2022.08.23 Stream Update

My upcoming YouTube videos have the goal of addressing "Learning How To Learn" but I pondered how to best articulate what I meant by this. I had a creative idea to find one chess game to analyze and to give the "learning process" through watching how I'd approach that game analysis around a certain rating level. Next, I would analyze the same game - yet from the perspective as a different level player.

The question was, which game should I analyze? I wanted it to be a game of mine because I know what the player was thinking...because that was me. I also wanted to find a draw or a loss, so that there would be certainly errors to correct and learn from. I originally filtered my game archive to search for this, but the problem I encountered was that it was difficult to "analyze" a game when I'm trying to view it from the orientation of a lower rated player, yet a good portion of the game were "book moves" and advanced ideas. It isn't realistic to be trying to teach a 1000 rated player target audience if the game shown has 2000 rated player concepts and ideas. It isn't that the ideas couldn't be explained because they could, but it isn't something a 1000 rated player is likely to come across naturally. This allowed me to refine my idea:

I decided to break this in-depth analysis into 3 YT videos. I would approach the same game in all 3 videos, yet I would target a Beginning Player, an Intermediate Player and an Advanced Player respectively. 

I found the need to break up levels this way not because of different ratings being confused, but because of what ideas I believed were likely to be likely to be corrected as the player learns and thinks about the positions differently. I won't put "ratings" on the videos, but we could estimate a target audience of 1000 for the Beginning video, 1500 for the Intermediate one and 2000 for the Advanced one. Of course, I encourage all rating levels to watch all 3 videos and compare and contrast how each one is approached. 

This is my "update" for now. I wanted a game that wasn't overly complicated (and advanced), but I also wanted a game with errors which might prove to be instructional. Since the video estimates were 1000, 1500 and 2000, I figured it was best to pick a game with roughly 1500-rated players. 

I've already decided on a game of mine to show (because again, I know how I think and what mindset I had back then). The game I found was played years ago when I was in that rating range, so I hope it makes a helpful set of videos

As usual, I don't have a "rigid schedule" for when I'll post, but I'll continue with the pattern we've been following of trying to post at least once a week; usually on Wednesday afternoon (EST). With that being said, I hope to have the first video uploaded Wednesday, August 24th...but we'll see if I can make it by then as I have OTB chess club Tuesday (Aug. 23rd). 

Also just for clarification, this video idea was largely inspired by @jake_allstar1 asking in my chess.com forum thread: