2026.04.22

Fun context with this video!

The video I originally planned for this week was another game where I play unrated chess and commentate for learning purposes... I often get into time pressure for talking too much and I lost. Then found out it was rated -_-

I was grinding back my rating over several sessions because I kept dropping. Oof. I still have that one game recorded, but I didn't feel motivated for editing it yet. I wanted a more fun video and indirectly, that's where this video comes into play.

My only YT short is B+N checkmate. I had plans for many more shorts, but never created them and probably won't anytime soon, but my chess shopping video had so many funny moments I wanted to create into YT shorts. I went through the video and wrote down the timestamps for editing into multiple shorts, but when I saw how many shorts I could potentially make, I decided to make one long-form compilation video instead.

My original video was 37 minutes: https://youtu.be/yu3o65JsPRk?si=wJmaqf7dydW2Y_o-

But my compilation is 10 minutes, so here's that video now Check out the longer video if you like this because I still saved many good jokes for that video too: