I IMMEDIATELY Knew This Bar Chess Player Was Good 

Maurice is a 1600 but with a two beer force multiplier he turns into a 2300🍻

Love the voice overs! They help novice chess players understand what is happening for sure.

I really enjoy the commentary with these videos, great mix of commentary and letting us listen in on the conversation every now and then! More of this please!

The diagrams on the board to illustrate the voice over make these games serve as valuable learning experiences for seeing how you are planning your next move.

These are easily your best style of videos, awesome stuff!

The voiceovers are great! There is a good balance between opponent conversation and voiceover with reasons behind the moves.

Really learn a lot from your content. I also appreciate that you show both your wins and loses and what you learn from both. Thank you.

I love the commentary, Anna. Also, the dramatic music is a great touch.

Loving the voice overs! They’re very helpful and fun

I look forward to every one of your chess commentaries. Your sunny attitude brightens the day of many.

I concur with the other comments. This style of video accomplishes what you have set out to do, share your love of the chess game and show how fun it can really be, while your learning and blundering your way up the ranking board. Thank you for being you your awesome self and these videos are entertaining and

hi anna! these are my favorite kind of chess videos

Thanks, Anna. I really like your voiceovers, as they allow me to follow your games more easily, and I can follow your thought processes this way.

Love tagging along with these games and the commentary is GREAT! Thank you.

Never trust a man who can go eleven minutes without taking a sip of beer.

Thank you for the passion and hard work in these videos. I haven't played chess in 10+ years, now I find it facination.

Voice over commentary makes the game much, much more interesting to watch because you're going through the drama of the game and feelings as well as the rationale behind the moves, and how it looks with the rating bar. Keep this going please. Thank you.

Yup, really like these videos. Just literally discovered your channel today. Never had an interest in Chess, never learnt how to play but I got a chess board for Chrismas so hoping to pick a few things up. It's great to see the social aspect of chess, there's so much to this game, I'm fascinated

You are my favorite Chess Channel. Your enthusiasm and love for Chess is infectious and inspires me to play and learn more Chess. Keep up the great work

I've watched a couple videos from you before, but they didn't have the explanation and analysis this one did; this is great, I look forward to more!

I enjoy watching you play folks OTB out in the wild, so I'd watch them anyway, but the VO commentary is extremely helpful and raises the quality of the content considerably, in my opinion.

The commentary with the soft music is great!!! Please keep doing this style. It really keeps and hold my interest.

The voice-overs are so helpful - please continue...

Another instructive voice over! Really love this theme you have going! (Not so crazy about the dancing background music tho--kind of distracting--your narration and the game stand perfectly their own! 🙌😘) Looking forward to the next one! ❤

it's kind of joy watching and learning chess in this form also you've got a great representation skills as well wish you to keep up the good work

I am not even a chess player but I watch your videos. So voice overs are great help on understanding what is going on.

the format is great. and your energy is always very pleasurable

Sigue con este formato, es genial!

Love this new format with the voiceovers and diagrams. awesome

I love all your videos Anna. Love seeing you play in tournaments as well …

the ambiance plus the voice over......oooohhh never thought that watching chess vids will soothe my ears

Nice format IMO, explaining your thoughts as you show the play, just sticking to the game (no variations), with a great selection of music at a perfect volume. You are getting good at this production stuff to. But so far, this kind of vid suits me the best for learning myself. You are "teaching" here. :)

So cool idea making voicecover to your match. It gives kind of a story atmosphere, giving the fact that you're telling us, in real time, what you were thinking. For example, when you take some time in the match, you are explaining why and stuff like that. Thanks and God Bless!

The Voice Overs with Quick Explanations & Analysis are Awesome 👍🏾

I’m really so entertained by your videos. Thank you for making them.

I just discovered your videos and find them so fun! You are delightful! Thank you! Best regards form Utah!

Maurice is 2300 when not drinking beer! He was drinking during the gabe and played down to 1800.

Anna that is one of your best videos. I like especially your explainings

Yes.. the commentary is super for those of us who relish strategy, technique, concepts, blah blah. With Ms Anna traveling more, this really helps balance out the lost twitch-ing. Personally, I crave the learning side of chess.

I'm just getting back into chess after a long time. Your videos are my favorite. You are so positive, even when you aren't winning. It's refreshing to see. Also, love the explanations in the voiceover. It helps to understand the thought process. Thanks you for doing these videos. Keep them coming

I love the voiceovers Anna! Incredible content

I teach at a Dutch primary school. Last week, all the higher-year students were allowed to participate in workshops hosted by parents (some kids went baking, some went to a Christmas Village, etc.). Quite a few of the kids wanted to play chess. I hosted, together with two students' fathers, a short chess course (pretty basic concepts), followed by about 1,5 hours of free play. While I was walking around and checking in on the students, one of the dads asked me (he prepared a presentation for the kids on basic chess concepts) to play, while we walked around the classroom. I play about twice a month, 1,5 hours each time against my grandfather. While I held up all the way into the late middle game, I noticed my pieces were quite tied up and I resigned after some passive moves and losing a pawn. Then he told me that back in the day, he played tournaments and was a 2100. I never played someone about as strong as you, I now see the importance of playing of of a plan hahaha. Winging it didn't work. Such a fun game, chess is.

I think the rating of Maurice is 1800 or 1900 ELO An MI or GMI never loose like Maurice at the end of this game

The voice over commentary is priceless, it’s why I subscribed

Anna, me encanta el buen rollo que transmites, ver cómo disfrutas y escuchar cómo te ríes. Más los comentarios, la música, los diferentes escenaroos... Vamos... haces un gran trabajo. ¡Gracias! Thank you!

Loved the voice-over/narration. 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Anna, I agree with those who loved it. Original. Unique. Fascinating--really great to see how chess players think and feel. Bravo. However, I'm afraid the music was tolerable but only barely so. Had the video been longer, the music would have detracted from it. Please try these videos (at least sometimes) with no music (the background sounds of the cafe are wonderful and sufficient), or else music that is less dramatic, less repetitive (think cool jazz or laid-back classical), and also a bit quieter, even more in the background so it doesn't attract any attention to itself, detracting from your great video, but only adds to the video without being itself even noticed by the viewer. Thanks again, Anna. (Could you play slightly longer games? If too long, you could edit them down to ten or eleven minutes while doing the voiceover narration.)

Really enjoying your recent videos with commentary during the game. Excellent! Thanks Anna. :- )

Great content, the voiceovers are very helpful and educational too

Merry Christmas Anna. Interesting game and fun to watch.

Okay but "I probably have an active winrate against him" is a pretty great truthful-but-polite answer.

I love your voice over that very helpful

So cool to add commentary, i am french and i understand all what you say because your voice is great and you speak not too fast....continue!

Very cool way of sharing your chess game with storytelling.

I love the new format with the voice overs!

Never underestimate a guy who shows up with a beer in his hand XD

Merry Christmas Anna!! 🎄

The voice overs are great, actually. I like hearing your thought process.

Love the voice overs. U did fine, Anna.

As a small bit of advice, I sometimes think you are too fixated on player's ranking and you get nervous against higher ranked players which affects your game. A player is as good as they play against you, their ranking means nothing.

Awesome voice overs! :) The one thing I'd like is to hear a bit more of the dialogue.

Great work. Very enjoyable narration, clarifies the game for novices.

Love ur channel and ur videos. Great stuff

I like the voice overs . I'm a beginner and I like that explain what you are doing .

Hi Anna, I'm not a really good chess player, but I love this game for the reason that you present so well in this video format: chess is an incredibly exciting game. I am very happy about this format from you. By the way, I always play without a clock, otherwise I can hardly stand the tension :-)

Voice overs makes it an interesting story for non chess players. I love it.

Great to see you play chess at the 2Klaveren. It’s a great hangout for game lovers in Amsterdam 🍻 Have fun in the capital.

I live the voice over! Please keep going!

Wonderful to watch good players not see simply hanging pieces like I do in longer games. Great voice over as well.

Hi Anna FELIZ NAVIDAD ,MERRY CHRISTMAS

Yes I love this content :) your so happyall the time I love it. Your smile is contagious

There are CaroKann positions where B takes the pawn on f6 with the R

Merry Christmas Anna!

Tremendous job Anna, keep up the good work that you do - in our house we love your wholesome videos.

loved the commentary

When im playing someone with unknown strength i immediately get goosebumps and butterflies

Nice to see you visited my country ❤ I have never seen this Dutch chess player. But you are really good I ❤ to see it😃

This was cool, a really good game to watch and he is definitely very decent!

commentary thought process is so good! loving this style of content

Sorry Anna! Stay strong! Love the voice overs!

Excellent format Anna....

Yes on VO!

Anna, no sé absolutamente nada ( Nada ) sobre ajedrez pero me gusta ver a esta malacitana demostrar su nivel e inteligencia

- Hi Im Maurice - Hi whats your name? - Maurice

I love the way you describe your own thought process...❤

Having the king out in the open was so cold blooded of him. It tells me he is an 1800-1900

Fun to see e4 c5 Be2 in action!

a chess bar would be so cool theres a bar that has lots of board games and "table instruments " but a nice cozy place to have a drink meet people and play chess sounds so nice

The man-bun immediately gave it away.

As a kid I thought that P-Kr3 (...h6) is a useful, risk-free way to do something when there is no clear plan. However, I began to have trouble in games, esp. QGDs because I like to move the f-pawn and eventually the squares around the king get too weak. Later on, while watching some GM commentary I heard them refer to such moves as 'hooks' or something to attack. I think maybe there are a lot of strong players, even IMs who play P-Kr3 without thinking about the future. As for the queen's bishop, it's always a problem piece and simply placing it on b7 isn't a panacea solution. Generally speaking, the piece on c8 likes to jump into the game on the k-side with a bang!. Both elements require great patience, which perhaps is a poor mixer with early, short-term tactical possibilities. well, I'm talking too much, and being a weak player probably sound ridiculous. Thanks for the video - I enjoyed it.

I looked him up at the club's website. There is one Maurice and his rating is only 1530

I wish I could have been there to see the faces around when their secret weapon sat down for the game.

Nice video and commentary. With the first name and the chess club one can find an ELO rating for a person whom he might be... of about 1500. I would have guessed quite a bit more.

"Beautiful Mike, you've done it again." They say you can't hear words.

Wild guess: 2000 ELO. Edit: Love the voice-overs, btw.

When it's less than 10 seconds left there is not chess anymore.

yep love the voice overs!!

I love the way you tell the story.

Really like this voiceover format

Man I don’t know anything about chess, I don’t even know the rules but it’s so comfortable watching and listening to you so I guess I keep doing this thank you