EPTThe Ng5 Weekly
Which time of the week? I can't possibly tell. I planned Thursday evening, but I've just got bent over by my classes, so it is yet to be decided and announced.
From when? Sometimes early-mid September. Meaning at least two weeks from now, but more likely three (at most four).
But let me first tell you my plans. The Weekly will mostly consist of one evening (US time, sorry I have roommates now and I cannot start late late late night anymore) of chess. My guess would be between 3 and 5 hours of content each time. In return I will make everything available through VODs and if you watch them you can keep posting me questions that I can answer during a later stream.
The Content
The content would pretty much be similar to what I wanted to do in my marathon when I wasn't playing.
Game analysis, plan making analysis, going over openings, analyzing games - both games of yours that you've sent me or random games I've seen or played.
What extra I have in mind to that is - I want to have a session of Chess for Noobies done at least bi-weekly, where I would like to give a shot at making chess more popular for beginners or those new to the game. I'm not sure how and when, maybe it wouldn't be more than answering questions of new players, or going through their games and trying to give advice from a different perspective, but I would like to have that implemented.
On another not I probably will not play on my weekly stream. I will keep it to teaching. I am quite unsure about when and whether I will actively (or not so actively) play chess in the future. I might give side-streams where I stream my play, but I might just get a secret ICC account for that and not show my play (if it's existent) for a good while.
For this I would like to invite everyone to list their ideas. I want to keep this thread open for the Weekly and have another for the main stream itself. You can post your ideas here or in a PM. The ideas can vary from request of material covered - from as general as endgames, to as particular as some 14 move deep sideline of a rarer opening. Or it can be about a game of yours (I would prefer those sent to me in a PM and in time I might set up a separate email address just for that). Or mostly anything chess related, really.
I probably will not have anything huge for the first event, I will do what I plan to do later.
I also don't know how long I will be able to do this, but I plan to go at least till Christmas with it - and then will see.
I know this is not too flashy of a main post, and it could become much better with some pictures, but right now I cannot do more - and at the same time I do not want to wait longer with the announcement. Please keep up the enthusiasm about chess and come enjoy my stream when it happens!
I'm awaiting your posts.
Cheers,
-me
