My dad taught me chess, he told me how everything moved and then just we just played. Once I could make legal moves etc, he taught me that you can resign when you are losing. From that point on, whenever I resigned he would turn the board around and make me beat him from that position. Still think thats a great way to teach.
Yeah, what Ben says is true for lots of stuff. It's easy to look and feel stupid when someone poorly explains something if you're unfamiliar with the subject. But early clarity makes a huge difference in outcome. I remember a summer job I had as a bank teller between high school and college, and the supervisor was trying to explain stuff to me. I couldn't get it for quite a while and was viewed as sort of an idiot. Later on, I finished college and went to a good graduate school and did well, so I'm not an idiot (nor am I a genius of course). It turned out that that professional bank teller was just not very good at explaining stuff.
It's a lack of self-awareness and insight on the behalf of the teacher to fail to understand the learning process. I've had some awful training supervisors who seem to assume they have always possessed their level of understanding and forgotten what it is like to be a beginner.
That has happened to me when I was learning Java syntax (Java is a programing language). Prior to learning Java I learned Pascal in highschool and a little bit of C in University. I didn't understand code where upcasting, downcasting, abstract classes and interfaces were used together. I wouldn't understand examples where you had a list or an array of an interface. I tried to learn those things by reading a book which explained these things in a way that you can only understand what the book says if you already understand the topic (which also describes the entire math and physics portion of Wikipedia). Then I watched RU-vid videos about it (especially channel named coding with John or something like that) and I instantly understood everything. Then I went back to the book and I suddenly understood what the book was talking about.
This is great! It would be nice to have another video for intermediate players. It's hard to improve because it's hard to see what you did wrong against strong club players and beginners make too many mistakes to learn what you did right when beating them. Playing against other intermediate players just seems like luck who wins as neither player can see how the position changes in advance
This video has great information, but I think it would be more valuable as a teaching tool if it was trimmed down to 30-60 minutes. I enjoy Ben and I have the patience to watch him ramble for 2 hours, but this video is 30 minutes of amazing and 90 minutes of noise.
Finally got around to watching this after seeing the 20 minute cut version of this and there's a ton of fantastic methods to teach people here! Couple this with your videos helping different levels of skill and it's really clear that you cover every base passionately.
So many people get so caught up in ratings. Especially with kids, you hear a lot of "I won against an 1100" or "I'm playing an 1800." Even here in the comments.... In tournaments, people ask you your rating right before the game, either honestly as a request for information or as a bit of gamesmanship to remind you that they're higher rated than you. I just tell them to look at the pairing sheet. Perhaps a better measure of progress is the number or speed of the tactics you can calculate, or perhaps the frequency of your blunders. Just record your moves and don't judge yourself. Good reminder for other facets of life, too!
I loved playing in the beginning even loosing didn't bother me when I sucked .. as soon as I got a bit better I couldn't bear the pain of loosing, I'd rather study than play .. watch videos but the thought of loosing is just torture I hate it .. but I think that's where growth happens I need to face my fear and get comfortable with the fact that i'mma loose some matches but I'll try to win like my life depends on it though .. but I now understand the more the matches you play the better you get .. no other way.
Im 1650ish and there is this one particular variation in the Sicilian that I blunder my knight to a queen check all the damn time. I must have done it hundreds of times over the years, the variation happens so rarely that I forget that the "free" pawn isnt free and take it, then immediately remember its a blunder. Its 50/50 whether my opponents actually check and take the knight, though. I dont know why, i just have a mental block about that position that in over 30 years of playing chess, i still make the mistake...
This is what I find the hardest about teaching. I don’t want to be boring so I overdo it on the difficulty and then when the beginners are looking at me with dead fish eyes I feel like the worst teacher ever.
The argument against Steph Curry distributing the ball more is he is distributing it to players who shoot a lower percentage from 16 feet than he does from 30 feet. I agree Curry takes a lot of bad shots and he should distribute more but he should take BETTER shots, distribute when he doesnt have a good shot, still be scoring 30 but also have 20 assists.
Morphy would learn fast if you plucked him up a few years before his peak and plopped him into today. He would probably get crushed at the start, though. As Ben was trying to explain, you usually learn more from losing than winning.
At 1:59:00 you would think Ben is exagarating but I have seen 500s play and this is totally possible to happen in their games. Go watch Nemo vs Botez sub battles first game where 2 500s play each other.
I use the Ruy Lopez and elements of it to teach chess, It covers all the major principles. Also, the book Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess . Best beginner book ! then Watch GM Boris Alterman's icc video lesson with them ''learn how to win'' . Positional sacrifices. He shows the difference between positional and tactical sacrifices. Do some puzzles with them , go over basics... castling, en passant. How pawns work, checks , mates. and pins forks, skewers and so on. Its funny when my step dad was teaching me at first , he keep saying ''you cant move into check '' hahaha Many ways to speed up the learning curve. Great lesson Im1600 but still feel like a beginner lol. In Zen its good to keep your beginners mind lol. get it.
12:05 "Do you play golf or tennis?" xD It's not an insult actually. Chess is just not for everyone. It's probably not the best choice to pursue something if you turn out to be an anti-talent at it.
Its incredible to me that Benjamin was constantly talking shit about Hikaru bring new people into the community and being popular because of it. Yet he’s trying his best to become popular on these platforms as well. Hating on the successes of others and mad that they thought of things before he could comprehend them. A sad old man.
he's bringing mega streamers into the community to score sweet ad revenue Hikaru doesn't give a fuck about the average person trying to get into chess, its all about money for him, but he doesn't care chat he literally doesn't care, seriously chat he doesn't care
@@jabzsupanut3443 i never said ben was any better but hikaru is just as bad if not worse. chess players especially grandmasters are all egomaniacs. with the exception of a few of course like naroditsky and rosen to name a few
