it depends, sometimes the same person can be good and bad.
some people really dont care and a bad. sometimes people have a heavy style sometimes they are really ingenious.
its hard to tell....
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but its really hard for them to find the right balance, sometimes show so many so deep variation that you have no clue what the actual game is.
some people are way to shallow that you ask yourself why you need a commentator in the first place.
but the majority i dont think is not so good to be honest.
but it all depends really sometimes the same person can have a really cool style and the other time be a bit heavy and hard to listen to.
I think they don't understand their audience well enough. And it seems that they lack of info (not lack of skill).
They should give the audience more information. And not just wait for the audience to ask.
Compare it to baseball commentators. They talk without audience participation. Yet they are successful in doing it, and the audience can know and enjoy more about the game.
A commentator is just like a tourist guide. They should treat the audience like a guide treats tourists.
From the lack of comments, it seems people don't care about them. Well, I think commentators sould attract more audience attention, so the audience will treat them as part of the game.
They should hope that there is something missing without a commentator to a game. So that the audience doesn't think of them as superflous.
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good comment, jadarite.
jadarite i disagree, i find it interesting if they coment on the possible talk about the opening and the possible lines. they just need to do it constantly and in the right pace. sometimes a bit of trivia is nice too but not all the time that it totally interrupts the flow.
only the constant zoom in zoom out talk about something totally different every 3 minutes make it very much less enjoyable. At least for me, i need to be in the right mindset and i cant be in the right mindset if they jump from one topic to another.
The best commentators are the top GMs...
Remeber the Anand Gelfand match, when everyday they had one of Leko, Kramnik, Svidler, Kasparov, Karpov etc
I learnt more from just 1 of those sessions than the entire commentries of King, Trent etc...
The Dirk Jan Ten Dzlkjfslkjf guy really annoys me .. he is like a cow grazing, has 0 clue about chess and just goes off on his boring motherhood statements and annecdotes.
We need the top GMs commenting and throwing everything at us, deep analysis.. If the arguement is the avg player wont understand it..... well....... they shouldnt be watching GM games in the 1st place .. they should be practicing the basics.
Thanks TetsuoShima and Monster_with_no_Name. May I name your Monster? How about Oni no Namae Nai? Demon_with_No_Name. I hope it's right.
What do you think of them? Are they good? Do they do their job? Do you understand them? Pls comment.