Chess Video Lesson Contest

Introduction

In our Training Videos from the Masters series of videos you have watched some excellent lessons from IM Luis Coelho and NM Dennis Monokroussos. However, you don't have to be an NM or IM to make a great instructional video. From armis' engaging endgame lessons to BKildahl's colorful live commentaries, we've seen members contribute videos of the highest quality.

To encourage even more top-notch instructional videos from our members, we're holding the ChessVideos.TV Chess Video Lesson contest. To enter, record a 15-40 minute lesson on an opening line, key endgame, or famous game. The videos will be hosted in a special contest forum where members can discuss them. ChessVideos.TV Founder Josh Specht, as well as ChessVideos.TV members, will choose the winners.

Judging

Videos will be judged on instructional value, clarity of concepts, presentation, and accuracy. Each video will be ranked by Josh and by the forum's vote. The 3 videos with the highest average ranking will win great prizes! You can target your video at advanced players, beginners or anybody in between; they will all be considered equally.

Sample Topics

This is by no means a complete list, but here are some sample topics:

Openings:

Playing against the King's Gambit

A line in the Sicilian

Planning in the Opening

Middlegames:

Playing with/against the isolated queen pawn

Minority attack

Endgame:

Knight endgames

Basics of King and Pawn endings

Defending rook endgames

Prizes

1. $150 gift certificate to WholesaleChess.com

2. $75 gift certificate to WholesaleChess.com

3. $25 gift certificate to WholesaleChess.com

Bonus: We will also randomly pick 2 non-winning entrants and send them a free ChessVideos.TV t-shirt

When

Submissions will be accepted between Feb 23th - Mar 14th.

Details:

All submissions must be in before 11:59PM PST on Mar 14th. Videos must be original content (not posted anywhere on the net beforehand and created by you). Any sort of plagiarizing of material without permission of the original author is prohibited. By submitting a video to the contest you give the right to display and advertise the video to ChessVideos.TV. Any ties in the judging will be broken by Josh's decision.