Is Chess a waste of money?

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[xBlze]

Thank you Gotham, today my brother and me (both beginners of chess) exited our comfort zone and joined a local chess club meeting nice new people, really excited where this road will take me ✌️

[Overlocking]

"I don't fear the man who practiced 10, 000 openings once, I fear the man who practiced a opening 10, 000 times" - GothamChess

[Mati-zcym]

If you buy a chessly course and never study then no

[trygveplaustrum]

Here’s the thing.
Nobody teaches the Reti Gambit.
So nobody has any idea what to do when I play the Reti Gambit.
Free wins, in terms of both effort and cost.

[jefftaylor]

The free courses on Chessable/chessly etc are a great starting point and then you can probably learn the rest on your own from there. That’s basically how I re-learned my repertoire after not playing for 17 years.

[איתןשי]

One more thing I would add - at any level below around 1500 DO NOT get a course that will time out...
Casual players like us will forget the lessons and neet repeat reminding

[Top_burger]

Gotham never fails to include chess in his videos

[supersusstudios]

Funny enough i find great success playing an opening over and over again and analyse it evertime with stockfish. And i gained like 400 points last year

[micaharblaster]

That 10$ chess board that was both chess and checkers your grandma bought you says otherwise. 😂

[RCPlanes]

Props to Levy for having the restraint to not cover the Magnus/Hans game today (what little of it there was)

[debrascott]

My absolute newbie take: bought 2 courses form Levy one for white and one for black. Only needed the first couple chapters to increase my opening confidence because at my lowly rating it's mostly random shit from the other side of the board.

[RocketLancer]

me watching this video knowing full well that i will never spend money on chess:

Interesting 🤔

[MrKULVIS]

Majority of the information is out there for free. What you pay for is an easier way to access it. Try going old fashioned and get a library card. Tons of good books for no cost at the ol library.

[FloatingSunfish]

One of the most genuine videos I've seen in a while!
This is why he's the internet's chess teacher.

[scot_]

This was helpful! I was learning chess in the 90's before there was "online" anything. Then we started having kids. Now that the last kid is almost out of the house, I am getting the itch to revisit the game. Your thoughts were useful in how to approach the study and vast material available. Thank you, sir!

[joshcleminson]

Here's a tip.... I bought the Caro-Kann course... (Great content, helped me get to the next level).... Instead of playing people online, I found the bots that will generally play into the different versions of the Caro and used them as trainers get get a firm grasp on getting to the variation setups, BUT ALSO figure out the ideas of those positions and how to play them in the middle game...

[plumber]

Nothing is "free", if it doesn't cost energy it costs time.

[SynthD]

Levi never fails to convince us that his courses are a waste of money.

[paypig]

you definetely don't need to it's all explained freely on everywhere essentially

[jennysaucerman]

I bought the end game course and, in hindsight, I think I would've been better off buying the Caro Kann course 😅 But I got it on sale and don't regret supporting your business, and I'm still able to apply some of the concepts at my level.

I once read that people buy hobby things because they like the idea of who they'll be more than what would actually be useful to them, and I think that's very applicable here.

I enjoyed this video a lot! Learning how to study is a skill itself. I'd enjoy more videos like these