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I'm not sure that translates very linearly. Most of the chess YouTube "stars" are not even GMs. Most of the viewers are hardly good players, so what you can lea
by jaxr 3y ago
I'm not sure that translates very linearly. Most of the chess YouTube "stars" are not even GMs. Most of the viewers are hardly good players, so what you can learn from an IM is astronomical. Charisma and good at teaching are much better skills than a 1000 ELO difference imo. To your point, beating Magnus might drag a lot of people to his stream.
- drexlspivey 3y agoThat’s right, the most popular content creator on Youtube is an IM and the most popular game analysis channel is by an amateur
- TylerE 3y agoThat’s nothing new. Many of the books supposedly by GMs are ghostwritten by non-titled players.
- paulddraper 3y ago> Most of the chess YouTube "stars" are not even GMs. But they have tutorials, put tons of effort into entertaining content, etc. Hikaru doesn't. People watch Hiraku because they want to watch a top 5 player.
- lupire 3y agoThey watch Hikaru because he is fun while he plays and wins. Offline, he is #4 is slow chess and #1 in Blitz. He's not facing strong challenges on Titled Tuesday, and (like all top players) he is so good that there simply aren't enough players and data to make the empirical Elo scale work for assessing his win probabilities.