I'm starting a YouTube channel

didn't click the link. but i can only imagine what a huge waste of time it could be for me. so instead im just going to leave an inflammatory comment. your welcome.

Chess.com would be nothing without inflammatory comments!

and likewise, inflammatory comments would be nothing without dufus' who think they can argue with ruffians.

True :)

it's a cyclical thing. it's like the circle of life. lions would die without their prey. just as trolls would diminsh without the dodo birds of life.

I give a white perspective of it though...so its not very helpful for a black player lol

I'm just curious, how do you meet the reti? Some dutch setup?

Yeah, pretty much.

I would rather not find out what would happen if I played against myself

I'm gonna be gone for a few days, but when I come back, I will post 5 games that are annotated by myself on youtube

Thanks again for the checking on the channel guys.

Here's the 9th video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVTh-FD-QcQ&list=UUeHuOWubLD45zX8VsmVIuug

It's something a bit different from the blitz and openings videos I have posted.

boring.

Nice game with a nice finish, but I felt like you were giving too many explanations and doing too much with the board.  For example when white forms a battery and threatens a7, you don't need to click the queen and draw an arrow and click a7.  I think saying "threatening a7" is enough, or don't even mention it until black's next move and you might say "defending a7."

Just for the sake of more feedback... I'd pick a target rating for your audience.  For example beginner, or 1300-1500, or 1800-2000.  And then modify your analysis accordingly.  When you try to do it all, you bore the 1800-2000 group with simple variations and pointing out threats and at the same time frustrate the lower rated audience with speedily going through the more difficult variations... and even non-beginners.  There was at least one time you went click-click-click-click so fast I lost track of what was going on.

And to trim it down further I'd pick maybe 3 key moments you think are especially instructive, and spend the most time on those.  This doesn't mean you ignore everything else, but it does means some variations or ideas that are interesting to you may get left out and that a series of game moves can be shown with no explanation.  I feel like you tried to talk about nearly everything you'd looked at and at the same time were giving explanations a la move by move books.

Also (wow, this is getting long) I think it's a good idea to go slower.  Like knowing your speech or lines so well tends to make you say it too quickly for listeners, knowing the position I think speeds you up.  Pause a little bit between each move (and speak slower too).

I like lots of explanations though. It can be good to know how even simple ideas each contribute to the whole scheme. As shell knight said though you can't do every single position justice -- you should pick some of the lines/ positions more important/relevant to the game and maybe focus on those and not go as deeply into diversions. Like around the 8-10 minute mark where you were analyzing ...Nxc2 for a long time -- it sort of divides the focus -- there you probably should have stopped early and just let the viewer analyze it more deeply himself if desired. Either that or play through the line really briefly -- that's ok because it's just a sideline.  That way you could keep focusing on the game and not just suddenly talk about something else. 

In general I thought it was pretty good; you have a unique style.

Yeah....it's a work in progress. Your feedback essentially roots out a lot of the stuff I tend to do when I talk to myself.

As you mentioned, i tend to jump around too fast with all the variations that I had looked at and was trying to get outside my mouth!

Next time, ill try not to rush and Ill try to maintain consistency with the audience that tends to follow the videos the best.

And ill also try to not make subvariations too long! Lol

Thank you very much for the criticism, I didn't realize who my target audience was before your post.

I've never tried to make a video myself.  I wonder if after recording it you could edit it?  Or if that would even help at all?  lol.

Anyway, it turned into a long post.  I don't want to be too negative.  I'll keep an eye out for more videos ;)

I'm not sure how to edit my videos unfortunately. When it comes to this tech stuff, I am lost.

I tried using Windows Movie Maker to edit one of the video I have posted, but it changed the format of the file and I was unable to change it back to the previous file or even upload the video on YouTube. 

If anyone has advice on this stuff, it would nice to hear it.

"Your feedback essentially roots out a lot of the stuff I tend to do when I talk to myself."

Right -- there are phrases you will understand immediately because of course, you understand yourself. But you have to make sure that you can communicate in a way that not just you understand, but for other people who are not familiar with you -- the former doesn't guarantee the latter. Probably easier said than done. You didn't do bad though.

So...today I did not have time to analyze one of the games I picked out to analyze. 

I ended up posting a video about a game I played a month ago (that I posted as a thread too) in the link below.

If you have seen the game already in that thread...then it's a bit of a dud for you.

If you have not seen the game, then it should be a little interesting hopefully. 

I tried to work on explaining my ideas better and stay consistent towards the targeted audience, so I hope it's a better overall video than the previous one.

The long subvariation, that I included in the middle somewhere, is something I couldn't resist sharing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu7nfUuNVI4&feature=youtu.be

the two of you should get a room.

Maybe you should clog that noise hole of yours.