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• . I am currently working on 3 classics book with 2 training partner and I am glad they are super serious about learning and improving their skills to the next level and everyday they are thirsty to learn something new and grasp new ideas. I want to work on books which I shared in the bottom of  For improving positional skills and Endgame If you have burning desire and are serious about learning something new from classics analysis then don't miss to join my study training. But I hate excuses, yeah if they are genuine then it's ok. I don't wanna lazy partner. Only serious and strong players can contact me. The reason behind joining strong player so that I can also learn from them. Another thing is that I just started working on analysis of classics so I need supportive partner who can help me to see the lines well.

  About me:

  I am Abhishek Yadav. I am an Indian. I have 1465 FIDE rating and online is around 2100 on lichess new account and old account had 2180. I have burning desire to learn something that's why I am here to learn from Chessmood Family. Hope to see you soon!

  Right now I am working on:

  1) Morphy Move by Move book with Devansh

  2) Petrosian Move by Move with Devansh.

  3) Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings” by Irving Chernev  with Jay Garrison
  

  For improving positional skills and Endgame

Rubinstein’s Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games” by Hans Kmoch

Grandmaster Chess Strategy: What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson’s Positional Masterpieces”by Jurgen Kaufeld and Guido Kern

Anatoly Karpov’s Best Games by Anatoly Karpov

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Benko Gambit Main Line

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5452841427

Where I made mistake? I could not figure it out.I think I almost played opening correctly and even the plans. Can anyone help me out?

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I didn’t look at the whole game but 39 . . . c4 looks like you just blundered the pawn.  Maybe Rc8 first and then c4.  Rooks belong behind passed pawns! :-)

I think 16.... not Ne5 because the knight very important for black maybe 16... c4 idea Nc5 andthen black have idea to play Nd3

I agree with Sengon. c4 Nc5 looks good! 
Mainly in Benko's position, if after c4 White can't play Nd4 with Nc6, c4 with idea Nc5 becomes strong. 

Later in the endgame, starting from move 22, the typical move is f5!  - weakening the d5 pawn or e4. 

Caruana joined ChessMood

Yesterday Caruana played 5.g4! - Pasini variation - a very rare one, which we recently added in the Modern Pirc course. 

https://chessmood.com/course/modern-pirc 

He did all the ideas in the game, shown in the course... 

Now I'm thinking, is he a secret PRO Member of ChessMood? :) Are any of his coaches secret ChessMood PRO Members? :) 

Or is it just a coincidence?  
What do you think? :) 

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I think it's possible he could be a member, or more likely one of his seconds. Whatever the truth is one thing is for certain, Caruana's adoption of our g4 plan confirms how powerful the variation is, as even by elite standards  Caruana is considered a monster theoretician.

Very cool indeed.

Partner to play Scotch

Good Morning

I just learned Scotch repertoire and look for a training partner.

I am 1500 FIDE, about 1800 Lichess Classic, living in Uruguay (UTC-3).

If somebody is interesed, let me know.

Best Regards

Marc

keep COGRO !!!

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abhi_mary_1997 lichess 

FB https://www.facebook.com/abhishekyadavchess1997/

add me for better conversation and training 

Hey i just learnt scotch also

Buffyslayer_openings on lichess. Add me to practice training 

Crazy KID

As you know guys I am working on KID pawn formations so today my training partner Devansh Shah showed me this game for fun and I was like what? Super complex KID.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1800188

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sicilian najdorf tips

any tips for black in sicilian najdorf?

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e3 Benko question. (5. ...e6 seems to have some problems)

I really wanted to try 5. ...e6 against the e3 Benko line but I ran into some issues due to the same e4 ideas as the ones Avetik presented in the Blumenfeld countergambit comparison. Could you please take a look at the pgn below and let me know what you think?

[Event "Black opening prep: Chapter 1"]

[Site "https://lichess.org/study/WOCjf67D/JSlcLMLX"]

[Result "*"]

[UTCDate "2020.09.15"]

[UTCTime "20:36:33"]

[Variant "Standard"]

[ECO "A57"]

[Opening "Benko Gambit Accepted, Modern Variation"]

[Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/liszt85"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. e3 e6 6. dxe6 fxe6 7. Nc3 (7. Nf3 d5 8. Nc3 Bd6 { What Avetik played in his blitz game. } 9. Be2 { was the move played in the blitz game that Avetik played but } (9. e4 { is far more challenging. So 8. ...Bd6 is likely to be wrong. } 9... dxe4 10. Ng5 O-O 11. Be3 $16 { [%cal Gf1c4] }) 9... O-O 10. O-O Bb7 11. bxa6 (11. a4 { Bhakti, Kulkarni - Holm, Kristian Stuvik, 1-0, Budapest FS05 IM, 2011, https://lichess.org/SEvmD3FI } 11... axb5 12. Nxb5 { and white is more than comfortable here. } { [%csl Gd6] } 12... Be7 13. b3 { [%cal Gc1b2] }) 11... Nxa6 { Kazakovskiy, Valeriy - Kovalev, Vl, 0-1, 84th ch-BLR 2018, https://lichess.org/KiGZLIWY } { This was also how Avetik's game went. }) 7... d5 8. Nf3 *

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Hey Vishnu! 
Good question. This problem was posted by our PRO Member Nicolo. 
As we said earlier in the posts, now we're re-recording the Benko Gambit course. 

Beginner French questions

Hello, 

I am a low intermediate player, not sure my otb rating at this point tend to be around 1500 online. 

I like playing the French defense, but I frequently get opponents that play slightly unusual or inaccurate move orders. 

The one if face most often is 1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 which usually goes into exchange French 

and another is 1. e4 e6 2. e5 which usually transposes into advance variation. I was wondering if there is anything to do against these weird move orders to spice things up a bit. 

I get tired of playing the exchange so I could transpose into a Sicilian in the first example but don’t play that opening, so I’m not sure what variation that would be called. 

Thanks

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If you want to play the French and play for a win, you need to deal with the Exchange Variation.  After all, white can play it on  move 3 no matter what.  

Yeah, i see that the exchange variation is drawish.But if our opponent wants a draw, they will  fight for a draw so they won't play aggressive move.If you want to win, there are some rules

-Castle in the opposite side of the white king

-Try to exchange their light square bishop via f5

-Play f6 to cover e5, then follow with g5,h5 and a pawn storm

I would buy giris french course, it is super sound and covers more or less everything

How to practice CHESS STRATEGY?

How to practice CHESS STRATEGY in best way?

Thank's a lot.

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Daily Puzzle link in page footer

The daily puzzle links to an old puzzle - https://chessmood.com/daily-puzzle/17.09.2020

It'd be great if you'd fix it so I could get my daily fix with just one click!  By the way, I finally solved one today.

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Doubt

will all the courses which are only for PRO would be eligible to be bought by Moodcoins in the Near future?

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Yes, it is! 

Can We Buy Membership With Mood Coins

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how to play against caro cann

how to play against caro cann defense ? 

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There is a course for white against the Caro kann with exchange variation

It's a very reliable and practical way to gain the upper hand

Yes @Devansh_Shah is right. But I also suggest that after watching the course then try to work on Carlsbad pawn formation. White gets better Carlsbad in this Caro Kann Exchange Variation.  So I strongly suggest to learn Carlsbad ideas if you wanna master caro exchange ideas in depth!!!

If you are a pro member tou can access the course or if not I suggest you to buy it with moodcoins. I have completed the course and now I am playing 2 result games against the Carro Kan.

I definitely recommend the Advance Variation with Shirov’s g4! I believe it is perfect for dynamic and modern chess player.If you wanted to learn this variation, I will give you some tips and typical ideas, but it is a bit long to write everything here.You can email me at banhgiahuy2009@gmail.com or message me in chess.com(my account is banhgiahuy2606.Skype is possible with that email, too

Tactics from day 2 of FIDE olympiad 2020

Yesterday I have posted tactics from day 1 olympiad.

Here you will get tactics from day 2 of fide olympiad - https://bit.ly/32fX3Bt

if you haven't checked day 1 yet - https://bit.ly/3aRDrHR

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Thanks!

Today 11/8/2020 Puzzle

after 1.Bf5 h1Q 2.c8R+ Bc8 3.Be4+ Qe4 Stalemate or after Bb7 Bh8 and then wrong side rook passed pawn so it should be a draw but after 2.c8R the position shows wrong to me but in the 2nd time after 2.c8Q it shows me correct,but both are drawing.

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I totally agree!!!

https://imgur.com/a/7roDnGq

Where are my Moodcoins!!!

Haha :))) 
Are you serious guys? :) 
You want us to spend time on development, so you don't trick the system, or we concentrate on producing more courses. 
We created this puzzles to help you to keep your head fresh, and not try to find bugs in the system. 
I hope this was just a joke))) 

Idea: Events on Weekends

Hey there :) 

Was wondering if events on weekends is something that could happen in the future?

The reason behind it: I have a full time job and can't join the events live on weekdays because I am usually at home around 6-7pm (events start at 5pm my time). Maybe other chessmood pro members have the same problem.

All the best!

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Hi, welcome to Chessmood, you can still watch the recordings of all the pro members events. If you have any questions about any position which you cant understand during you see recordings then let us know. Thanks

Hi Jonas! 
For sure. 
As much our ChessMood Family grows, we'll be able to reinvest in ChessMood more, hiring more GMs and to add more events. 

Starter course: Winning with white - pgn file?

Would it be possible to add a supporting pgn file to the this course?

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Hey Petter. 
We'll add after we finish the start course, which is still under construction. 

What Benko Gambit can do for you

Hi family! I just wanted to share my experience:

Last night, in a online 15+10 game, I voluntarily accepted isolated double pawns on b column with white after a Queen's Gambit. It was not as in some London lines with black when you let him exchange Queens on b6, because you can advance your b pawn and it is not a weakness. I accepted the weaknesses of the b2 and b3 pawns and b4 square, because I was confident I would make proper use of a and c colums (he had played b6, so a7 and c7 were backward paws.

The point is that a few months ago I would not have allowed isolated doubled pawns under any circumstance, but Benko Gambit has made me feel more comfortable using open lines.

Go Chesmood Openings!

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Ole, ole, ole.... !!! 

The Golden Question

Another wisdom gem , reinforced by Avetik....Thank you!

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Thank you, Ovi! 

Only BLIND CHESS to improve Chess Calculation?

Only BLIND CHESS to improve Chess Calculation?

Any other good technic method to improve our calculation skill significantly?

Thank you for solution. 

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Heri, of course not. 
Blind chess is just for improving visualisation. 
There are many different calculation techniques. 
In the future, we're going to add a course, but it's gonna be only after the course "Tactical Mastery"

Middle Game and End Game Course Order

ChessMood is offering middle game and end game courses. Is there a best order for studying these? Thanks.

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I think first of all if u are below 2000 then work on middlegame courses first. 

1. Watch daily 1 classical commented game.

2. Watch 2-3 videos on happy pieces or rest is up to you.

Once you will finish middlegames then work on endgames because right now chessmood is making contents for beginners so it will take some time for the intermediate endgame courses so in this mean time better work on middlegames and chessmood openings and streams.

Hey Tom! Not really. 
You're new in ChessMood right? If you haven't a 1-1 call with a GM yet, feel free to reserve a call and get a personalized study plan.