What Streaming Chess Doesn’t Teach You
There’s a reason streaming chess blew up. It’s fast. It’s entertaining. It feels alive. You open YouTube or Twitch, someone is blitzing out moves, trash-talking chat, sacrificing pieces like it’s nothing. You watch one game, then another. Suddenly two hours are gone and you feel… inspired. Kind of. But here’s the quiet part nobody says out loud. Watching chess and actually improving at chess are two very different things. And streaming chess, for all its energy, skips a lot of the stuff that actually makes players better. In the second week of binging streams, a lot of players start thinking they just need better openings or sharper tactics. That’s usually when they start looking at chess courses , because something feels missing. And they’re right. Something is missing. Entertainment Chess vs Learning Chess Streaming chess is built to keep you watching. That’s the job. Fast games. Big reactions. Drama. Even the best streamers are performing, whether they mean to or not. What you don’...