I seriously have no idea how Youtubers and Twitch streamers can play Chess at a high level and actually speak coherent thoughts - let alone explain their game logic, move posibilities, setup variations and such, and at the same time keep it interesting for the audience so that they don't just close the video after a couple of minutes of nonsense, games lost on move 9 or simply because the streamer is quiet and thinking.
I played four games. I lost four games. And yet, the previous seven games I played I crushed the opponent.
So all I can do is blame the video part of my game.
I guess I'm not made to partition my brain power into three separate activities: Playing at a high level, explaining my train of thought to the audience in a coherent way, and think of funny and quirky shit to say to those watching, everything using my second language.
I am known in the realms of Mexican Chess - yeah right - as a never-quitter, so that's what will happen. I will keep practicing speaking, thinking and being funny even if I am just playing by myself without a camera.
Granted. I lost 4 games today. That's a bummer, especially since I worked so hard to get my ELO level back at 1070, and I really thought I would reach 1,100 today. But I was just not prepared enough.
Now, I'm stuck at 1,030 again (I played a couple more games after the video ended, lost them both as well), and all I can do is grind once more to get my level back to 1070 so that next week I am more than ready to reach 1,100.
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