Hello, champions. 
Here you can find sparring partners. 
You can write, for example, 

"Hey guys, my name is Bob, I'm from the USA, my rating is 2000 I'm looking for a sparring partner." 

Or even more specific like "I just finished the Caro-Kann course and I'm looking someone to play a friendly sparring games". 

Good luck! 
Hopefully, you'll find good friends too. 

Hello champions and welcome to the ChessMood team! 
We all are from different countries, different ages, have different professions... But one thing bounds us - the passion for chess.

Champions, we'll grow together and keep a warm relationship in our team. 
Please tell a bit about yourself in this post. 

#ChessMood_Family 

Hello ChessMood Family! 
Now I'm adding model games in each section of our course, so you have a better understanding of the positions. Some of them, I'll also add in the book, that I'm writing now (later about that.) 

Why did I write this post? :) 
If you played nice and instructive games with our ChessMood openings - please post here. 
I would be happy to add them as well. 

P.S 
The first course, where I'm going to add model games, gonna be the Scotch game. If you want to make a research in your games, start from the Scotch :) 

Hey Champions! 
The best way to achieve our main goal is to divide it into steps and make an action plan.
Let's write our goals list, the plan how we will do that and achieve our goals step-by-step. 

#COGRO (Constant Growth )
#Right Mood - Right Move! 

Hello ChessMood family, I have a question for you to ponder that has been on my mind recently, and now that GM Jaacob Aagaard (CEO of Quality Chess Publishing and one of the editors of Mayhem in The Morra) has joined our ranks, I thought that now would be as good a time as any to pose it. The question is how should we correctly evaluate the Morra Gambit, is it good for White, is it good for Black or should we simply consider it dynamically equal.

In my earlier days as a chessplayer I always figured with a bit of knowledge and accurate play Black should be able to snatch this pawn and emerge with an advantage. Now after years have past and my experience has grown I am not sure anymore if my previous conviction still holds true. Much ink has been spilt on this Gambit both for and against and still the chess world has been unable to settle on a definitive determination. 

I have posed the Morra question to many GM's over the years and most of them have opined it's a very dangerous gambit but probably incorrect, not a very satisfying answer for me who was hoping for something a bit more concrete. Then the following encounter happended, Morra Guru IM Marc Esserman with the White pieces was paired against none other than Vishy Anand in Gibraltar 2016 and the 'Gambit World' watched and waited with bated breathe to see whether Anand would venture the Sicilian and more importantly would Esserman dare essay his signature system.

Anand is still considered one of the best theoretically prepared players of our generation and when he played 1...c5 and Esserman unafraid plowed forward with 2.d4?!?!? the World half expected, including me, to be finally treated to the refutation of this irksome Gambit, instead we got 2...cxd4 3.c3 Nf6 and the World gave a collective sigh. Long story short Anand eventually got a worse position and was fortunate to hold the draw against his IM opponent, and thus granted a psychological victory to Morra aficionados everywhere. Reflecting on all this afterwards I concluded that The Morra is not met at GM level all that often, far less Elite GM level, so this could explain Anand's reluctance to enter its labyrinth against the World's foremost expert, still it also suggests there is no consensus on what the best line is against this Morra enigma even at GM level.  

So I ask again, what's the truth: Good; Bad; Dynamically Equal; or something else altogether.

When I preserved it, the nearest available time was after two weeks at 6:00am - 6:15am, Friday, December 11, 2020 (Africa/Cairo) but I was informed today with an emergent at that time in my work. Can I delay the time to 8:00am - 8:15am, Friday, December 11, 2020 (Africa/Cairo) or any other day and leave this time for other members?

Thanks a lot.

An interesting article. GM J Aagard seems to state momentum is the need to play dynamically?

The scientific definition & formula for momentum is p(momentum) = m(mass) x v (velocity)...kgs/s2

(NB I am no physicist, although I have a degree in a biological science subject & am certainly no GM!)

Even in my games, I have had many wins when I had the checkmate move, before my opponent could make the checkmate move, which might indicate I had some momentum. How much does this have to do with dynamic play or more simply, always keeping the extra move advantage as White in some games, or grabbing that tempo as Black in cases such as this game!

Playing dynamically, usually does mean maximising chess tempo in play which is playing with initiative. Speaking of tempo & initiative, I was chatting on the Twitch stream of a 1650 rated player, who stated tempo and initiative are the same?! Now, I do not hold that view and I think it is important to have clear definitions and understanding of concepts, both scientific & chess related.

Still, the bottom line, as there are so many ways to play the great game of chess, is to be true to yourself in your play! No limits..COGRO..Right Mood Right Move...happy momentous play all! ;-)

Hi all, 

My first post in the forums - I’m loving the Chess Mood content

Just a quick move order question in the Bf4 Pirc (lots of fun to play by the way) I’ve had a couple of opponents in recent Blitz games rather than play the usual plan of 8...Qa5 or 8...b5 go 8...Be6 immediately. Now this does have potential to transpose into familiar ground and indeed I’ve chosen 9.Kb1 here and both my opponents so far have played 9...b5 now. But what if 8...Be6 9.Kb1 Qa5 now? The threat is 9...b5 with no defence to the a pawn and the Nd5 idea doesn’t work here because the pawn on b5 now means the black Queen isn’t hanging. 

This exact move order doesn’t seem to be covered in the videos, and I confess I am a little stumped here, any feedback would be welcome. 

Are they hard for you? How often do you solve them wrong?

Hello Chessmood,

I discovered Chessmood few days ago and I have two questions about Chessmood Openings.

1) Do you plan on doing one day a course for 1.d4 player or do you really recommend to everyone to play your 1.e4 repertoire until a certain level and then maybe switch to closed openings when open games will be master?

2) Why do you prefer the Accelerated Dragon instead of the Hyperaccelerated Dragon which could avoid the Rossolimo?

I hope my questions don't seem rude, I'm really glad I discovered your work and will definitely become a PRO Member when I will be done with books I am already studying.

Thank you

I've never been able to play well against Bc4 after 1. e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4, or even on the second move 1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 (even though e6 is recommended to blunt the bishop). White can play a3 or not to preserve the bishop if d3 is played.

I assume this will eventually be covered in the anti-Sicilian course. What would be the right way for Black to play against it? Always found developing Black's light-squared bishop to then be a problem.

This is a pretty popular gambit on twitch with eric rosen. It may have a lot to do with my level (~1000-1400) but im getting it kind of a lot when I want to play the scotch (and they go petroff defense). I've been declining the gambit by playing  4. d4 to defend the knight but maybe accepting the gambited knight is better? I just want them to be out of whatever comfort they have with the gambit line. Just wondering if anyone had go to response to this.

Hello Sir,

In this Black Friday Offer, I completed the Maroczy Bind and Accelerated Dragon course. It was very different than my first views in the Maroczy Bind, I thought black has to defend always, but now I understood how to play it correctly. Besides this, can anyone tell me who are the experts in this Maroczy Bind and Acc. Dragon with black and white. I think one of them would be Iturrizaga, because I think somewhere GM Avetik Sir told that it would be beneficial to watch his games.

Thanks,

Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions! 
Welcome to the "Best games of November" competition.
Under this post, we invite you to post your best games that you will play this month. 

The Prize fund is 350K Moodcoins which is equal to 350$.  

The 1st prize  - 150K
The 2nd prize - 100K
The 3rd prize-  50K
The 4th Prize- 30k
The 5th Prize- 20k

Good luck with your games and keep the Right Mood! 
#ChessMood
#Right Mood - Right Move 

P.S
Here are the winners of September: 

1st-  Specter11   
2nd- Jay Garrison
3rd- Abhi Yadav
4th- Arman Shahzamani                
5th- Derek Simpson  

We all work daily on our chess skills and we do learn something new daily. In this post we will share what we learn daily. The point of this post is to motivate others  to work on skills. By hearing how experts are working daily will motivate me so much .

Post your answers like that:

Date: 

What you learnt:

What is your goal in your chess career? Which you think is realistic.

Dear GM Avetik Sir, it would be very helpful if you could add more books and also mention the rating range for which it is more beneficial

Dear ChessMood Family, my champions, my friends! 

Take a moment to write down all the disadvantages you will have when you don't learn all the stuff that we provide on ChessMood. 
If can be something like this: 

"I'll play my old bad openings." 
"I'll make simple mistakes on middlegames."
"I'll lose drawish theoretical endgames." etc... 

Now, write down the advantage you will have when you learn all this stuff. 
It can be something like this. 

"I'll start to put big pressure on opponents from the very beginning." 
"I'll start to play better openings which will also help me to play fundamental chess." 
"I'll still make mistakes in the middlegames, but I'll orient in new positions much easier, as I learn lots of new concepts." 
"I'll outplay my opponents in the endgames." etc... 

In the end, if in your lists will not be lots of disadvantages if you don't learn all this, and lots of advantage after you do, just unsubscribe from ChessMood PRO Membership. 

But if your lists gonna be big, just start to make a BIG and BOLD ACTION! 
We're going to add more videos to the exciting courses and upload more! (Especially in the Middlegames and Endgame sections). 

Right Mood - Right Move! 

With love, 
Your big brother in chess and the young one in life,
GM Avetik   

Note: Post is full of anger but deep respect to those who know me and who knows who I am  and deep respect to coach who always helped me but I just wanna ask some questions to those who think I am arrogant.

I heard recently from my friend that sometimes my posts looks like I am arrogant and self-centered. I felt shocked. I also feel like idk why a lot people think that  selfish and self centered and a guy who like to show off?  

I am arrogant because I post daily in chessmood?

I am arrogant because I talk a lot about chess because I have burning desire to improve?

 I am arrogant because I care for all those players who ask me to help them?

I am arrogant because I post a lot what I studied daily?

I am arrogant because I post a lot games saying I crushed sicilians using Grand Prix? Just because I wanna share 1000s of people the right path so they join Chessmood and learn from coach.

Tell me why any of you think from inside that I am arrogant?

I am arrogant because in past I said I work 10 hrs a day and I wanna make it 18 like I did in 2017. In 2017 I met my second coach and I went to his home and I worked with him 2 months and from a pure beginner I crushed almost everyone in below 1600 section. I gained 120 elo and got 1303 to 1465 in my second rated event of my life. He worked not only on my basics but also he drove 4 times in a month on weekend for 2 hrs so I can play with his friends and   I will have idea how below 1600 players think so when I play in real life I will have playing experience. He also worked on my physical strength and we walked daily 2 hrs in morning and an hr at night.

Well I am inspired from Bobby Fischer's movie "Pawn Sacrifice" in which at some point young fischer said he is working 18 hrs a day so he can be world champ. Here as  a beginner I work daily 8- 10 hrs so I can be 2000 in one year. So what's problem ? You think I am doing show off then tell me I will give you contact number of my mentor. Call him and ask him at what time abhi was sleeping and how much I worked as beginner there. You will realize not all are fake.  I think it's achievable to work 18 hrs a day if you do it like 5-6 hrs then improve your stamina and then reach 18 hrs a day. In my culture we can work like that if we chant God's spells. 

Now tell me why any of you think I am arrogant??????????? 

Is my hard work annoy you? Is my burning desire to improve chess hurt your ego that you have no potential to work like I am doing as beginner?  If you can't work then work on yourself instead of making comments or making statement on anyone without even knowing who I am. What you guys know about me? What you guys know about my past? What you guys know who motivate me to work ? how many of you guys know that from the age of 16 I wanted to become a chess master but my family did not understoof how chess works and my dad make fun of me when I lost so I only took less lessons and I also found very bad mentors in the beginning who never helped me and in 2017 when I found a nice mentor then my parents said work on computers and get a job and I had to leave chess studies to make them happy. I found a wrong computer institute which also taught me so rubbish computers and I worked on computers skills by my own again but in the end due to lack of money (because dad lost his job ) I left computers too. Then I was forced to prepare for govt. jobs and I only liked chess but now I am again on wrong track which I knew. Now in 2020 when there is no chance of getting government job then I started to work on chess and in march 2020 I was like beginner again but then I worked a lot and with the help of coach avetik I am playing min like 1800 FIDE now in less than a year. I am working with two 1900 elo players one from India and one from US and I am working with two 1600+ players One from US and one from India.  How many of you know my "Why"? 

You guys know nothing but still you guys bother me by calling me arrogant. 

Those who have so low thinking like that no matter master or beginner can kindly text me and then I will prove who I am. An arrogant guy or just a guy who love chess so much that I sleep with chess books. 

Well, I don't do react on most of the things but life taught me one thing. If anyone is nice with you then you have to do everything for them and those who try to hurt you then you have to kill them mentally and then leave them for forever. I don't believe in ignore people. I believe in kill them mentally. It took 20 mins of my life in writing this post but it helped me to get rid out of my anger and I hope it can be a proof that I am just a chess addict and I wanna become a Grandmaster. Some people speak but never work I speak after I work. I am improving slowly but surely and my all partners feel that and including coach. I am slow not intelligent and you can say an ordinary fellow but I wanna work to become an extraordinary guy. I don't wanna impress whole world. I wanna be satisfied with my own work. Right now I am nothing in chess but soon I will be something. 

sir is there any particular technique that you recommend for studying chess books

Hi,

Veru good site, of course, i will say this of the

most sensitive way (i hope), as advice: of course, your

model of sales is well designed, but, why not consider offer

individual courses  (with PGN's) Alongside to the current

model of PRO member? in order to no detract the scheme of

membership, those courses can be offered to a relative steep

price (e.g. $32). I have interest actually to purchase 2 or 3

courses individually.

Greetings from Mexico 

greetings