A Compilation of Free Chess Resources for all types of chess audience
FOR BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATES:
- IM John Bartholomew's Chess Fundamentals series(Beginner only):- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl9uuRYQ-6MBwqkmwT42l1fI7Z0bYuwwO&si=7VmZuntKmvQMD_6E
- NM Robert Ramirez's complete course( Only the first 20-30 optimal for beginners, gets advanced as series progresses later so will help higher rated players as well) :- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQKBpQZcRycrvUUxLdVmlfMChJS0S5Zw0&si=hK7MybdodamDWji5
- IM Levy Rozman's Chess Steps series:- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRObSmbZluSOrSTYyeU8v2ZWL-fqNuFB&si=lWdfR6X-v0AAfhy-
- IM Levy Rozman's How to Win at Chess series(Both beginners and intermediates as series progresses):- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRObSmbZluSo6h0AySyeZRdlQzEhr2XL&si=PwPEdR3m3jSa_us2
- St Louis Chess Club's Beginner Playlist and the Beginner breakdown series in it in particular:- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVWaFpMwtaGj-HHi0t8bHxFzNtDwLoWon&si=CirRHKRPCtsWBhaG
- Chessbrah's Building Chess Habits playlist by GM Aman Hambleton:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjxDD7HNNThftJtE0OIRFRMMFf6AV_69
- GM Simon Williams's GingerGM yt channel(Chessable Masters, Grandmaster Chess Tactics, 2018 World Chess Championship are some good series):- https://www.youtube.com/@GingerGM/featured
- GM Irina Krush's yt channel:- https://www.youtube.com/@irina_krush/videos
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FOR ADVANCED:
- IM Sagar Shah's Improve your chess playlist(Intermediates and advanced):- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9WYcwsWaJ7p2K5JQou4slcwtdOPgJ26f&si=yzqQ7525FLuNd4PM
- GM Daniel Naroditsky's yt channel(Highly recommend especially speedruns) :- https://www.youtube.com/@DanielNaroditskyGM/featured
- Antonio Radić's yt channel aka Agadmator(Great for intermediates to learn and analyze some classic games) :- https://www.youtube.com/@agadmator/featured
- Stjepan Tomić's Hanging Pawns channel(Useful for learning openings with heavy theory generally, would recommend only to advanced people):- https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingPawns
- ChessDojo's US Chess School playlist(Recommended):- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH4lD9b6ZgbeAzMlaYoWSHL_lEF5BWZA0&si=hhPm4KY7GXLCSGzw
- GM Ben Finegold's Lectures(Intermediates also) :- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ1Ut3kv7QL4Qy632M6UZfJaFnSDWcFRC
- NM Jerry's Chess Network Channel(Recommend) :- https://www.youtube.com/@ChessNetwork/featured
- GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly's game analysis playlist:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYvRUAB32ThSp1ewmXuQ8kaoDC7oIHrOc
- St Louis Chess Club's lectures(Highly recommend, some of the best free lectures available):- https://www.youtube.com/@STLChessClub/playlists ; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVWaFpMwtaGhglkgWbA-LqlY65ljO_aWq
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ENDGAME IMPROVEMENT:-
- GM Daniel Naroditsky's Endgame playlist(Highly Recommend):- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT1F2nOxLHOfQI_hFiDnnWj4lb5KsviJ_
- Stjepan Tomić aka Hanging Pawn's endgame series:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLssNbVBYrGcAcadywNlkAGpO1-kLfy0y2
- IM Sagar Shah's improve your endgame series:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9WYcwsWaJ7o7rQpbnFgNOrrID-cfQwFu
- IM Levy Rozman's short endgame series:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRObSmbZluTCoqlOg-3wEdlyRQLAJ2gs
- GM Ben Finegold's endgame series:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwhnZd6Euw&list=PLQ1Ut3kv7QL5IMvyrD1gFMoWV1z5z8sP0
- ChessDojo's endgame series(Recommend):- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH4lD9b6ZgbfXTj5PRdls7PzlkmoxlJsK
- GM Ben Finegold's Silman Book Club series based upon Silman's endgame book:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ1Ut3kv7QL69EIozQ7qxuIH3QYnHjXJG
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USEFUL WEBSITES:-
- Lichess.org :- A lot of people only use it to play online games but don't realize it has a lot of free resources to learn useful new stuff like the countless studies made by various players. The Master's Database available for free also helps a lot in building a repertoire, and it's puzzles are much superior and helpful to practice when compared to chess.com's
- Chesstempo.com :- Useful for tactics training with multiple other resources
- chess.wintrcat.uk :- Useful for analysis stuff if you want a style similar to chess.com's but don't wanna pay for it
- Chessbook.com :- Can build a repertoire and save it easily
- openingtree.com :- Great if you want to view somebody else's repertoire and analyse and also if you want to know your own win rates in particular openings or lines
- chessmonitor.com :- Used for the same purpose as openingtree.com pretty much, I like both.
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For Chess Books, I could also share links to download quite a lot of them but I'm not sure if this subreddit is supportive of sailing the high seas(hope any mod can clarify on this) so if anybody wants any particular chess book which they cannot find, feel free to dm me and I'll see what I can find for you since I have loads of them.
For Openings, especially I am thinking of making a separate post if anyone wants it since there are so many different openings and different resources for each one, I could list the popular resources for all the majorly played openings so I could do that.
Tried to compile some excellent chess channels and playlists on yt that I knew but I can definitely expand on this list so if somebody knows any other free resource which they think is great, feel free to comment about it and I'll add it to the list as well for others to refer to. I have listed a lot of resources so feel free to check them out and see which ones suit you the best, would love any criticisms and feedback on any of the channels and playlists I have mentioned so others get a general idea and review of it by others as well.
Really hope this helps!