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Daily puzzle

Hello

Just a question, after a month in chessmood, doing and mistaken mostly daily puzzle, I was able to solve last 3 days in a row, quite happy :-) , this is because learning or they are easier ?

Have a great week, 

Best Regards

Marc

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No success is immediate

It is the result of hardwork, dedication and patience

Your every bit of hardwork has paid off

But remember, there's more to achieve and always be humble after achieving greatness because it will lead to more success

Keep achieving great heights

All the best

#COGRO#

Hey Marc! 
Yeah exactly :) 
After doing such training period, our mind starts to work in another way, it becomes more creative. 
All Grandamsters who solve such studies first time, on a study that they would spend 15 minutes at the beginning, after 20 hours of solving such puzzles, they can start to solve in 1-2 minutes. 
I've solved in my life around 20.000 such studies. 
At first it was not easy, but then I was solving them a few minutes, sometimes in a few seconds. 

Keep the COGRO! 

Last week I have solved 4 correct puzzles and I only need 2min thinking.

Najdorf Course by GM Gabuzyan

I play the Najdorf with black. I just saw that GM Gabuzyan had made a course on Najdorf but I am not able to find it. Is there a way in which I can access that course? It would be great if I could access that. 

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You can open a new tab and search for Chessmood Najdorf and it will be the first thing popping up

I hope I have answered your question

Chessmood Black Repertoire against 1.e4 2.Nc3

Hi,

In Chessmood Repertoire, against 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3, it is recommended 2...d6. Would it be possible to have some lines with 2...Nc6, more aligned to Accelerated Dragon?

Thank you very much

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Hi Sergio, the course crushing the sicilian sidelines will be recontructed and the main move for us eill be 2. Nc6, and in  the course accelerated dragon there will be added lines players of our level are facing most. In the Rossolimo course early castling 5. O-O will be also added.

Hey guys! 
GM Gabuzyan is working on it. 

Alekhine Defense

Many players are playing

e4 nf6

e5 nd5

d4 d6 

nf3 dxe5

Nxe5 c6

in blitz

Almost 3/4 players have played against me

How to react?

Can you please make a video on this

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I think a good continuation is: 6. Be2 Nd7 7. c4 Nxe5 8. dxe5 Nb6 9. Qxd8+ Kxd8 10. Be3 Be6 11. Nd2 Kc7 12. f4 g6 and this is a more or less equal and playable endgame. Correct me if I am wrong somewhere.

Bryan Tillis has made a course on chessable recommending this line. I played Bryan in lichess with white in a few blitz games some days ago.  The opening clearly did not go well for me in both the games. Also an IM played this line with me in a few games 

It'll be in the upcoming sections. 

The new course - "Happy pieces"

Hello ChessMood Family! Hello Champions! 

I've good news for you!
As I promised earlier, soon we are going to upload many new courses related to the middlegame and endgame.

The new one - "Happy Pieces" is uploaded.  
https://chessmood.com/course/happy-chess-pieces-the-art-of-keeping-your-chess-army-happy  

This gonna be one of the most important courses you've ever watched about chess.

Enjoy the first part. The rest is coming!

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Thank you Coach!!!

Amazing course! Thank you so much for creating it. Looking forward to the continuation

I was searching for such a course for a long time! Thanks!

Waiting for the rest to come,thanks for the amazing course.

Hi

I like the course very much. I think the placement of pieces on squars that make them happy is fundamental for understanding of the chess. 

Champions, 2 more sections are added! 
https://chessmood.com/course/happy-chess-pieces-the-art-of-keeping-your-chess-army-happy 

Sections 6 and 7! Enjoy :) 

beautiful course, love it

Another success

One of our first ChessMood PRO Members - Nicolo Pasini, when he joined us he was around 2200. 
Yesterday he made his first IM norm! :) 
Most probably no one have seen better than me, how hard he worked. 
Very well deserved, Nicolo! 
Congratulations! 

#Success is not an event, it's a process.

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Chess mood is gonna rock the field!!

How IM Norm? OTB Tmts are back on?

congrats to @Nicolo_Pasini and I hope soon you will achieve all three IMs norms so we will call you IM @Nicolo_Pasini. Rating will come behind you hehehe.

The power of ChessMood openings

Hello ChessMood family! 

I've decided to show you the power of ChessMood openings and we've created a playlist on our Youtube channel "The power of ChessMood openings", where we're going to upload model games with our ChessMood openings, whether played by one of our Grandmasters or ChessMood family members, or you :) 

The first game - how to play against Modern Pirc is uploaded. 
https://youtu.be/vEZWHjMiMs8

Enjoy :) 

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French Defense , Kf2!!

E4 E6

D4 D5

Nd2 Nf6

E5 Nd7

F4 c5

C3 Nc6 

Ndf3! Qb6

G3 cxd4 

Cxd4 Bb4+

Kf2!!

How is this line

I have played in numerous games

The opponent gets a shock whenever I play Kf2

Then my plan is Bb1, Qc2/d3, h4, g4 and attack

I had many successful attacks in this line

Black players are often confused how to react

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It's a very big line. 
Black goes right away g5! or f6 then g5! Crushing the center. 

French Defense

In French defense course,section 1, at 15:09 minutes bg6 is shown as winning move , but is a losing move shown by engines

Before this move, evaluation is +5 and after Bg6, it goes to -5

Black wins after Nxe5

Hopefully, I am right 

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Actually my engine is showing Qg6 instead of Bg6 as winning (+9.60) at depth 33

+250 points in 3 months!

One of our ChessMood PRO Members, Moemedi, raised 250 points in 3 months! 
He started with 1960 and got to 2207 now! 

The secret?! 
He just followed the study plan we have set up with him during the 1-1 call when he joined us and he kept working hard. 

Success is not an event, it's a process. 

P.S 
Soon I'm going to make an interview with him. 
If you have any questions, you can add it in the comments. 

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Congrats to @Moemedi_Machobane

Wow

super!!

Thank you very much Coach, i am pleased to learn from you and the whole of Chessmood team!!

Antisicilian 7....Ng4

Hi, all! I want to ask a question about the Antisicilian course of our white repertoire. There is a line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Qa4 d6 7.e5 Ng4 8.Bf4 Bg7 9.exd6 0-0 10.Be2 exd6, where white stands better. But what about the more ambitious 10...e5 with following Qxd6? Is there any advantage for white?

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Even I faced the same line with e5 instead of ed6

Hi Martin! With e5 Black closes their g7 bishop, weakens the d6 square and loses tempos.
You just go 11.Bg5 or Bg3, and then after Qd6 Rd1!  

If you want to play more principal 10.Bb5! is the engine's first line with big adv. 

Positional sacrifices and attacking chess and random Questions

Often we hear that

I was winning but missed it as the lines were too complicated

Or I wanted to sacrifice an exchange but felt hesitation

Or I am in constant time pressure

Or I missed that intermediate move in between in my calculations

Or my opponent devaites me out of the theory

Or my opponent was well prepared, how do I even fight

How to counter these real life situations?

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1. I think person is suffering from lack of vision or he is scared to sack. So he is playing chess with fear. He must have to keep in mind that chess is a war game so like in real war people sac their life to save their nation of win against enemy's army so same in chess. By sac, you can may be expose his king or make weaknesses in his camp. So he must get rid out of fearful attitude. For this purpose I strongly recommends to learn Essential Chess Sacrifices so he will become familiar with more sacrificial patterns and after that I want him to check out games of Tal so he will learn more about initiative.

2. I seriously have no experience at above 1600 level so I can share the idea of why below 1600 players are coming under pressure. First reason is lack of knowledge of openings ideas. Without knowing openings they start thinking from the very first move in the game. Due to that they spent more than 25-30 mins in opening phase. Normally this happened to my opponent. Because whenever I play I prepare my openings and my opponents face issues. Second point is lack of knowing basics of planning. For example if the position  has Carlsbad Structure then they do not know the ABC  of minority attack and then they face issues in finding plans.  Lack of knowledge of basic endgames. I saw some people calculating even in basic king and pawn endgame positions. They also do not work on tactical patterns so their speed of calculating and feeling of patterns is super slow. So in the end they face time pressure.

3.  The third question can be answered by good players than me.

4.  If your opponent is out of theory and you are unable to find plans or deliver mate then its clear that you have lack of knowledge of classics. Openings and middlegames ideas are well defined so if anyone below 2000 elo violate them then most of the time they will lose the game without any efforts so work on classics and your this problem will be solved. For example after I started watching all chessmood streams I am winning almost all games in which my opponent violates basics and especially if the King in the Center then it's nightmare. 

5. For this purpose check out games of Top Level . Don't miss commentary of top events. Once you will start watching top events you will see how elite players handle Strong Novelties and what are their reactions. For me Saint Louis Grand Chess Tour helped me a lot in understanding how to play against a well prepared opponents.

I do not say my answer are right. But this is what I feel about questions. I am excited what our mentors will add in comments as answers.

White's Antisicilian 2.Nc3 part 1. 2...d6. 10. ...d5 11. e5

Maestro Avetik, in this variation (1. e4 c5, 2. Nc3 d6, 3. f4 Nc6, 4. Nf3 g6, 5. Bc4 g6, 6. 0-0 e6, 7.d4 cxd4, 8. Nb5 Nge7, 9. Bb3! 0-0, 10. Nbxd4 d5, 11. e5) you mention in the course that White is better is this favorable "French structure with a bad Black bishop on g7). I was wondering, what if Black immediately plays ...f7-f6 undermining White's center. Would that be playable for them?

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Hey Ramon! 
Then e6 gonna be a serious weakness :) 

Endgame courses

ChessMood Family! 
I've started to record endgame courses! This month we're planning to upload 5 ones! 
Stay tuned :) 

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Hurray. First you made me Tal by showing many attacking games in streams and in openings and middlegame courses. Now you will make me Capablanca hehheeeh,

Thanks master. I am so excited to see your amazing courses in which ideas will come in my mind like chess is so simple

Great. We are waiting:).

Thank you maestro, this is wonderful news!

Pawn Endgames [Step-by-step]

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I am not so good in the endgames so I hope this course will help me a lot!! I have very good results with classic games, my favourite course.

Openings

Sir, I would be very grateful to you if you can make e4 e5 for black as many players don't have the time to study Sicilian lines and remember them

And many players do play e4 e5 so it might benefit a lot of players and I am sure that many people will like these courses on your platform

Hoping for a positive reply

Thank you

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I think, that an complete e5 repertoire, needs way more time to study, as there are more "correct" tries for white, and a lot more serious gambits. 

Jan Gustafssons e5 repertoire for example is about 26 hours, and very complicated

I think it is very difficult for a chess player to remember all lines and solid systems against Italian, Ruy Lopez, Scotch, or against all openings which we are learning to play against. 1. ... e5 is the most solid time, but 1. e4 c5 is the most aggresive try. And this is proved as I don't always opt for Accelerated dragon and go for Najdorf or Taimanov.

Hi Devansah

Chess Mood opening with 1.e4 e5 is Scotch opening!

This Scotch is a mighty fine opening. Do you play it? Have you done the Chess Mood Scotch course?

If you have not done it-then do this Scotch course! Then you can study the Ruy Lopez and Italian openings by your own account as I do. If you need specific opening help with Ruy Lopez or Italian openings just ask in a post in forum, as many here can play these openings too (even coach GM Avetik Grigoryan I believe! LOL)  ;-)

I hope this helps a little. Goodluck and best wishes and play the Scotch now! Right Mood Right Move COGRO!

Devansh, 1.e4 e5 is not shorter than Sicilian. 
The philiosophy of ChessMood courses- we keep 1 strong opening repertoire and stream it all the time, so you learn it very fast. 

Queen in the attack

Dear PRO team, 

We've added one-hour material in the course "Happy Pieces" 
https://chessmood.com/course/happy-chess-pieces-the-art-of-keeping-your-chess-army-happy  

It's updated with the section queen in the attack. 
Enjoy :) 
#COGRO

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Super!

Thanks for this course it gave me 50 points

Sir in the 56th video Ahues versus Alekhine  video timing 4 minute 31 second for Qf1 black has Nb2 with checkmate instead of taking Rf1

From 1200 to 2500 in 5 years

https://youtu.be/kSmYnayXpzs  

Check out this interview with one of the youngest GMs of India - Prithu Gupta. 
You'll take a lot from it.  
Myself, I'm very proud to have such a student and big thanks to Sagar Shah, for bringing all this. 

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Sir, When you will you come and stream with sagar shah in chessbase india?

Nice. Very nice.

I do hope you are also proud of all your chess students and not just the most successful ones! I know you are really, even though you find it harder to show that always!  COGRO coach! :-)

Chess

Can I play with one of the chessmood Grand Masters on lichess?

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Ηello Mosa, I am a PRO member and sometimes GM Avetik Grigoryan runs a simul where we can participate. If you are considering PRO membership, you will have it. You can also follow the GMs and challenge them; GM Zaven accepted my challenge once.

Well, also at chess.com for ChessMood members, there is a 3/0 blitz tourney for Chess Mood members every Sunday night and occasionally some of the GM's have played (although I have not seen them there recently there are 2400-2500+ players). Hope this information might help! I find GM Avetik doesn't want to play me as he is scared I will smash him! LOL-kidding! COGRO!

Confusion in Petroff

Am I missing something? Coach the idea you suggested with gxf3 was also cool but in the video you said Qxh6 is a mistake but acc to normal engine it's winning for white.

Check out the pic

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I checked it with my engines, both seems super winning

Strange :)
Can you please send me the link of the video and tell me the minute? 

Got it! :) 
Yeah you're right. 
Both wins, Qh6 and gf3. 
But if you say Qh6 is super winning, try without checking what engine offers, find yourself how to win it :)