Chess.com promotional video contest

My entry to the chess.com promotional video contest. Most 'likes' wins! So please 'like'!
An epic cold war spy thriller.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• chess
• www.chess.com
• promotion
• contest
• cold
• war
• spy
• games
• 1980
• 80s

[channelmiso23]

AMAZING TV EFFECTS! cool video! what software did u use to make it, esp. the begininning!?

[garydumbill]

@channelmiso23 Cheers dude. It was made using Adobe After effects. Is it something you have heard of?

[EPISTEMESCIENTIA]

This is so awesome but__NOT KID FRIENDLY!!!! It cannot be a promo video because that is much of the audience of chess.com.

[garydumbill]

@EPISTEMESCIENTIA Thanks. That was a concern of mine, but the day i posted there was a picture of a handgun on chess.com's front page with the headline ''pull the trigger'' made me think it'd be fine.

[laputadetumadre11]

lol how can the others hope to compete with something like this. The only thing offputting about it is the fact that black moved first...that was abolished over 100 years ago.

[garydumbill]

@laputadetumadre11 Whoops.... camera's, lights, abandoned warehouses, props, etc..... sometimes you can forget the simple things! I'm currently way thousands of likes behind the leader, voted by users, thats how people can compete!

[TheChadsVlog]

White moves first!

[TheCabal]

Nice video! Oh man I really enjoyed the effects. Especially thanks to the beginning part with the tv... which made the real cold war feeling possible.

[channelmiso23]

@garydumbill well. yeah, i heard of it. you must be really good with computer!

[kingberzerk]

Thumbs up by Schachfreunde Berlin. Our coverage on sfr-berlin.de/2011/12/videocli­ps-und-schach-heise-kandidaten­/

[Swatsniper951]

@EPISTEMESCIENTIA Most kids are playing BlackOps and MW3 on their PS3 and X-box. I think the video is fine, it not like he splattered the commies brains everywhere. Which would have been an OK ending too. lol

[vladan1021]

@EPISTEMESCIENTIA chess is not just kid's game...

[Ayatsuri1]

Very creative, Great setting and Great everything. Composed almost perfectly and I love everything except maybe the pictures of their wives and the choice of vodka. Only concern is the alcohol-advertising, imo and probably the gen-pop of Sweden the guns are not a problem even if kids watch it.

Summary: well-composed, very creative, very promotional. Huge thumbs up. Like

[DiscoveredCheck]

@garydumbill I thought the same thing when I first saw it. I remembered the original video but not "who" it was by. Though, I thought to myself that you did some very awesome remixing to come up with this. Makes it easier if you have the original to work from :D

Anyway. Very cool video and the original was very cool too. Good to know you are the original creator of both.