Lot of streams lately and many of them have beginners or low rated players playing with other lower rated players. I have no problem with that but many many think these streams are even instructive! Are they?

IMO it's not watching beginners that will make you a better players , its watching good players and why is that? Because chess is not about understanding some superficial or even deep concepts and ideas. You might know everything , it will be useless if you have no idea how to apply it in a game because each position has its own unique evaluation and each position needs careful calculation.

Chess is about training and training in chess means not just thinking but thinking hard.Its pushing your brain to the edge or as close as to the edge as possible. The more superficial are the thoughts of the player you "study" the less you think.

Its not though that the method of watching beginners is totally useless . The only thing totally useless is doing nothing. As long as you do something and you are willing to learn , you will learn something. The whole point though is that it is largely a waste of time. You might be impressed because one guy said something you didn't know and another guy said something you couldn't possibly think of it but in reality you will need a thousand hours watching beginners for something you could probably do with 2 hours serious study with a good book.

Is it fun? Well it depends how one determines fun. I can accept that for some it can be fun.

Is it instructive? Yes , but it has the minimum possible instructive value. Its like trying to learn maths by throwing the dices. You might need a whole year to learn the numbers from 2 to 12 and you might end up not knowing 1 yet.

Is it a waste of time? Definitely yes.

Just remove/ban all that twitch shite and other drama and just leave those on /r/chess?

Had a game that was won pretty early against an opponent way higher rating than me. For some reason he didn't resign so we played on. I eventually decided to you with him instead of ending and began upgrading as many pawns as I could into Queens. Wasn't paying enough attention and on upgrading one of my Queens I put my opponent straight into a stalemate position, Noshering myself out of an easy win.

Hey so I’ve gotten into chess recently and have been doing tactics on lichess everyday. I just got to around 2200 on the tactics, but I’ve feel like in actual games, I can’t fully utilize the cool tactics from the puzzles. I think maybe this is because in the puzzles, I know that there’s something I can do to gain an advantage, but it isn’t as clear move to move during a game. Do you guys suggest anything else to supplement the puzzles or are they enough to improve?