Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnowI have a certain disability, were to be honest, a visual vedio is more helpful in the learning process then a long analytical book. Sure, the book has more info, but in a book, I only retain about 10% of the info (usually through not remembering, moving the peices wrong on the board while looking at annotation, etc), while in the vedio, I retain 90%. So I get more learning off the vedios, problem is, I cannot afford the vedios and only have about 4 of them.
Just curious why do people buy chess videos versus books.
It seems to me you can have a lot more information, for less money, in a book.
Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnowI think the BEST type of instruction available at the moment is buying chess books for chessbase! I have DVoretsky's 'End game manual' for chessbase. It is exactly the same as the book, but you can read it on your computer using chessbase database (if you don't have this program it comes with it;s own player on the cd). I've found this is a GREAT way to study. When i flick through a book, i find it cumbersum to actually get the board out (i often make mistakes, read the notation wrong, etc...) but this way you can read vaste quantities of the book in one sitting as all the moves are programed into the database. I read three chapters in a sitting! Also, if you want to analyse some of the positions, you can save your analysis alongside the books analysis, thus when you look back over something at a later stage, your own notes appear as well, thus allowing you to expand on the information available in the book! I'll never buy another paperback.
Just curious why do people buy chess videos versus books.
It seems to me you can have a lot more information, for less money, in a book.
Originally posted by DeadBeSwallowedI shed a tear for you.
I have a certain disability, were to be honest, a visual vedio is more helpful in the learning process then a long analytical book. Sure, the book has more info, but in a book, I only retain about 10% of the info (usually through not remembering, moving the peices wrong on the board while looking at annotation, etc), while in the vedio, I retain 90%. ...[text shortened]... e learning off the vedios, problem is, I cannot afford the vedios and only have about 4 of them.
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Originally posted by XanthosNZThe sarcasm is not needed, sarcastic know-it-all, I know you don't care, and I know the world doesn't either, that's why it's capitalistic, I'm just pointing out that vedios help some ppl more then books, even though books have more information, now quit being an arse...
I shed a tear for you.
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I get videos just as a change of pace. The kasparov videos on queen's gambit and najdorf also have databases on respective openings. I don't think the videos are going to change your chess life or anything. In many ways i don't think dvd's have exploited the medium to its full extent. Most of these are just talking heads and chessboards at the side. I'd love to see, for example, a video of the fischer-spassky match, move by move, with background info, pictures, movies, interviews, etc. the same thing kasparov did with deep blue, only with two humans involved.
Originally posted by buddy2I think Kopec did that with some of his games, talked about how he felt when he made, say that good move or that bad move, rather then simply looking at a chess board move. He also talked about ideas, and how some of them relate to say game A or game B or C. Josh Waitzkin also has a good vedio academy on CM, Larry Christiansen also has some good vedios, and so did the deceased Edgar Mednis, but here is the catch, at one time in these men's lives, they studied media/tv or journalism I beleive. A lot of chess players are stereotypicly on the anti-social side, so for them to present chess as a TV media is like a whole strange world to them and they don't know what to do, I've found that out with some vedios...
I get videos just as a change of pace. The kasparov videos on queen's gambit and najdorf also have databases on respective openings. I don't think the videos are going to change your chess life or anything. In many ways i don't think dvd's have exploited the medium to its full extent. Most of these are just talking heads and chessboards at the side. ...[text shortened]... es, interviews, etc. the same thing kasparov did with deep blue, only with two humans involved.
Originally posted by DeadBeSwallowedVideo. It's even in the title of the thread.
I think Kopec did that with some of his games, talked about how he felt when he made, say that good move or that bad move, rather then simply looking at a chess board move. He also talked about ideas, and how some of them relate to ...[text shortened]... y don't know what to do, I've found that out with some vedios...
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I have about a dozen Roman's Lab videos that were bought for me as a birthday present by my wife. I have to say that they are every bit as bad as the good people on this site warned me they would be. I haven't tried the CB format ebooks yet, but the idea of being somewhat interactive seems like a huge bonus.
Originally posted by marinakatombI have ChessBase 9.0 Do you know what books are availiable? I am just about to check the site.
I think the BEST type of instruction available at the moment is buying chess books for chessbase! I have DVoretsky's 'End game manual' for chessbase. It is exactly the same as the book, but you can read it on your computer using chessbase database (if you don't have this program it comes with it;s own player on the cd). I've found this is a GREAT w ...[text shortened]... wing you to expand on the information available in the book! I'll never buy another paperback.
I just looked at the new Najdorf video by Kasparov and wasn't impressed. First of all it doesn't deal with all the lines of the Najdorf, mostly poisoned pawn and Bg5 variations. Also, Kasparov isn't really fluent in English, to the extent you need as a commentator. He speaks in phrases not sentences, as if he is trying to think of the next thing to say. His dvds are more in the historical, rather than the self-improvement category. I'd like to see him narrate some of his own games in a dvd collection. I haven't tried Kopec yet. What does he have out? The best and most inspirational i've see is Andrew Martin, his Scandinavian dvd. It doesn't cover all the lines, but it doesn give you confidence to play the darn thing.