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Accelerated Dragon section 2, clip 6 8. Nb3

Maestro Avetik, here you comment that the position is an English opening with a tempo down for Black. I don't understand that, there's a white pawn still on c2. Or did you mean an English opening with colors reversed? Could you please explain this, because I am not very familiar with the English opening.

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Hey Ramon! 
Yeah, I mean the 2nd. 
And as I said earlier, now we're re-recording the course, adding all the missing or changing the confusing stuff. 

Quiz to classical commented games

Hi Chessmood family!I would like to suggest its possible that we can have the answer in each puzzle given? 

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Rod, what do you mean? 

Attack Against Caro-Kann

Dear GM Avetik sir,

I have a question in the following variation.

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.Bf4 Bg4 7.Qb3 Qd7 8.Nd2 e6 9.Ngf3 Bxf3 10.Nxf3 Bd6 11.Bxd6 Qxd6 12.O-O O-O 13.Rae1 Rab8

How to continue? ...because now our idea of Bxh7 or Nxg4 is no more and Black's minority attack ...b5-b4 is coming fast.

Note:- In your course 12...Rab8 is discussed in Section 2. But the difference is in that variation, Black has not traded his Bishop with f3-Knight.

Please guide... 

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Hey Jay! 
You play 14.Ne5! with idea f4. 
And now if Black goes 14...b5 you take 15.Bb5! 
I offer you try to see the difference between this line and when there was a Bg4. 
Why we can take here 15.Bb5 and before we couldn't? :) 

Trampowsky line after our Bc7, Qd6 plan in Nge2 variation

Sir, what should be black's plan after g3 by white to protect the h2 square?
I've faced this move very often and couldn't think of an effective plan to break the weakened king-side pawn structure, sometimes I sacrificed the knight on g3, it worked half of the time.

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Vanshaj, g3 is weakening too much. You can push h5,h4 as well. 

I won using the Latvian gambit

Eu ganhei usando o gambito letão 

[Evento "Jogo rápido avaliado"] [Site "https://lichess.org/6rMn8gwg"] [Data "2020.08.29"] [Branco "AmandaKetley"] [Black "MagicIrair"] [Resultado "0-1"] [UTCDate "2020.08.29"] [UTCTime "00:15:56"] [WhiteElo "1881"] [BlackElo "1749"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-8"] [BlackRatingDiff "+10"] [Variante "Padrão"] [TimeControl "900 + 10"] [ECO "C40"] [Abrindo "Gambito da Letônia: Defesa Fraser"] [Rescisão "Normal"] [Anotador "lichess.org"] 1. e4 e5 2. Cf3 f5 3. Cxe5 Cc6 {C40 Gambito letão: Defesa Fraser} 4. Qh5 + g6 5. Cxg6 Cf6 6. Qxf5 d6 7. Qg5 Tg8 8. Bd3 Rxg6 9. Qe3 Bh6 10. f4 Cg4 11. Qf3 Nd4 12. Qf1 Qe7 13. Nc3 Be6 14. f5 Nxf5 15. Qe2 Nd4 16. Qf1 OOO 17. Kd1 Rf8 18. Qg1 Nf2 + 19. Re1 Nxd3 + 20. cxd3 Nf3 + 21. gxf3 Rxg1 + 22. Rxg1 Qh4 + 23. Kd1 Qx2 24. Tf1 Bh3 25. Te1 Txf3 {Branco desiste. } 0-1

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Unusual chess puzzle (99% player don't know this)

In this puzzle white have king and 3 pawns and black have only king. You have to arrange position which is forced draw. Following are certain conditions for this puzzles.

1-Arranged position will be white to play
2-White will play for win
3-No double or triple pawns are allowed (for e.g. a2,a3 or b5,b6,b7)

post your answers here
Answer will be published tomarrow on same forum

If you cant wait to see answer then you can see the answer here - bit.ly/3gEE48N

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I can imagine that this puzzle is very hard to solve manually, but the result is quite interesting. I brute-force checked all the possible KPPPvK setups from a tablebase with a script and there are 4 different solutions, but due to symmetry there are essentially only 2. Furthermore the pawn structure is the same in both, only the position of the Black kings is different. Here are the FEN codes:

8/8/6Pk/4P3/8/7P/8/7K w - - 0 1
8/8/kP6/3P4/8/P7/8/K7 w - - 0 1
8/6k1/6P1/4P3/8/7P/8/7K w - - 0 1
8/1k6/1P6/3P4/8/P7/8/K7 w - - 0 1

What is the puzzles answer?

Below are some puzzles... Solve them...Both are white to play

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1.Simply Play Rg5 and win

2.Rg8+ and bring the Knight to 1st rank and win.

Interactive lesson - The logic of the openings

Hey guys! 
If you have problems with the "Join event" link, here is the link to the lesson. 
https://youtu.be/kLO3DObOG-Y 

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cool

Crazy or Genius?

Very interesting but white opening like this seems extremely dangerous.

https://www.facebook.com/374333479894337/posts/622994801694869/?vh=e&extid=UYynwAw5u6Hx9SYF

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Hi Brad,

Nice game by Marshall, I did not know about this one. It was fun to watch it, but yes, Black did not play the best moves I think...

Some Advices About Weekly Tournaments

Hi GM Avetik.I have some advices about weekly tournaments:

1.Time control should be 5+3

2.Tournaments should be swiss.So we can play chess.In arena tournaments win streak is more important than number of matches won

3.Also 5+3 a little bit long.So tournaments can be start at 9 AM PST time.

4.Number of rounds can be 9

I think tournaments will be more fun if rules are look above.Also you can add more advices at comments

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Agreed!

I live in India and when the tmt starts, It's already like 11:30 PM! I sleep at 10:30 so I can't play... Can you make it like 1-2 hrs earlier and Swiss so that it's not to long?

Where we can find Chess Mood weekly tournament information?

Visualization

Hello everyone

I am practicing visualization from 1 week

I think I can see the board clearly

I have seen 71 move games also with accuracy of 90%

I can also see the diagonals

What step should I take next to improve it?

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I have been playing 1-2 blindfold games daily against Ahbi to help with visualization. Not only am I seeing the whole board and where the pieces are in my head, I am also getting much better at calculating variations accurately even with out seeing the position on the board. 

Questions about new courses or updates

Hi GM Avetik, I have a few questions or suggestions about new courses,updates.

I will not ask about the extension of the course against 1.c4, because you have already answered that it will appear soon. Same as 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 for black in the accelerated dragon variant.
However, I have some suggestions for the further development of chessmood:
1. Course for white against 1.e4 Nc6
2. Course for white against 1.e4 b6
3. Course for black against Bird opening 1.f4.
4. Update in Sicilian defense for black against gambit 1.e4 c5 2.a3 Nc6 3.b4.
5. Update in French defense against variant 1.e4 e6 2.d4 b6 and maybe even against 1.e4 e6 2.d4 c5
6. Scotch Game update against variant 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Ne4. I had one batch in this variant and Stockfish is proposing Nd2 here, I think it would be worth mentioning something like that.

Question 1: Will there be an alternative odds for Black against 1.e4? You mentioned that you played the French defense for a long time so maybe this is an idea?

What do you think?

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Good suggestions on the whole, but I think French is difficult to learn for black as it has many good variatioan for white, classic, Tarasch, advance, Schlechter, black can also play Rubinstein variation and the stuff is way too big to remember. I prefer Sicilian accelerated dragon, sometimes in rapid or blitz play Najdorf and Schevenningen with good results overall.

Against Bird opening I play 1. f4 d5 2. e3 c5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. b3 Nf6 5. Bb2 g6 fianchetto variation in reversed dutch. Stonewall I believe it is good but does not appeal to my playing style. I recently played the above variation in Bord opening theme on lichess and beat opponents whose rtg was 1900. If 1. f4 d5 2. e3 c5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bb5 I offer here Bd7 with O-O-O plan.

Against French variations 1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 and 1. e4 e6 2. d4 b6 I play 1. e4 e6 2. d4 ... 3. Bd3 and then 4. Ne2 and not 4. Nf3 as GM Avetik explained in the courses, with good results overall.

Hi,

Against Bird I play: 1. f4 g6 2. Nf3 d5 3.e3 Bg7 4. Be2 Nh6 5. O-O O-O

or

1. f4 g6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 Nf6 5. O-O O-O

Against Wing gambit 2.a3 I play 1.e4 c5 2.a3 g6 3.b4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d6 5.Nf3 Nc6

About new openings against 1.e4 I think the philosophy of this site/family is not having a wide choice of openings, but having a few selected openings that allow us to grow our chess. Streams, webinars will focus on these openings. I prefer to be an "expert" in one opening than having shallow knowledge of several openings. So I think it is better to keep updating the current openings with advanced content, commented games, and typical mistakes than introducing new openings. Just my opinion.

Super-Sharp Advance variation

Hello! What do you think about the super-sharp Advance variation of the Caro-Kahn? After 1.e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3? What are white’s typical moves here?

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theoretically it seems to be perfectly fine for black, practically it is dangerous for both. If you are good in tactics, and analyse the arazing positions, than go for it

It is the most aggressive line in Caro-Kann, advance variation.

Aggressive players, including Anand, Shirov, and Kasparov have played it, not because it gives advantage to White; These aggressive players search fish in muddy water.  Caro-Kann is very sound and reliable. This line is dangerous for both sides. If you play it against a well prepared strong defensive Caro-Kann player, you are taking a lot of risk! In most cases Black ends up with better pawn structure.

Some continuations for White: (Black is OK in all of them)

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.Be3 h5 8.dxc5 hxg4 9.Nd4 Nh6

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.h4 h5 8.Nf4 Bh7 9.Nxh5 Nc6 10.dxc5 Bxc5

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.h4 h5 8.Nf4 Bh7 9.g5 cxd4

Suggestion for Webinars

Due to a demanding job, I cannot attend most of live events, but I like to watch the recordings in the evenings. It is a pity, because I miss the interactive part that is very important, but I will go straight to the point:

Currently, we have:

- Insightful Chessmood selected opening courses with continuous updates

- Invaluable Classic games analyzed by a GM in depth

- Unique "Happy pieces" positional course

- Step by Step Endgame Course (in inception, but growing )

- Streams with the Chessmood opening played by a GM

- Webinars to review common mistakes in the openings

- Great Interactive lessons with GM

- Simul games with GM

- Other events

MY SUGGESTION:

During the Streams of blitz games (for example, the "From 1600 to 2400" series), I feel I miss a lot of things that are happening in the games and the GM has no time to explain it properly. However, the blitz game included in the Advanced section of the Rossolimo course (Ma3eledonia vs Avetik) is superbly analyzed and commented and it has seemed really interesting and instructive to me.

My suggestion would be to create a periodic webinar where GM Avetik analyzes and comments in depth the more interesting games played by him with Chessmood Openings.

Just my two pence ;-)

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Hey Sergio! 
Thank you very much for all good words and suggestion. 
I have thought about that and I think you'll like my ideas. 
After each course, I'm going to add 2 section. Model games - where I'm going to comment the most instructive games played by me, you, any of our ChessMood Family members. 

And the section "Typical mistakes" where I'm going to show typical mistakes that our team is doing. 
How's that? :) 

Can you guess it? :)

We just launched a new course :) 
Can you guess the name without watching in chessmood.com/courses ? :) 

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Left to right:Paul Morphy, Mikhail Tal,Alexander Alekhine

benko gambit

hi in the karpov-salov game of the mainline of benko gambit,salov played Bd4 to prevent Ne3 followed by Nc4 but what if we play Ra4 and stopping Ne3 by attacking e4 pawn and when white plays f3 to defend it we play Bd4.... Can anyone help pls

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cant you just throw this line in an engine?

Hey Sharan, you are a PRO Member right? 
The main channel questions I may miss, so please post in the PRO Members channel. 
And please add screenshots of the question or send a video link and mention the moment. 

Tactics from day 1 of FIDE olympiad

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I and my friend started a website called https://chessarticle.com/ where we post new articles and book reviews. already we have published more than 28 articles. we publish articles every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. 

here is our latest article link in which we have selected tactics from FIDE olympiad day 1 - https://bit.ly/3aRDrHR   
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Cool! 

Benko gambit

Hi sir , when are u going to release other advanced section videos for benko gambit and what about 4. A4 and nd2 lines??

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Sharan, I'm rerecording now the full course, adding lots of new interesting stuff. 
Against Nd2 and a4, I recommend to play b4. Check it out the last webinars. 

Guess the move

Today, during analyzing the game of my student, which was played in the Olympiad, we reached to this funny position. Guess what was White's last move :) 

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Nh8 threatening mate? 

Nh8 threatening mate by Neg6

Nexg6# or Nhxg6# !!

Nexg6 or Nhxg6

Yeah, was Nf7-Nh8! :) 

Anti Sicilian Part 1

Hello GM Avetik

There is some problem with one of your recommended variations in anti sicilian course . here it is :

1.e4 c5 2.Cc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.Cf3 Fg7 5.Fc4 Cc6 6.0-0 Cf6 7.d3 0-0 8.De1 e6 9.e5 Ce8 10 Fe3 b6

so here . What if black plays 10.....d5 instead of b6 ????

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If C=Knight, D= Queen and F= bishop 1st how the bishop can come to f3 from c4? and 2nd F means both Bishop and Rook? Because I know russian characters K=Knight, C= bishop, Λ=rook, Φ=queen, Kρ= king. Please clarify the symbols and then I think I can help.

If you mean 10. Be3 d5 then a playable variation occurs after 11. Bxc5 dxc4 12. dxc4 Ne7 13. Rd1 Qc7 14. Ba3 a6 15. Qf2 f6 16. Bd6 Qd8 17. Ba3   the Knight on e7 is pinned and you have a very easy game. English symblos kNight, Bishop, Rook, Queen. Correct me if I am wrong sonewhere. 

We can play Bishop to b3, then follow with c3,d4 and set a rock-solid center.After that we will focus on a kingside attack without an open centre and queenside.We can practice that line if you want, on chess.com

Hey Javad. In the adv. section, I recommend Bb5 move instead of Be3.