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Opening Avengers - How to punish random play in the openings
Course
40 episodes
(4 hours 10 min)
(4 hours 10 min)
Creators
GM Avetik Grigoryan
GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes
What do you do when your opponent makes mistakes within the first 5 moves?
You follow the opening principles and keep playing good moves. That’s ideally what you should be doing. And in this course, we will take this a step further.
At ChessMood, we always want to give you the practical stuff for everything we teach.
So here in this course, you’re going to see real games, where the opponent broke opening principles and got punished.
See moreThese are all commented games, some of them taken from our live stream.
As you watch, you’ll understand how a Grandmaster thinks when their opponent makes an early mistake, how to punish unnecessary pawn moves, early queen adventures and many other things.
The next time your opponent breaks the opening principles, you’ll be ready to avenge them for their mistake!
Below are the positions from the course:
Let’s go ahead!
What you'll learn
- Punish opponents who break opening principles
- Understand a Grandmaster’s thought process to punish the opponent’s mistakes
- How to grab the early initiative in the opening?
- How to use the opening initiative to launch a successful attack?
- Why moving the same piece twice in the opening isn’t a good idea
- The problem with early Queen development
- How to take advantage of having better control in the center?
- What to do when the opponent ignores their development and so much more
Course Content
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40
Episodes -
4 hours 10 min
5
Students give this course an average of 5 out of 5 stars.
Ivaylo Kenov
Perfect course for my level (~1000 Rapid) because many players play weirdly in the opening. Thank you for the instructive games!
Chris Knight
Great fun!! And very educational. I'm starting to hear your voice in my head when these opening principles are broken ... "Ok, so how do we punish this?!"
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
hahah :-)
I always here my own voice in my head :-)))))
Hope you enjoy it :-)
Joseph Ford
Uncommon solutions for common play.
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Is that a compliment? haha :-)
Thanks!
Barney Powers
I love this course. It’s important to know how to play when opponent breaks opening principles. It’s doubly great because it is using our openings, so it’s positions that I actually see in games.
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks a lot, dear Barney!
Chathuranga Buddhika
This is not an easy work to done...
Hats off...
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thank you so much!
Henry Yang
Very good now I know how to defend agianst mysteryrious opennings.
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Poor your opponents 😁
Henry Yang
:)
Shlok Maheshwari
Very good course! It'll significantly help me avoid blunders in the opening.
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks Shlok,
It's great to know you can feel the positive changes in your games :-)
Tony O'Donovan
Great course brilliant instructors
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks!
Francois Chevalier
Clear!
Okke Miram
365/365
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
100/100 :-)
S ARUN KUMAR
simply awesome!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Simply thanks :-))))
Jatinder Singh
10/10
ChessMood
Thank you :-)
Gabriel Cattoir
I feel more armed to take vengeances on my opponents.
Thank you for making it look so easy and understandable!
GM_Avetik Grigoryan
Vengeances! :)
Love it! :)
Branny Bliss
That was great.
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks!
Jiahao Gu
5/5!
GM_Avetik Grigoryan
Why not 10/10? :) :)
Fady Magdy
good
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thank you!
Antonio Cristovao
Great Course, amazing instructors, I learned a lot 5/5.
ChessMood
Thanks a lot!
Kyle Sun
This is a super useful course, not seen in other places. I've studied the simple repertoire courses and I would still lose to players who avoid theory or don't know theory. But this course fixes that! Every beginner player should watch this course!
ChessMood
Thanks a lot, Kyle!
Vedant Mudaliar
good
Eric Lalas
Simply the best!
ChessMood
Thanks!
ChessPlayer Win
Just too good
ChessMood
Too good to be true? :)
sachin kumar bind
👍🙂
ChessMood
🧐🧐
sachin kumar bind
Now I have stopped losing in openings. Whenever someone plays like this I just think ohh this game is won and i really win like this. I defeated 1914 and I am 1675.
ChessMood
Nice!
Tony O'Donovan
Great course again by chessmood
ChessMood
Thanks, Tony!
Kamel Hamoudi
Awesome as usual!
ChessMood
Thanks! :)
Sabarish Kailasam
Wow! I learned a lot!
ChessMood
Super!
Aravinda Bhat
Good course
ChessMood
Thanks! Why not 5? :)
Giorgos Kechagias
Only 5 stars for chessmood courses ;)
ChessMood
Why not 7? :)
Giorgos Kechagias
If it was possible, I would give them all! :)
Reveik Poobalan
Thank you so much for searching your streams library and compiling it into a course. You guys never stop working! Boss.
ChessMood
Yep :) We'll when we're at our 90's. Maybe :)
Thanks!
Gabriel M.
Covers a very wide range of opening mistakes that you would expect to see at one point or another. This course especially gives good coverage on how to crush the opponent’s position after having a good lead in development and when you have a large space advantage. Highly recommended
ChessMood
Thanks, Gabriel!
Narek Gaitan
Great course as always
ChessMood
Thanks, Narek!
Punit Dodhiya
Nice great course really learned a lot from this course
Thank you
ChessMood
Super!
GM Avetik Grigoryan
After having a successful playing career where he became the Armenian Champion in 2010, GM Avetik Grigoryan found his passion for chess coaching and switched to it full-time.
Since then, he has guided many ambitious players to become Grandmasters and International Masters and has over 10 years of coaching experience.
He believes anyone can improve at chess, with the right mood and proper direction. And with that vision, he founded ChessMood in 2018.
After having a successful playing career where he became the Armenian Champion in 2010, GM Avetik Grigoryan found his passion for chess coaching and switched to it full-time.
Since then, he has guided many ambitious players to become Grandmasters and International Masters and has over 10 years of coaching experience.
He believes anyone can improve at chess, with the right mood and proper direction. And with that vision, he founded ChessMood in 2018.
GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes
Hovhannes Gabuzyan became a U-16 Olympic Champion in 2010. Two years later, at 17, he achieved the Grandmaster title.
He was the World University Chess Champion in 2016, the Armenian Champion in 2017 and 2021, and has represented his country at the prestigious Chess Olympiad.
He believes time is a person’s most valuable resource. This philosophy reflects in his swift play on the chessboard and his training methods that focus on squeezing the most out of one’s time.
Hovhannes Gabuzyan became a U-16 Olympic Champion in 2010. Two years later, at 17, he achieved the Grandmaster title.
He was the World University Chess Champion in 2016, the Armenian Champion in 2017 and 2021, and has represented his country at the prestigious Chess Olympiad.
He believes time is a person’s most valuable resource. This philosophy reflects in his swift play on the chessboard and his training methods that focus on squeezing the most out of one’s time.
How to punish the opponent when they break the opening principles? Watch and learn from practical games, commented by a Grandmaster.
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