New YouTube Channel - Chess History

I am a Woman International Master from China and a current history student of University College London. I have done thorough research on chess history, culture, and development for almost a year, and I am called by my fellows “chess historian.”

Recently I have established my YouTube Channel with my colleague and I need your support

Here is my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/tLbfGl-vTcU

I am making videos about chess history, and here is my first video talking about one of the earliest chess sets found in Europe:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC5AhQ99Xl2ptfpZrRM2r92w

Give the video a thumb up, and you are welcome to subscribe on my YouTube Channel

Because I didn't apply for the WIM mark and because I attend university in the UK and sometimes represent our university to play, I make the flag UK

Yes I will in the future

Good work girl.

A couple of points.

Follow my posts to see the style of my presentation.

1. It's not enough to regurgitate what you learn. You must add your own insights.

2. Chess has an Eastern lineage too. Chinese Chess. Study that lineage too. Don't be all Westernized.

3. It is not enough to be a "chess historian". You have to be a world historian. You have to understand the history of the world. They key word is understanding.

An example of 1 and 3.

Why? Why is the Soviet Union so good at chess.?

The answer lies deep in history.

Adam Smith said it best. Who else could?

The man of system, . . . is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it.

He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chose to impress upon it.

It was the dawn of the age of machines and engineering. And the Soviet believe they can plan and engineer society like they do machines.

Chess is the perfect metaphor for their command economy.

In the same way, why they are so great in ballet. You won't find the answer in ballet history books.

You have to intuit.

Like a choreographer and musician who set the pace and manner of a ballet, it too is the perfect metaphor for their attempt at choreographing the whole society.

The whole society will dance to their tune.