stage?

pps43 8y ago

Chess24 has real-time human commentary as well as shorter post-game summary.

antaviana 8y ago
It is very fun but I think that to fully follow Chess24 commentary real-time you need to be FIDE 1900+
- pps43 8y ago
  I don't have 1900+ rating and can follow most of it, although occasionally I need to pause the video to understand why some "obvious" things are indeed obvious. It's true that without some basic knowledge of chess it would be hard to follow, but that can be said about many sports.

jakubp 8y ago

https://lichess.org/ https://lichess.org/ has a great live commentary of every game.

pk2200 8y ago

Svidler and Grischuk at chess24.com are fantastic, but they're both world class players and beginners will find their commentary and analysis difficult to follow. I'd recommend chess.com - Danny Rensch and Robert Hess are a bit more accessible.

sago 8y ago
I second chess.com. And the guests they have, Hou Yifan and MVL today, absolutely elite players. Yet they manage to keep them understandable.
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d0m 8y ago

I like https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR. He goes over many interesting variations with clear explanations.

sb10128 8y ago
Second agadmator, lots of personality and humor along with the detailed analysis.

gdrulia 8y ago

ChessNetwork is my choice. Streams on twitch with analysis video on youtube. https://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork/events https://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork/events https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork

ubernostrum 8y ago

/r/chess on reddit has been good at finding and linking useful commentary. For example, here's a good move-by-move analysis of game 6, including (around the 33-minute mark) an explanation of the "missed" win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzaG0Ia_fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzaG0Ia_fs And tl;dr for those not following the match: a chess engine analyzing the game found a line Caruana could have used to force a win in game 6 (the actual result was a draw), but it required making such an unnatural and normally bad move (trapping his own knight in a corner) for a relatively distant payoff that commentators pretty much all agree no human would ever have spotted or played it in a live game. Here's Garry Kasparov, for example: https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1063576827850096640 https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1063576827850096640 But had Caruana played the incredible 69.Bd5 Ne2 70.Bf3 Ng1!! they would request metal detectors immediately! No human can willingly trap his own knight like that.