Jun 8, 2026 · 15 min · 11 segments
This is an important update about the future of Maverick Chess. After creating more than 420 videos, 81 Shorts, 87 livestreams, 45 podcast episodes, 61 community posts, and building an amazing chess…
For the first time since starting the channel, I'm taking a break.
Not forever, not because the channel is ending, not because I don't love creating content.
In fact, it's the opposite.
It's because I care so much about this channel, I just think it's time for a reset, for a change.
And so here is what we're gonna be doing.
Uh, I've got, like, some nice little graphics here.
Six hundred subscribers.
I'm just gonna be rolling with the nice round number.
Four hundred and twenty videos.
One big decision.
I will be telling you exactly when I'll be coming back, so don't worry about that.
The numbers just, again, four hundred and twenty videos, eighty-one Shorts, eighty-seven live streams, forty-five podcasts, sixty-one community posts, and six hundred subscribers.
Here is why I'm taking a break.
Firstly, university exams.
I've already written one.
I've got two coming up next week.
They are extremely important, uh, and they are really requiring all of my attention, and I love this channel, but it is very distracting.
I've tried to upload daily for the last eighteen months.
It has been very challenging, it has been very time-consuming, and it's been very stressful.
Talking about that, I am just a little bit burnt out and a little bit stressed.
So creating content, it's at points stopped feeling as exciting, and it has started to feel like an obligation, which it is, and it isn't.
For the first time since starting the channel, I'm taking a break.
Not forever, not because the channel is ending, not because I don't love creating content.
In fact, it's the opposite.
It's because I care so much about this channel, I just think it's time for a reset, for a change.
And so here is what we're gonna be doing.
Uh, I've got, like, some nice little graphics here.
Six hundred subscribers.
I'm just gonna be rolling with the nice round number.
Four hundred and twenty videos.
One big decision.
I will be telling you exactly when I'll be coming back, so don't worry about that.
The numbers just, again, four hundred and twenty videos, eighty-one Shorts, eighty-seven live streams, forty-five podcasts, sixty-one community posts, and six hundred subscribers.
Here is why I'm taking a break.
Firstly, university exams.
I've already written one.
I've got two coming up next week.
They are extremely important, uh, and they are really requiring all of my attention, and I love this channel, but it is very distracting.
I've tried to upload daily for the last eighteen months.
It has been very challenging, it has been very time-consuming, and it's been very stressful.
Talking about that, I am just a little bit burnt out and a little bit stressed.
So creating content, it's at points stopped feeling as exciting, and it has started to feel like an obligation, which it is, and it isn't.
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