I'm very excited about the upcoming video to advertise the playlists as well- I agree that they are valuable ways to organize and promote youtube material. I make them all the time "for my own reference"-

LOL such as when I spent two days making an "Evolution of Style" playlist which you had already made.

However, I did that playlist for my own benefit, as a research resource for my own history videos.

Ok <Nakamura> yes of course he is the hottest chessplayer on the planet. Of the new playlists, his is the only one with a lot of views already.

I have looked closely at your existing playlists- I don't want to duplicate work again, but just to let you know- when I make a playlist of your videos on an individual Chess Master, I include every single video you ever made on that player. So it's a complete record.

I have you on subscription, so I'll be automatically alerted every time you make a new video that would go in one of my playlists of your work.

Here are two new ones:

<Kingscrusher> on <Ivanchuk>: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li...

<Kingscrusher> on <Short>: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists...

If you happen to notice any of your videos are missing from any of the Master Collections I make, do let me know so I can keep the record complete.

Eventually.

<Topalov by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel annotates games by Veselin Topalov, one of the most feared players in chess history. Included are all 12 of his World Championship games against Viswanathan Anand.

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel video annotates games by world champion Jose Raul Capablanca from a variety of analytical and historical perspectives.

FIDE Candidate Tryfon Gavriel takes a look at world champion Emanuel Lasker's contribution to chess. Of special note is a game "Einstein-Oppenheimer" which includes Einstein's reminiscences of Lasker.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li...

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<Alekhine by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel analyzes games of world champion Alexander Alekhine.

<Botvinnik by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel annotates games by world champion Mikhail Botvinnik- highlights include games against Tal, Smyslov, and Capablanca.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li...

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<Smyslov by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel video annotates games by world champion Vassily Smyslov.

<Euwe by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel video annotates world champion Max Euwe.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li...

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<Tal by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel video annotates games by world champion Mikhail Tal, one of the most beautiful attacking players in chess history.

<Petrosian by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel video annotates games by world champion Tigran Petrosian, considered one of the greatest masters of prophylaxis in chess history.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li...

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<Steinitz by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel video annotates games by Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official world chess champion. Special attention given to the first official championship match against Zukertort, and Steinitz's "accumulation of small advantages" theory.

<Kramnik by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel video annotates games by world champion Vladimir Kramnik, including every game from the 2008 Kramnik-Anand world championship match.

If not, should I make a collection for both of these world champions that does include every one of your videos on them?

The more playlists with your name, and the names of the world champions, in the "tag box," the more ways there are for people to accidentally find your videos when they do chess searches on youtube.

Please do make playlists for Anand and Kasparov - the navigation is good on those playlists.

Thanks for all your playlists so far - amazing work, and of course it will be going on the Videos menu at Chessworld soon.

I updated my Chessworld page:

The layout you are using at your website has great aesthetics- clear, beautiful, colored, you can add photos, videos to the text, and the font is good.

Lots of people never leave your website, employing it as a "one stop chess playground," so embedding all your youtube videos there is a grand idea.

In fact, I prefer to navigate from the video pages of <letsplaychess.com>, because it's easier to see what's where. In addition, because embedded playlists automatically open in a new window, you don't have to keep backtracking.

I have to start work again tomorrow- so it might take a few days to finish up the last two Champions.

Interesting to call the list <FIDE Champions>-

They aren't, strictly speaking- but that *is* the list of <recognized world champions> that FIDE agrees with, and prefers.

So I agree that's the best title for the list.

Yep, it is looking great and FIDE avoids the split controversy.

I've just reordered my own personal book collection in terms of historical figures on a time line and I realise that Korchnoi, Bronstein, etc - the "Uncrowned Kings" should also be on the Playlists page.

Please could you also do playlists for the "uncrowned kings" as voted by this particular website:

UNCROWNED KINGS

I was trying to think of others, maybe <Tarrasch>.

But not "maybe" <Bronstein>= he should be there for sure- certainly if <Larsen's> there, he has to be ahead of him even?!

24 games in a row against <Botvinnik> in 1950 and he did not "lose" the match, he only "lost" because the Champ got draw odds.

Anyways I'd like to add <Bronstein> to that list, and start a collection on him too.

You know what's exciting about this is that FIDE Champs and UNCROWNED KINGS games collections will be a "shadow organization" as your <Evolution of Style> series moves up to Capa, Alekhine, Euwe, and the Soviet School, currently underrepresented in your annotated videos.

So as you make the upcoming new Evolution of Style vids, they can be added one by one to my collections, so there will be two directions from which punters can find them on youtube.

I know this might sound like an advert for <David Bronstein> but he had a distinctive style- very very strong with the initiative in Open Middle Games, an aggressive player, especially within the Soviet School. Important contributions to opening theory as well, particularly in the Ruy Lopez.

I just re-read your post and saw you already had suggested <Bronstein>.

ahahah I spent several minutes reading the LIST and pondering before I wrote my post.

Incidentally <Tryfon> do you have the book "The Soviet School of Chess" by Kotov and Yudovich?

If you don't have it, I recommend it highly- it has a lot of explanatory and theoretical text to go along with the annotated examples games.

And it has some rare photographs as well.

Anyways I read it all the time. It would probably take me 500 years to go through every annotated game, so maybe I get to read it forever.

<Bronstein by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel annotates games of David Bronstein, "Uncrowned King"- one of the greatest masters never to win the world championship.

<Rubinstein by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel annotates games by Akvia Rubinstein, "Uncrowned King", one of the very greatest of Masters never to become world champion.

<Larsen by Kingscrusher>

FIDE Candidate Master Tryfon Gavriel annotates games of Bent Larsen, "Uncrowned King", one of the strongest masters in history never to become world champion.