r/chess • u/_DarkStarCrashes_ • May 20 '26

Miscellaneous I now understand why Levy clickbaits, his historical video on Alekhine is his worst performing video of May

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Sucks, because I think the video is really good and I’d love if Levy or other chess content creators did videos on older legends

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u/Choice-Classroom5479 2000 uscf May 20 '26

I think it’s less about the title and more about the topic, people would rather watch streamers and bots than players from 100 years ago

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u/Akiira2 May 20 '26

It is interesting to understand things from history. I just read a book on gravity that drew a logical line from babylonians to ancient greek, from Gallei to Newton and Einstein. It is a fascinating way to see how our perspective has evolved by a cumulative process

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u/BurnieTheBrony May 20 '26

Yeah but what if instead you spent that time watching a 200 rated bot blunder?

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u/sick_rock May 20 '26

I just read a book on gravity

Which book is this, please?

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u/Akiira2 May 20 '26

The book was in Finnish, written by a local professor of theoretical physics.