Agadmator

Antonio Radić (born 16 June 1987), better known as agadmator, is a Croatian YouTuber and chess player. As of September 19th 2021, his channel is the second most popular chess channel on YouTube, surpassing 1,000,000 subscribers on 7 February 2021. The videos on Radić's channel have over 500 million views in total.[2][3][4][5] On his channel, Radić reviews both recent and historical chess games, often focusing on recent games during big tournaments such as Grand Chess Tour events and focusing on historical games at other times.

Agadmator
Antonio's profile picture at Chess.com
Personal information
BornAntonio Radić
(1987-06-16) 16 June 1987
Križevci, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
OccupationYouTuber
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016–present
Subscribers1.19 million[1]
Total views530 million[1]
Updated: 2 December 2021
Antonio Radić
CountryCroatia
Peak rating2010 (September 2010)

Colonel David A. Hater, a writer for US Chess, has called him "one of YouTube’s leading chess streamers".[6]

Background

Radić, a resident of Križevci, Croatia,[7] was introduced to chess at the age of four by his grandfather Anto Krnjić, a FIDE Master; however, he later stopped playing and did not return to chess until he was 17 years old.[4] Radić's peak FIDE rating of 2010 was achieved in July 2010 (current rating 1949).[8] Although he does not participate in many international chess tournaments, he is active on various online chess platforms, including Lichess and Chess.com.[4][9]

YouTube channel

Radić originally began his YouTube channel in 2007 while he was working with his father, who had a job as a wedding videographer. He posted wedding videos to promote their business. He began posting chess videos in 2016. His YouTube channel became popular enough for his YouTube income to exceed his regular income in 2017 with around 20,000 subscribers.[3] Radić quit his regular job as an assistant to his father's wedding photography business to focus on the channel full time.[4][10] Almost all of Radić's videos follow the same format: a review of one chess game.[2] He typically posts new videos on a daily basis and consistently reviews games from big tournaments within 24 hours.[4] Many of his reviews of historical games are organized into series, such as the games from the World Chess Championship 1921 match.[11] His most popular video is titled "The Greatest Queen Sacrifice in Chess History" and has 6.3 million views as of September 2021. In the video, he analyzes a game between Rashid Nezhmetdinov and Oleg Chernikov from 1962.[12]

Radić has also started a podcast called The agadmator Podcast,[13] which is hosted on his YouTube channel.[14] He also has another channel, on which he posts videos of him playing video games.[15] On 7 February 2021, he became the first chess content creator to cross the 1 million-subscriber mark.[5]

References
  1. "About agadmator". YouTube.
  2. "Agadmator's Chess Channel". YouTube. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  3. Ninan, Susan (4 August 2020). "Agadmator: From smalltown Croatia, an unlikely chess phenomenon". ESPN. ESPN. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  4. Shah, Sagar (31 October 2018). "Agadmator - the man who has 290,000+ followers on YouTube". ChessBase India. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  5. Shah, Sagar (8 February 2021). "First Chess Channel to Hit 1 million Subs". ChessBase India YouTube channel. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  6. Hater, Colonel David A. (19 March 2019). "Tani Wins at NYS Scholastic Championships". United States Chess Federation. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  7. Belani, Hrvoje (21 February 2018). "Antonio Radić: 'Svojim YouTube kanalom mogu svakoga zainteresirati za šah'" (in Croatian). Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  8. "Radic, Antonio". FIDE. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  9. "Agadmator". Lichess. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  10. Johnson, Ben (14 January 2020). "The Perpetual Chess Podcast Ep.160". The Perpetual Chess Podcast. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  11. "Capablanca vs. Lasker - World Championship Match 1921". YouTube. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  12. "The Greatest Queen Sacrifice in Chess History - Nezhmetdinov vs Chernikov (1962)". YouTube. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  13. "The agadmator Podcast". Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  14. "YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  15. "Agadmator's Other Channel - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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