i am almost 13 now, one thing i am going to ask, can i make a video that is 2 hours long? because i am going to spent the whole time on playing chess when it's my birthday. Don't know if encoder is still working.
i will play on every site that day and make a really long video...

should be no problem http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-video-search.php?q=roundup&s=&p=&dmin=&dmax=
you may want to split it up though just incase you lose the recording somehow.

Hi everyone,

My name is Bart and I am from the Netherlands. I live in a small town about 40 kilometers north of Amsterdam. I am 16 years old and started playing chess about four years ago. My (Dutch) rating is 1705, and I am still improving (at least, I hope so). I really like this site. There are some great videos and I think that the forum is a great place for for sharing opinions on all sorts of topics related to chess. I really feel that I can improve my play by using this site!

Hi guys,

My name is Aaron and I'm from the U.S. I've been enjoying videos on this site for quite some time now! My USCF rating is a little over 2000 and my FIDE rating is a little over 2100. I actually just tried making my own video for the first time tonight, but I encountered some audio difficulties -- I think my microphone is picking up my laptop's internal fan, which makes random really annoying loud sounds sporadically throughout the video. So I have two questions:

1) How can I work around this?
2) Should I still post the video?

Thanks!

I wouldn't use the built in microphone if that is what you did. You might try turning off mic boost in the recording properties as well, the encoding software on this site tends to bump the volume up a bit as well when it compresses. Welcome aboard! You wouldn't happen to be from ohio would you? I'm looking for some new playing partners

Hi Everyone!
Im 51, and have been playing chess off-on since I was 14.
I aspire to reach master by age of 60 (I hope!!), I just started taking chess seriously,
up till now I just played off-hand games now and then, and even entered a couple of tourny's.
I wish everyone a great day!!
John.[zargon48]

Hi Bart, Aaron, and John,

Welcome to the best and happiest chess corner in cyberspace!

=wild=

Hello everyone!

My name's Vasco, Portugal born and raised, living in France since around six years.
Learned playing chess when I was a kid, but never took it seriously though.
Some time ago I got really interested in chesslore and acquired lots of books and some sofware. Unfortunately I never seem to get time to practice. I must say I feel pretty lousy with a little more than just 1000 ELO...
Anyways, it's great to be here! And thanks for all the cool help

Hi Vasco! Welcome aboard!

Hi guys!
My name is Viktor, and I'm a 15 year old croatian. I've started playing chess about half a year ago and currently my rating is around 1750. My username translates to "The secrets of the mind" on croatian, which was the title of a book about psychology that was next to me when I was thinking of a name.
I plan to do some videos on the modern benoni and the dragon variation of the sicilian (both of which are my main black defenses) and some endgame and tactics studies.
Great to be here and have a nice day!

Welcome aboard, Viktor! Glad to have you here!

Welcome, Viktor and Vasco. We are very happy you came here!

Hi to the new guys, and I just want to say to Hapa - MICHIGAN SUCKS! Go Bucks! OSU alumnus here, had to throw that in, sorry

Oh its ON!

Haha well actually most of my family went to OSU, so I'm used to it more than others =P

Hi, my name is Ronnie. I'm from Finland and I'm 30 years old. A few days ago I got the notion that I wanted to learn chess again. I say again, cause I played once a week for about a year in a chess club when I was a teenager. I played casual and there wasn't much interest in studying any opening theories back then. So I'm pretty much a blank slate when it comes to it all.
I think I have a good foundation to become a good player if I just get motivated to understand and learn. This because I scored very well on Mensa's IQ test, which is about recognizing and visualising the logical continuum of patterns. My weakness is my impatience and a habit of sometimes loosing focus. This will probably not only be a problem in my play, but also when I try to study chess. I'm hoping to overcome it.