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I am not a Grandmaster... just an Expert (current USCF rating: 2011). I have been playing chess since I was a freshman in high school. I try to make my chess videos as interesting as possible. I hope you will learn something.

The number of users creating chess videos on YouTube has increased dramatically since I started making these. If you, too, want to make chess videos, you will need:

1) good material
2) a screen capture program (I use CamStudio)
3) a chess program (I've used WinBoard and PGNmentor, but ChessBase9 works wonders and also helps you organize your thoughts beforehand)
4) a microphone (I got mine at Radio Shack for 30 bucks)
5) patience. It takes me about 30 min to make a 10 min video because I don't have any video editing software.
6) it helps to have a computer engine to analyze your content such as Fritz or Crafty. If you make a tactical mistake in your video, the viewers here will eat you alive, even if you apologize for it in the description. Better to re-shoot the video in that case.

I used to have a really long paragraph here about how I wanted people to behave on my channel, but the ones I'm concerned about always view my videos before reading this, so what's the point?

I IGNORE ALL FRIEND REQUESTS. It's not that I don't like friends, just that I don't see the point of the friend system on YouTube. If I like your stuff I will subscribe to it.

I like people who ask questions better than people who post 'refutations' in an authoritative tone (because they are usually wrong and seldom check their work beforehand, missing obvious things like pinned pieces).

If you see someone making such a comment, please feel free to respond to them, because I ignore these now. You will feel better about yourself and lose weight.

See ya,
GreenCastle