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The upcoming changes! (important)

Hey everyone! 

Very soon we’re launching our redesigned website and the prices will rise for new PRO Members. however, it’ll stay the same for our students who became PRO before the new website! 

If you don’t have any intention to become a PRO Member, speed up your growth and join hundreds of our students who raised their rating significantly, it’s up to you. It’s your life.

But if you wanted to become a PRO Member one day, that day is today.
Before we launch the new website.

As Tim Ferris said, “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”  :D
And after we launch the new website, today’s price will not be available anymore.

Below is the link, where you can become a PRO Member, get unlimited access to 300+ hours of courses, live training and much more. 

https://chessmood.com/become-a-pro

And as Zig Ziglar said “You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. ”

It’s your move.
With best wishes,
Avetik

P.S
I’ve always hated selling. I’ve hated marketing and advertisement.
But then I “got a call” from Jay Abraham, who said “If you have a product that you GENIUNELY believe will change the world, you have the MORAL OBILIGATION to sell it.”

I have a moral obligation… That touched my heart.
So, while it might sound I’m selling you the PRO Membership, I genuinely believe that ChessMood is the best place to speed up your chess growth and I’m trying to help you.

Hopefully, you appreciate my honesty.
Cheers. 

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I agree with you. Became a pro member and this is the only website where I have found content which is targeted to people who are starting chess. Looking forward to more courses and material for player around 1200 levels.

Middlegame skills, how to enhance?

What is the best way/routine to improve middlegame skills? 

The classical game are perfect and very instructive but I think we need to practice idea and plan about our chessmood repertoire! Are you agree?? 

And..we also have to consider how much time to spend on middlegame weekly because there are a lot of fields to train as tacticts and endgame skills. (I consider the parte of OP done)

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Themed tournaments

Hi all,

If you are like ,e then you are probably struggling sometime to practise what you learn in the opening videos. I found that doing some rapid games are not working for and want to find another way and was thinking to create some themed 1 day per move tournaments for PRO members

rules should be:

1. you cannot use an engine
2. you can use, and should, the video course on the theme we are playing.
3. you play white and black, so 2 games.

If anybody is up for this I will create this on Lichess or chess.com depending on where people are playing online

Please reply here if you are interested

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Theo,

Thank you for organizing this, I would participate.

I think it will also contribute to the community feeling as people become more familiar with each other. 

Thanks

Blackmood opening...We're waiting!

We're waiting the blackmood opening...The whitemood OP course is fantastic!

I had my own png file but it is almost useless at my level (1500-1600). I finally understand idea and positions about my white repetoire, I felt that something was missing and with this course I found the last piece of equation. When you are a 1600 player your opponent don't study a lot of theory and position in the board are very very different. 

Thanks Chessmood team for this update!!

Alessio 

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I completely agree.  I keep checking for the blackmood openings.  I love openings but at my level, rated 1000, my opponents usually play something strange by move 4 that derails everything and I struggle to punish them.  The new course has been great!

It will be coming shortly to all your screens! :-) it takes a lot of time to create, verify, record, check the videos but we love to to do it, for most of us it is a dream job, working on chess all day! The feedbacks on the Whitemood openings have been fantastic and we have to do the same for Black! ;-)

Thanks for your kind words! 
We'll keep doing our best. 
Please cheer up us with your raised ratings! :) 

Why did the blog stop?

Why did the blog stop?

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Maybe there are not enough hours in a day.

Tactic Ninja, Mating Matador, simplefied repertoire for White and Black ... New website ... 

Well, the blog did not exactly stop, it is just in standby mode, but I am sure that the most important points to learn are already explained.

And yes, doing lots of courses and different things for all of you, the new website is almost, almost ready, fingers crossed!!!

Dear friend, we had to make decisions and instead of doing all, sacrifice something. 
We'll restart once a week blogs right after launching the new website :) 

The best games of February, 2022, and the prizes

Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions! 
Welcome to the "Best games of February 2021" competition.
Under this post, we invite you to post the 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 January, 2022:

Vladimir Bugayev
Skipper Chess
Arman S.
Yuma Okabe
Regis H.

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Hello ChessMood family!

We saw some really amazing games in the 1st month of 2022, filled with unique ideas, attacking games and positional masterpieces! It was a pleasure to go through them. 

Here is the list of prize winners for January 2022...

The 1st prize goes to Vladimir Bugayev for this fantastic positional game.

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35359014531

The 2nd prize goes to Skipper Chess for this deadly attacking game with a nice finish. 

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12589506/

Arman S gets the 3rd prize for their creative idea of bringing the Rook into the game. 

https://lichess.org/BQf4mU6Q

Yuma Okabe bags the 4th prize for their interesting positional exchange sacrifice with 16.Rxd5 and a nice tactic to finish off the game.

https://lichess.org/ejOJLqJv/white

The 5th prize goes to Regis H. for their brave 11... b4 move.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/36163167649

Congratulations to all of you, and thank you everyone for sharing your games :) 

It’s a great start to 2022, and we look forward to seeing you all grow.

Till then, keep the right mood and Cogro!

See you in the next month’s contest!

Attacking Game!
and cool mate

https://www.chess.com/game/live/37552286853

Almost perfect philidor attack

https://lichess.org/Qxuv8NDY/white#53

Not bad for a bullet game huh? hehe

Thank you Coach!

https://www.chess.com/live#g=37830055965

https://www.chess.com/live#g=37883453035

https://lichess.org/Zh0vivPh/white#33

The reason we should castle or else we end up like this!

ChessMood Openings OP 

#RightMoodRightMove #Cogro

Positional french

https://lichess.org/kyztxtcy/white

https://lichess.org/BN9t1IuBB2ec  trying to create weaknesses ( minority attack)

https://lichess.org/tUYQVNSS/white#41

The reason we should develop fast and not go for material 

Center break!!

https://lichess.org/vIRPC6rQ/white#47

Fast attack in CM antisicilian

https://lichess.org/a9WEI4rt/white#1

Grand Prix ...and another win!

https://lichess.org/fsPzCyvL3CLB 

nice Petroff crush with improvement on the course !

https://lichess.org/8FXOfCs1CHAC 

I won against FIDE2100+ with right mood!

https://lichess.org/6O6VCWZN 

Also when I started this game,I was very excited and I played very dynamic!!!

And I crushed him with just 18 moves!!

This bullet game is a good application of old timer Damiano's mate from the new Chess Matador course.

Thank you Avetik!

https://lichess.org/5dD57roaQFzI

Cheers

Ovi

When powerful coordination beats material 

https://lichess.org/0dj5Mygi/white#0

https://lichess.org/fP4w9D6R#55

dangers of playing h6

I’m almost definitely going to get banned from lichess with this game.  Don’t know how I did it but it’s 0 inaccuracies/mistakes/blunders

https://lichess.org/1JaWIrpM/white

Winning my first 2700 GM on Titled tuesday

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/38679854447

I could have mated faster, but this was a great game for me with the Scotch.  Loving the Whitemood Openings.  Lichess said Avg. Centipawn Loss of 26 (which is amazing for me)!!!

First 2400 down with caro can

https://lichess.org/fjlnHeTby1qG 

Grand Prix 

https://lichess.org/RwuDq1DM/white#35 

Perfect game!

https://lichess.org/nIBnnJT3/white#37

Grand Prix working again

https://lichess.org/j4wv3nD2/white#39 

Caro can - 20 move win with chessmood opening

https://lichess.org/s21DLVWuZAAW 

Here is one of my best games from the Southwest Class Championships in Dallas.

Here is another good game from the Southwest Class Championships

nice

Scotch game, follow the course and checkmate#

https://www.chess.com/game/live/39401970291

Green_Keo vs UndertakervsKane: B10 Caro-Kann Defense • lichess.org

Opponent made a mistake Nc4 and I won the game after Rxb7. (Second highest rated opponent that I have defeated).

Haven't played chess in a while, and still increased my rating by 130 points.

Anty sicilian works again! 

https://lichess.org/KHOppnXr9sOM 

Intuitive rook sacrifice vs GM

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12642824/

Breakthrough in opposite-coloured bishop ending. 71. ... f4!

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12649173/

Chessmood setup in English opening, mating attack

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12648863/

Good positional game vs IM

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12716259/

https://lichess.org/AyfQ3Sj3/black#16
Was losing for the majority of the game but made a comeback in the endgame!

Thank You Couch!!

Cool scotch squeeze

https://www.chess.com/game/live/39898121979 

Simplified Opening Repertoire

Just a note to the Chess-Mood team. I really appreciate all the extra work that has gone into this. I have to admit that whilst I like the e4  attacking style, I sometimes become seriously unglued in 10 min games and in very tactical open positions find, because I am not Tal, I can make a serious slip that takes +6>  on LiChess to a loss or draw. 

Thanks I appreciate all the work . Very helpful.

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Yes, this is one of the main problems of any chess player, keeping the concentration and not making blunders. We are working on a course that will help to solve this too although it is more complex than anyone could have imagined at the beginning...

In the meanwhile step by step, try to keep calm and good mood while playing, we always forget how important it is to have the right mood and not to play when you are too tired!

A stunning alternative to a mating matador mate!!

Unbelievable!

In the mating matador course, the Balestra mate, example #5, there is actually a non-balestra mate possible.

After the Nb3#, there is also Ba3# and  white can't avoid mate delivered with the queen and knight.

Cheers

Ovi

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Hey Ovi! Sorry, I didn't understand what do you mean? :) 

Santa Avetik Wishlist

Thank you to the Chessmood team for the new classes! I have just started the classes, but I can already say that, as always, the content is superb :)

This is just one opinion among others, and whether you do it or not, I am going to renew my PRO membership, but here is my Santa Claus (Santa Avetik?!?) wishlist:

=== OPENINGS ===

- Expand Benko Gambit (*)

- Expand Crushing d4 Sidelines (**)

- Complete Czech Pirc

- Complete Alekhine Defense

=== ENDGAMES ===

- Rook endgames (***)

- Endgame strategy (along the lines of Shereshevsky’s book that I have not read)

- More Instructional Classical Endgames (****)

(*) Just compare Philidor Defense (5h30) vs. Benko Gambit (3h09). If you’re 2200, the Benko Gambit should occur in ~8% of your games, while the Philidor Defense should occur in only ~1% of your games (taking into account Modern Philidor and 3….Nc6 that can also occur with a Scotch move order). I am not saying that the Benko Gambit course should be 44 hours long (if we take the Philidor class as the baseline), but could we expand a little bit?

(**) For example:

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bg5

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 (staying away from Benko and Maroczy)

(***) I am thinking of:
Basic theory along the lines of what Daniel Rensch did for chess.com

Typical situations (e.g. 3 vs. 3 on the kingside and one passed pawn on the queenside)

Practical rook endgames (along the lines of Kortchnoi’s book that I have not read)

(****) I am not worried about this one as you keep adding up. It’s really great stuff and I hope that you don’t stop anytime soon!

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Classical Attaking Games & Instructional Classical Endgames will have 100 games like Commented Classical Games (this is announced in the introductions)! (New games are uploaded each week before they start streaming on Youtube)

I hope you will enjoy the content, personally, the Classical Endgames is my favorite series from Chessmood! 

PS: I think this content is already quite similar to what you can find in Shereshevsky's book! Also, don't forget about the Daily Lesson with a GM on Youtube, the material is also very nice there!

Yes, I completly agree e.g with  extending Benko Gambit for black.

Chessable are going very deep with their courses so we also need reliable weapon especially as black. Probably the most members are below 2200 but as they said there also GM.

I hope improved course will be on he new page :)

Dear friend! Thanks a lot. 
Yeah, these all are on our to-do list and I and Gabuzyan spend on average 5 hours a day recording material. Everything is coming :) 

Well, I would like to have a course on Benoni authored by GM Avetik.  There are many good courses on it. But as Dvoretsky said, "Evaluations, heard from the lips (or read in the commentaries) of the experts of an opening, sometimes help you to sense the subtleties of opening strategy far better than lengthy articles and specialized books."

Doubt in Petroff course

In Section-8 of the Petroff course after 6...Be7 7.Bd3 0-0 8.0-0 Bg4 9.h3 Bh5 10.Re1 Re8 11.Bg5 Nbd7 12.Re3 after Nf8 it is mentioned we are supposed to go 13.Bf5.

Why is it not possible to take 13.Rxe7 and go Nd5 here ?

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Hello Pragkya,

Could you please clarify a number of the video?

13. Rxe7?! Rxe7 14. Nd5? Nxd5 and White is lost. White could try 14. Bxf6 instead but then White would have to prove that there is enough compensation for the exchange (however, I would play this with White in blitz).

Tactics website suggested by coach Avetik

At the end of the tactics Ninja course (a good course for sure!), Avetik suggested CT-ART as the best tactics course. Chess.com and Li were not even close in his estimation and I agree....I'm tired of doing tactics on chess.com that rarely come up in real games.

There are a few courses on this website. One in particular is the CT-ART 4.0 with tactics from 1400-2400 level.

The free app is great BTW, just tried it a few days ago.

Other courses incorporate various other lessons that do not always pertain to tactics.

Is the 4.0 course the one he was referring to? Avetik, specify please?

Thanks and cheers to all!!

ovi

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Hi Ovi, I guess so (CT-ART 4.0). I have this on my android phone and really like it and included it into my study plan (the number in brackets is the number of puzzles in the section):

CT-ART – 2^nd iteration – without advanced

·       1.1. Annihilation of defence (63) 

·       1.2. Distraction (140) 

·       1.3. Decoy (138) 

·       1.4. Discovered attack (86) 

·       1.5. Opening a file (86) 

·       1.6. Clearance (44) 

·       1.7. X-ray attack (11) 

·       1.8 Interception (40) 

·       1.9 Blocking, encirclement (31) 

·       1.10. Destruction of the pawn shelter (138)

·       1.11 Pawn promotion (52)

·       1.12 Intermediate move. Winning of a tempo (48)

·       1.13 Play for a stalemate (14)

·       1.14 Restricting of material (6)

·       1.15 Pursuit (27)

·       1.16 Conjunction of tactical methods (278) 

While I like CT-ART (it's based on Max Blokh's tactics book - something like The Art of Combination and other titles), I find there are a few flaws with it:
Some problems are still too long and not reasonable
The help system (once you've exhausted the hints) isn't very good
The broken English is annoying
The auto-play is annoying and sometimes gives away something you didn't calculate.
It could do with some coaching on the harder problems especially, so it's useful to do a course like Tactic Ninja first

It is a good choice (along with for example 1001 winning chess sacrifices on chessable, chess tempo and daily puzzle rush), though not sufficient alone.

I would disagree with chess.com's tactics being not representative of real games, they are from real games, more so than tactic books. However, it's 'moderated' from an algorithm which selects puzzles some of them aren't so good and also is heavily based on difficulty when playing timed. Thus the obvious move ones are lower rated (even if not objectively easy): the lower ratings are full of obvious back rank mates, the level progression is not always smooth, and you can't skip. It can be gamed somewhat by remembering at lower levels it's likely the obvious move even on something that looks unclear, and that there is only one best solution (so it won't go any further than where there are two good moves). Also sometimes the puzzles are based on defence, draws or status quo rather than tactics. It does help you recognise which patterns you know, as ones you get wrong. or need to think about a lot. may be down to not recognising patterns which alerts you to something you may need to train or remember.I find it's far more based on pattern recognition than forward calculation, and perhaps this is down again to being selected for rating based mostly on the timed version. However this also means it's a good training aid, even if you have to solve 20-30 obvious puzzles before you get challenged.

I think, you guys will like what we create on ChessMood for improving tactics :) 
Our tech team is working there :) 

WhiteMood Openings

I can't find the homework files for this course.  Please help!

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https://chessmood.com/blog/the-most-effective-way-to-create-chess-pgn-files

Hi Randy, this approach should work very well with this new overview course including not too many line but orally explainig the ideas/plans. Therefore, I suggest to write many keywords regarding the plans and evaluation of the positions into your pgn.

Just came in per email

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Hoi4MbBZsEAUSfgek-8oTVD5LD03CtNh?usp=sharing

Randy, the drive link is in the description. 

Training with a board, or with a computer?

Hello coaches and all chess friends,

I have been working with different sources and courses in chess. And I seem to realize that some coaches are really strict about using a board when studying or analyzing a chess game or a position, and some are just fine and not that strict about that. 

In myself, I have not notcied a big difference, I prefer to use the board to have a real tournament feeling, but most of the time I depend on an elctronic 2D board using online websites or chessbase. 

And sometimes when I play over the board, I feel like I do slightly better than when I play online.

Now some websites like chess.com and also chessbase prgoram they offer a 3D view, but of course it is not a real board.

From your exprience, have you noticed any difference? What do you think is better for your progress ?

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Do I notice a difference? Yes. And my conclusion was to work more with books and board and to watch fewer videos. Why that? Of course, I do stop the videos and make up my mind. But still, I feel that I do learn more (and can better concentrate) using a real board and writing down my solutions. However, this might be due to the way I grew up (born in 1971) and that my focus is OTB regular games (and not online blitz/rapid). 

The problem I find with a real board is I'm having to divert focus from the book or course to moving the pieces and that's disruptive. I also can't turn an engine on to check whether something made sense or was an error or to help answer questions why a certain move wasn't right here.

If you have lots of time and patience a board may be fine, but I prefer to use technology.

Standardisation of course ratings

I've noticed on the new (updated) Whitemood repertoire course it says for up to 2000 online rating (I believe the original was 1500). 2000 online rating where and what? Depending on the server 2000 at blitz could be anything from 1600 to 2000+ OTB. And the difference between blitz and long play on the same site could be 100s of points depending many factors.

Also if other courses (and GMs too) which (who) mention a rating could use the same rating that would be useful. Certainly mating matador so far is more 1400 than 2000 (though I expect it to get harder) and aside from a few of the trickier problems IMO the tactic ninja course was more up to 1800 and revision / practice for anyone else.

Perhaps better is to use some kind of level system, similar to Chessable. An easy system would be pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen and king.

So for example:

level 1 (pawn): I know the rules and can play, but not much more. I'm a beginner.

level 2 (knight): I know some checkmates, openings, tactics, and maybe basic pawn endings, but I still drop material frequently and really have no clue about positional chess. Once I'm out of the book, I'm all at sea. I'm a novice/rookie, lower level club player.

level 3 (bishop): I'm good at tactics and checkmating, I know a bit more opening and endgame theory, but I'll often drop material still at a critical moment. Positional play is a bit meh. I'm a reasonably experienced mid-level club player.

level 4 (rook): I rarely drop material, I know quite a bit, and positionally I'm reasonable. Perhaps I don't calculate accurately or quickly enough, or understand the typical plans and ideas from my openings. I can make life difficult for stronger players, even masters sometimes, but I'm not consistent enough. I'm a strong club player.

level 5 (queen): My play is all round good, and with a little bit of work, maybe coaching, I could play professionally if I chose to. I'm a candidate master

and maybe:
level 6 (king): I'm a professional player. I'm titled (FM and above) or if I could spend some time playing tournaments I'd get my FM probably this year.

Then perhaps we could say:
Mating matador:
Ideal: pawn, knight  ;  Fun/revision: bishop, rook

Tactic ninja:
Ideal: pawn, knight, bishop ; Fun/revision: rook

Happy pieces:
Ideal: bishop, rook ; Fun/revision: queen

and so on...

It's never going to be perfect and some players might fit in more than one category depending on the subject, but it has to be better than arbitrary rating bands which are very subjective especially when the only real common system is FIDE OTB which even then is not always indicative.

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One way you could present each course's level would be to have icons of the pieces in circles in black and colour the background to the level:

Red: Maybe too difficult, would suggest to look for an easier or more appropriate course first. If you give it a go, don't worry if you can't follow it yet.
Blue: Ideal for players typical of your level. Work through slowly, you'll probably learn a lot here.
Yellow: You might find much of the material easy or revision. However you'll enjoy some great examples and it might be good practice or revision. You probably can get through it all quickly if you chose to do so, though going more slowly will be more beneficial.
White: Probably too easy and below your level

Since colour blindness might be a factor for some, perhaps hovering the pointer could explain the key above.

Rossolimo Meier - Caruana 11... Nf8?!

In video 54, this game is covered, perhaps because of it being recent (then) and top players and similar to the previous lines with O-O, thus making it easier to refer to an already given plan.

However, instead of Nf8 here, 11... f5 appears to be a far better try (big difference in evaluation of almost a pawn) which makes sense because there is no king on g1 to aim at (which is the strength of Nf8 after O-O is played). After seeing this on the engine, I checked Ris' book and he 'agrees' that Nf8 in this game is not convincing and f5 should be played. He then covers 12. exf5?!, 12. Qe2 (Divalishvili-Silich 2020) and Qc1 (Mokshanov-Rakesh 2020). Both games appeared after the course was recorded, so maybe an update should be considered here. I guess if it wasn't an advanced section 11... Nf8 would be okay to implicitly suggest, but in an advanced section f5 should be considered for coverage instead unless there is a flaw there, given advanced is intended for 2000+ where opponents are able to make more of it.

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David, with all my respect, you keep doing the most common mistake that prevent chess lovers to improve their rating fast. It is: 
GOING DEEP INTO THE THEORY AND TRYING TO LEARN OPENINGS LIKE 2,600 GMs. 

A mindblowing suggestion for Chessmood

Hiii Chessmood

You can possibly create an opening repertoire for the above 2000 players.

With this, players will get many benefits, as well as your platform.

1) The platform will grow exponentially and players in turn will get an opening repertoire.

2) You could stream separately for the above 2000 players.

3) It will be easier for me to share and refer to your website with over 2000 players.

4) You can get many serious students and sponsors too!

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The current repertoire will go beyond 2000. Problem is master level repertoires in mainlines are a huge amount of work, theory changes regularly, and I suspect to be of use to professional players have to be somewhat individual.

The other problem is there are far fewer +2000 players than below so the audience is limited and thus the cost would have to mirror that to make it worthwhile. Most grandmaster level repertoires are bought by club players.

Mind-blowing? Sorry, but I cannot agree at all.

@Devansh_Shah

You have been a long time member of Chessmood but for your comment you missed completely the goal of it.

We are offering a repertoire that is suitable for tournament play and up to IM. Our GMs are using it online everyday and Avetik reached 2900 in Chess.com, Gabuzyan 3100 in Chess.com, fighting against other GMs.

So, be assured that if you and your friends learn and understand this repertoire, you will have a battle proven and practical repertoire.

In the Chessmood team our most recent IM just got the title by using Chessmood repertoire...

That said, one needs to work, spend many, many hours in order to master it... Are you ready to put the effort and time?

This is my not so mindblowing but my best suggestion for you: if you want a coherent, coordinated and tested repertoire in one stop just try this one.
Happy learning my friend!

I completely agree with Odysseus, but one small concern could be that the lines are not updated frequently.

The "mind blowing " title is a good attention grabber for sure.

I think I'll use something similar for my next question....

What is the best way to analyze rapid (10+5)

Hi everyone, I would ask you what is the best way to analyze radip game (10+5)! About Blitz I read the content in the blog and I'm totally agree but I think In the rapid we need a little bit deeping analiyses but at the same time we can't approach rapid as classic game!

What do you think about? what are your idea?

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https://chessmood.com/daily-puzzle/02.02.2022

I solve the puzzle till the last move in 1 go, but promoted to a Queen on the last move and it came back that this was wrong. redid it and promoted to a Bishop and this was right.

I don't under stand this as the Knight threat was checkmate and the Bishop would protect the squares the Knight could take BUT the Queen would to the same and would be stronger in the end game. So why is this wrong?

Thanks

Theo

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The queen controls f7 & f8 squares so it's stalemate after Nf3+ Qxf3 so you have to promote bishop

Thanks!!! didn't see that, just greedy ;-)

The best games of January, 2022, and the prizes

Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions! 
Welcome to the "Best games of January 2021" competition.
Under this post, we invite you to post the 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 December 2021:

Jay Garrison
Wenstin
Vladimir Bugayev
Khokan De
Aayush Shirodkar

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https://www.chess.com/game/live/35028072335

Amazing Game But i Lost

queen sacrifice and more

https://www.chess.com/game/live/35300289907

Played OTB rapid against FM yesterday with black, punished king that stuck in the middle

Scotch attack

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35323572541

Funny queen stuck in the middle of the board

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35359014531

Pawn storm attack

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35362028171

nice game

https://www.chess.com/game/live/35395681465

CM French attack

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35450232011

Caro can 

https://lichess.org/IvOVZ0Ce#43

Scandinavian defense

https://lichess.org/WzA5ew4o/black#0

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Played GM Harika Dronavalli in first round of Titled  Tuesday today. Perfect CM Pasini variation, not a single mistake. My best win on chess.com. Hope she is not going to report me :)

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35663172733

I play bullet very rare, in one of the game today played a very cool attack with black, chess.com even shows 3 brilliant moves ;0) with 96.8 accuracy

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/35675293453

https://lichess.org/oJEP5K04/white#0

Another prey killed by the Grand Prix! 

Typical sacrifice of the c2 pawn and later 12.f5! which made things very difficult for black. 

Wild opening

https://lichess.org/OpF4SemvBC2L

Crushing GP attacks

https://www.chess.com/live#g=35746142467

https://www.chess.com/game/live/36960717751 
 

French Bd3 turned into k-side sac

https://www.chess.com/live#g=36956562071 

Attacking in antisicilian from king to queen side

https://lichess.org/Y56hCEnq/white#55

a nice attack felt as if i was in the 19th Century

https://lichess.org/ImjJipYc

The last move

https://www.chess.com/live#g=35833251351

lichess.org/OBsXvOwgW8YK

https://lichess.org/SA3UiiD9

A complete demolition as I had the advantage from start to finish and later finished it of with a kingside attack.

Beat NM in the caro

https://www.chess.com/live/game/35953098809

Fun benko where my opponent tried to go all out attack but it didn’t work

https://www.chess.com/live/game/35754532775

My best King's Indian Game in my life (of course i hope i will play more but upto this day this is the best)

Never underestimate the power of fianchetto!! With a beautiful checkmate in 5 in the end!

https://lichess.org/fndfWv31Z5lB

 https://www.chess.com/live/game/36163167649

https://lichess.org/Y0JTByiv/white#56

This is a game that I played recently and is a add on to my other games that I sent. This game was simply a positional win as I crushed my opponent without him having a chance and not making a single mistake which is hard to do in a blitz game.

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/daily/379255149?tab=review

https://www.chess.com/live#g=36256212759

Super attack!

https://lichess.org/c1JhTZfE/white#61

Fianchetto bishop power!

https://lichess.org/cTsmlU08/black#41

https://lichess.org/h4Qdn7GDox9P

Not the best game but one of the best SLPs ever !

Pressure pressure pressure

https://www.chess.com/game/live/36515528415
 A chaotic game to say the least

Benko: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/36534110013

Scotch: https://lichess.org/J1TFpKjF878O

Positional squeeze in antisicilian

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/36539454571?tab=review

I won against NM with Nf6+!!!

https://lichess.org/ejOJLqJv/white

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/32426413275?tab=review

This is a game in which the chessmood opening courses really helped me.

Typical attack in Jobava line with cute finish

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12589506/

Won a game with Black! Played a5 first with idea of opening up the a file then played h5 with idea of opening h-file! won in the end with a DOUBLE SAC!

https://www.chess.com/game/live/37111802373

 quick game

played in an international online tournament

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/pgn/3YaVpMjVxa

 Accelerated Dragon(Opposite-side Castle Attack)

   "https://www.chess.com/game/live/35468792721"

Power Of Rooks
https://lichess.org/BQf4mU6QgIII

My first GP Attack game.
https://lichess.org/Vohe2KM1jOn4

https://www.chess.com/live#g=37317640499

Some tactics

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12607927/

Accelerated dragon along Chessmood preparation

https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/replay/12608633/

Fast win in antisicilian 

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/37330207581

Perfect beautiful game!!

https://lichess.org/O7dPXOZr/white

that's my best game of this month! Even stockfish goes crazy! Thanks chess mood for your Sicilian course that gave me the inspiration for this attack!

https://www.chess.com/game/live/37305008481

positional super game!!

https://lichess.org/lpmX8JhG/black#53

Strong move in Petroff 9.Nc5 Petroff

In the line in which we take advantage of c6 by going Bxc5 dxc5 Qf4 after Qa5 both a3 and Bd3 are suggested. There is another strong move 13.Bc4 with the idea to put pressure on f7 next move with Ng5 or perhaps Ne5. The critical line seems to be b5 but we can ignore his threat because after Ne5 not only are we attacking f7 but c6 and after bxc4 Nc6 attacking the queen and bishop Qxa2 Nxe7 Kh8 he wants Qa1 forcing our king to go into the center we have a strong move h5 wanting to go h6 and threaten mate and also threatening a cool move Ng6 to take advantage of the pin and the h file. if Qa1 Kd2 keeping brave Rd8 and Ke2 and the checks have ended and the position is crushing combining the back rank  with Nc6 ideas we will win material. If 14 Bf6 we have a forcing line take everything on f7 and g4 normally the material imbalance wouldn't necessarily be favorable but his king is so weak and g5 is a huge threat the rook on h1 will come into play via e1 and we have a crushing attack 

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I think the lines recommended are perhaps more practical though