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ChessMood - Interesting additional weapon: 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.d4!?
A fresh and interesting try that fits in well with our ChessMood repertoire:
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The above line is a favorite of the Cuban GM Holden Carmenates Hernandez
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Qxd4 Nf6 6.Bd3!? Bg7 7.Nf3
The variation compares favorably to a line of the Austrian Attack against the Pirc [1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Qa5 7.Bd3 Qxc5 8.Qe2 0-0] with an extra tempo for White, and offers similar attacking chances of the type we get with the ChessMood Courses. Please note the Chessmood line is perfectly okay, but it pays to have viable options so as not to become predictable.
I hope you like my suggestion and enjoy success with it.
Where is this idea from?
NEW ARTICLE: What’s the “But” that’s Holding You Back?
We have this topic in our Blog:
https://chessmood.com/blog/what-is-the-but-that-is-holding-you-back
If you have any questions, comments or you just liked it, feel free to share your thoughts here.
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At the end of 2013 I had a tough tournament which ended with a very painful lose against a 2100 (at that moment my rating was 1780). The guy played 1.d3 2.g3 and so on. I didn't know which pawn structure to adopt against this setup and I chose a very bad one because he 0-0-0 and pawn storm me. When I arrive home as always the 1st. thing I do is to analyze and annotate the game. When I finished entering moves and glanced at the final position I wanted to cry. All my Qside pieces where in their initial position. Shocked by his opening I forgot to develope my pieces. All what I learned beginning with Morphy's games didn't served at all. I got so depressed that I said to myself> chess is not meant for you, so I threw the towel.
At the end of 2018 was the Magnus vs. Caruana WC match and I decided to follow it. There was such a good coverage by the media that I got excited with chess and decided to give it a last try. So I nearly had no time to train online because I wanted to begin OTB with the coming 2019.
What a disaster, I played 37 games and lost 220 rating points so instead of playing in the A group now I was relegated to the B group. Things are curious in the B group. They basically don't have an opening repertoire and to my Najdorf they meet it with Closed Sicilian or Maroczy Bind structures. The Caro-Kann is also quite popular in group B, followed by the French and something I didn't know that existed. To 1.e4 he played 1...Nc6. When I arrived home I run to the opening explorer and learnt that it was called the Nimzowitch defence. Well, in resume, nobody in the group B plays the Sicilian so in 37 games, lets say 18 with white playing 1.e4 not a single time it was met by 1...c5.
Well after losing all that that material and blundering a lot I decided to leave OTB but this time not to throw the towel but to study chess. At the end I thought, what Fischer did in 1968-69? In 1968 he played only a couple of medium tournaments in Europe and in 1969 there is only one game registered vs, A.Saidy. Then he came back in 1970 with a never seen force. Crushing all his opponents until he achieved his goal. He wanted to destroy the soviet chess dominance and be crowned chess World Champion. Once accomplished his mission he retired.
Then what he did in 1968-69 without playing chess to come back with such a strength? He studied chess. So the lesson I take is that playing chess is fun and is important but studying chess is not such fun but at the end of the day is what pays off the most,
GM's not active on the forum?
In every opening course, you mention if we any questions we can ask in the forums. But the last few weeks I noticed there are a lot of pro member topics with questions about opening courses, but none of the staff is responding. What is the reason behind this? From the pro-member section:
"In this "Only Pro Members" forum channel all the discussions and topics are on a higher level, and our Grandmasters are there to answer all your questions."
I expected a bit more of this.
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I will have to second this one, especially as there are only a few pro-member questions per day. Overall I'm super satisfied being a CM member, and I really appreciate the obviously hard work that @GM_Avetik_Grigoryan is putting into this, but quick forum answers from the CM team was a huge selling point for me so I hope this could improve.
Btw - maybe Discord would be a better option...
I agree with Yair. One of the problems of having so much stuff in flight, there are so many hours in the day and only so much that can be done.
There is spam starting to appear in the forum which doesn't need a GM to deal with. Hopefully the new website will have a captcha system to stop bots, because otherwise the site could get flooded.
Also everywhere there it mentions 'ask in the forums if unsure', and when that is not being responded to (most are eventually) or is slow (more than a couple of days), plus the issues already mentioned with events, it doesn't look a good advert to get pro member signups or to keep interest for some who have.
On the flip side some good material has come out recently and the Friday tournament coverage events are really useful and it's clear there is a lot of hard work going in.
Perhaps it's a priority thing, but also some patience our side too.
Getting current pro members significantly improved is more of an advert than anything else, if volume of signups is a problem. Plenty of places offer material (of various quality), but which ones can show massive improvements through all rating levels?). It seems to have been more personal in the past (this was the aim as well as a family feel looking at some of the old events and posts a couple of years ago). Now outside of a few places (Friday tournament feedback and daily lessons) it seems to have lost much of that and despite some really good material, is in danger of becoming just another site.
Hey guys!
I express my apologies for the delayed answers in the past month.
And also thanks for all the words, which were related to understanding us.
It's true, that there is a limited time, we all have.
Especially when me, or GM Gabuzyan are getting sick or we are in another accident, it's becoming tough.
It's also tough to launch so many courses, articles and the rest at the same time.
Many changes are coming with new Website, and many things will be fixed.
One thing I can say for sure, is that ChessMood will never ever become like other websites.
Now we're bringing more Grandmasters to ChessMood, which are related with big expenses.
And thanks to many of our students, who're referring to their friends, we survived already 2 years without investors.
Thanks for your understanding and patience. Tomorrow myself, I'll answer all the unanswered questions.
Solving puzzles
Just wondering...Do you find it easy to decide whether the puzzle to draw or win?
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I realize it always when I have to form a fortress and draw the game. Blockading moves are difficult for me to find, although my puzzle ratings is 2019 on chess.com and 2043 on lichess. When it is to win, I get some trouble and usually can't solve it by the first time.
How to overcome time pressure?
Today, I played a blitz session with 9 Games. (Time control - 3+2) Got 6.5 out of 9. But, in almost all the games I was in time trouble. In one game I was in time trouble just before reaching the middlegame (I was below 20 secs), but somehow I won that game. My question is how can we overcome this?
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Hi Sidharth
Caoch covers this in the webinar on Time Management
https://chessmood.com/event/webinar-time-management
Hope that helps!
I would compare with 90/30 time control and ask yourself if you can convert the same position with 90/30 in an offline environment. If the answer is yes, then there should be no regret or hard feelings to losing on time. After all, people are not invited to tier S events because they have a 3k online rating.
Your fav. Chess Piece?
We all love chess but in chess we sometimes starts to like a piece a lot. May be it can be knight or bishop. So what's your fav. chess piece.
Note: Forget about board piece placement.
Mine is Bishops. Because in my life there is no Queen heheeh.
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Strong piece :D
I don't know. Maybe the knight. I love maneuvering with my knights and double attacks. Well, in closed positions, if I have a 2 knights advantage, I win the game.
all of them! <3
Rook, I love Rook lifts.
Is playing Daily Chess the best way for improving analaytical skills?
Hello everyone! I saw some articles on chess.com saying Daily Chess is very useful for improving analytical skills.
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It depends where you play, how strong are your opponents, and if you get everything that you learned into the game. Look, I learn from chessmood courses every day, then I solve some puzzles on chess.com or lichess and then go for a seesion of my preffered time controls (3+0, 5+0, 5+3, 10+0, 10+5, 15+5, 25+0).
I can recommend listen to the latest Perpetual Chess Podcast with Andras Toth. Very interesting stuff about improvement and time controls in general!
I play daily chess, much less nowadays, because the games take too long to complete and the flow of thinking is kind of a broken.
For me the best way to improve analytical skills is to analyze any game afterwards. Most of the time for blitz and rapid games analysis takes much longer, sometimes even up to an hour.
Quote from one of the Chessmood's article :)
Today, I saw the webinar of Time management held on 18 May. In that, Avetik sir said that he don't recommend playing Daily Chess because there is a lot of difference between knowing chess and playing chess.
The best games of January and the prizes
Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions!
Happy New Year and welcome to the "Best games of January" 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 December:
1st- K H
2nd- Michael Larsen
3rd- Kourosh A
4th- Wenstin
5th- Aayush Shirodkar
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Cool Rook Endgame
https://lichess.org/rGAEWbXN/black
Fun start to the new year! Played Bf8 as white :)
https://lichess.org/MqkYgHav/white
Scandinavian defense - 12 move mate.
https://lichess.org/ERj5hWqd/black#24
https://lichess.org/xcAfJ0SvzyCA
Bad opening against AD won.
https://lichess.org/3unRb9gi/black#52
Played against squares
https://lichess.org/LjLPgVRoSNeg
Opening I messed up but later Zukzwang was cool I think
https://lichess.org/jQzLjwhXxkfU
Caro-Kann Defense
https://lichess.org/bSeQg8WQ#2
Coach, had a calculation blindspot. I did saw Bf2+ in this game but I forgot that he can't take my Ne4. Rest all I did was attack and attack and attack.
https://lichess.org/JStjLf7h/black#49
Slav Defense
https://lichess.org/dAMLCXKT/black#0
Queen's Pawn Game
https://lichess.org/mImu86HP/black#0
https://www.chess.com/live/game/3713810691
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6123726538
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6123785232
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6131538317
This was a really interesting game. By move 13 I had my opponent almost completely tied down
Scotch Game
https://lichess.org/mVJK9IWW#5
https://lichess.org/kvTZyEuq There are blunders but the person was rated 900 points above my rating and I got a checkmate in. The person may have been on auto pilot but a win is a win!
https://lichess.org/q95EtRgA
A crushing attack with a nice piece sacrifice!
https://lichess.org/jJs58xksKIan
It was simple and fun
Quick!
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6178190932
I really like our Scotch repotoire - I tend to have good results with it
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6179942119?tab=report
Alright. This game is perfect. Flawless. Also probably my first ever for blitz. I loved today’s lesson webinar. You’ll see. https://lichess.org/Th4X0wyb/black
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6184486024
https://lichess.org/4hkIihmN
Crushing!
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6186930991
I can not say a superb game but it's decent one because I found an attacking move g4!
https://lichess.org/e1a6qy9OeRKR
https://lichess.org/spW7H5cq/white#38
Amazing attack and king hunt in a variation of the Sicilian which is not included in the courses. I am playing black.
According to the lichess analysis, I had a perfect game here - no inaccuracies mistakes or blunders!
https://lichess.org/7ceGI76R/white
Modern Defense
https://lichess.org/yG26Kjzs/white#0
Caro can 1928 vs 2252 1-0
https://lichess.org/UB5z5WEb
He missed f5 but I won later by queenside expensation
https://lichess.org/1IlixTmP/black#49
Just rolling up the kingside - attack basically played itself
https://lichess.org/9CglQf4j4zsA
Miniature with grand prix
https://lichess.org/NCly8BTrmYQN
16 move petroff Miniature
Find noly move to save the game after Qg4
https://lichess.org/fKczenSl2Y7G
Yes, i forgot line but later I played positional chess and won
https://lichess.org/DjUBCkJMg4W0
Queen's Pawn Game
https://lichess.org/ExfcXiC7/black#0
King's Pawn Game'
https://lichess.org/7gVbfcSX#0
Sicilian Defense:
https://lichess.org/loWxVmtq#0
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/GrDNvNTC/black#0
https://lichess.org/dvfCV0lkyToI
trap in french from white side.
https://lichess.org/Uqv45uhMFqwS
winning a nice positional game against Ginger GM ! ( GM Simon Williams )
https://lichess.org/pvk5NJRMXRbH
Very pretty mate in this one
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6229221368
Two sicilians
https://lichess.org/rOQQaIIqEw6j
more sicilians
my favorite sicilians
GP fun
https://lichess.org/4eXuY4sSSW9V
Caro Kann Knockout
https://lichess.org/ZNypj97RQuuR
French positional win
https://lichess.org/xWGkSZER2pKI
Closed Anti Sicilian
Benko
Squeezing in Anti sicilian
Anti sicilian attack
Queen's Pawn Game
https://lichess.org/6vlo55B3/black#0
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/QYls7V4Z/white#0
Scotch Game
https://lichess.org/kfiAUyqo/white#0
Slav Defense
https://lichess.org/phMXFbmI/black#0
Philidor Defense
https://lichess.org/5VXtZQKU/white#0
My Tal style game :) I'm playing black
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6256534429
Anti sicilian attack with many mistakes, but the game itself was fun to play.
Modern defense
Roller coaster in Antisicilian :))
Quick punishment in French
https://lichess.org/NS2hWL2ubvxO
Nice co-ordination of pieces
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6261530102
King in the center
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6261575404
Power of Bishop Pair
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6261718441
Active play to save pawn on b7 and gave me point
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6262932268
Played with gusto :)
knowing openings is good true but sometimes I love to check my positional play so I played like this. Yes black may refute it in classical but online positional training is good
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6264161964
Miniature when I decided NOT to play with chessmood repertoire (blitz online rtg: chess.com=1871, lichess=1876). 100% accuracy
https://lichess.org/IyfmmMlqwCLG
Powerful attacking game :)
I'm trying to change my style of play by trying to play games where I sacrifice material for unbalanced positions where (even if the computer disagrees with me) my opponents lose under heavy pressure
Those are the games:
https://lichess.org/BzG6BbWQ (crushing the Trompowsky!! Thanks GM Avetik :)
https://lichess.org/SEEh6NwU (Sacking pieces for the action)
French defense 1978 vs 2172 1-0
https://lichess.org/mUZPeqy7#1
MMA choke in the Scotch, perfect game...
Blundered the whole rook on 9th move. But didn't give up...
Positional Scotch against FM
Attack in Caro-Kann
French with multiple mistakes from both sides
I do not post here many games because they have many misses, but this is one of these games where you feel very proud, after sacrifices, pressure and everything. It shows the power of development, fading advantages and having a passed pawn against an slow king side development. The Re3 was inspired by the game Carlsen-Radjabov of the Philidor course that I just finished watching before playing.
https://lichess.org/C77jfvZO2d43
Well, it seems that today I am playing with the right mood. After the Chessmood Accelerated Dragon opening played at lightning speed, and giving me the advantage, I kept the trapped knight on h6 the whole game...
https://lichess.org/gbhdoKGpv2f9
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6280396112
Thank you Chessmood for opening course lesson.
Bishop sacrifice for attack, difficult to defend...
https://lichess.org/cGk7abBKVGDE
fine positional domination ended with a deadly kingside attack against 1...d6 2...c6?!
https://lichess.org/F0NqhKcZexrW
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6284342159
attack
Passive Bc4 against Sicilians won
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6284463103
13 move Grand Prix
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6284507690
https://lichess.org/8526Mm2k/white#19
This was an interesting game
This was the second round game of our club championship (not rated) with 60+30 time control Due to covid, we had to play online. My opponent's ELO is 1851, mine is 1991. I was White.
The opening
I expected the 2. ... Nf6 line in the Scandinavian Defense. In his older games, my opponent answered 3. Bb5+ with the more solid 3. ... Bd7. In his more recent games, he played 3. ... Nbd7 4. c4 g6. For the latter, our course includes the following lines after 4. ... a6 (instead of 4. ... g6) 5. Bxd7 Qxd7 6. d3 e6 7. dxe6 Qxe6 8. Ne2 and 5. ... Bxd7 6. Nf3 e6 7. Qe2 Be7 8. dxe6 Bxe6 9. d4.
I liked the setup with d3 and Ne2 (and a later Ng3-e4) and to decided exchange my Bishop against the Knight on d7 even without a preceding a6. In the previous gams of my opponent, White tried to keep the Bishop but I got the feeling that Black's Knight was more active.
The Middlegame and Tactics
I am quite happy with how I played the middlegame. I had active pieces, kept the pressure in the center, and prevented any major counterstrike of my opponent. We both thought that Black should not play f6-f5 and allow an exchange of the dark-squared Bishops. However, Shredder considers this a better move for Black on move 16 and 17.
On move 17 I considered Nc5 (instead of g3, protecting the pawn on f4) during the game and had the feeling that this might work. However, the variations were quite complicated and would have led to some danger for my king. So I went for the safer g3 assumes that I still had some advantage (the engine agrees on that).
The same is true for 24. Ne4. I had started calculating 24. cxb5 and was quite sure that this could be stronger. However, Black could get some counterplay on the b-line and continuing with Ne4 was a safer way to keep the advantage for me.
On move 26 I missed a tactic (26. Rxe7) but preserved a clear advantage with 26. Qc2.
The endgame and tactics
d6 on move 31 would have won faster. Again, I chose a move that seemed to be "safer" (31. Re7) and kept my winning advantage (the engine agrees on that).
Conclusion
After a well-done preparation, I had a plan for the middle game that was able to implement. There were no mistakes on my side that could have resulted in me losing my advantage. I missed one tactic, only.
Queenside Majority
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6289617366
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6289412570
grand Prix Kill
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6291577177
Attacking Game!
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6301810191
Cool Game!
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6301896310
https://lichess.org/Ex7AgsRVtGh2
This is a game I played on lichess.org. I am playing Black. In this game, on move 14, I made an exchange sacrifice for initiative. This is that game. Hope you will like it.
This is the pgn:
[Event "51st tournament"] [Site "https://lichess.org/jobZYRxp"] [Date "2021.01.21"] [White "johngalt1618"] [Black "chessplayer476"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2021.01.21"] [UTCTime "12:30:01"] [WhiteElo "2091"] [BlackElo "1891"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-9"] [BlackRatingDiff "+28"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "900+5"] [ECO "B22"] [Opening "Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Stoltz Attack"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "lichess.org"] 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 { B22 Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Stoltz Attack } g6 7. O-O Bg7 8. d4 cxd4 9. cxd4 O-O 10. Re1 d6 11. e6 fxe6 12. Bxe6+ Bxe6 13. Rxe6 Qc8 14. Re1 Rxf3 15. gxf3 Nxd4 16. Bf4 Qf5 17. Re4 e5 18. Nc3 d5 19. Rxd4 exd4 20. Ne2 d3 21. Ng3 Qxf4 22. Qxd3 Rf8 23. Kg2 Qc4 24. Qd2 Qd4 25. Qa5 Nc4 26. Qc7 Be5 27. Qxb7 Bxg3 28. hxg3 Rxf3 29. Qc8+ Rf8 30. Qe6+ Kh8 31. f4 Qe4+ 32. Qxe4 dxe4 33. Rc1 Nxb2 34. Rc7 Re8 35. Kf1 e3 36. Ke2 Nd3 37. Kxd3 e2 38. Rxa7 e1=Q 39. f5 Qe3+ 40. Kc4 Qxa7 41. fxg6 Qc7+ 42. Kd5 Qd7+ 43. Kc5 Rc8+ 44. Kb6 Qc7+ 45. Ka6 Ra8+ 46. Kb5 Rb8+ 47. Ka6 Qb6# { Black wins by checkmate. } 0-1
And, this is the GIF:
https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/black/jobZYRxp.gif
Scotch Game
https://lichess.org/Y1bGjjf0/white#0
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/QTBFaV4T/black#0
Slow chess and I did atleast okay
https://lichess.org/TXJMEZ0QCDO9
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6312224475
B/b vs b/n endgame
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6316466247
https://lichess.org/dFQDE3pU52w0
Having just finished watching the ChessMood Rossolimo video repertoire, I was very proud of this game! (Also incorporates "Daily Lesson #11" - using my bishops to annihilate white's queenside!) Enjoy :D
Caro win
https://lichess.org/QRJbh0KK3uQW
Power of Space
https://lichess.org/IlGbJsfUX0FN
Accelerated Dragon line which i forgot i think
https://lichess.org/vcCXZXXSMPw7
Scotch Game
https://lichess.org/8MR6AlO9NaYZ
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/HeVvBorm/white#0
Philidor Defense
https://lichess.org/v49P58Wu/white#0
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/H61wWtI4/black#0
Totally outplayed him.
https://lichess.org/wEEwnXWBSuHX
https://lichess.org/mZ1qUsxEorHb
Fun king walk!
https://lichess.org/UV5s4Lk0/white
Caro can 2003 vs 2202 1-0
https://lichess.org/8evXVpjy/white#53
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/rSPiB0X5
King's Pawn Game
https://lichess.org/KPTpIJBo
Knightmare in the middle of the board:
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6244143758
Power of the bisoph pair inspired by GM Hovhannes:
https://lichess.org/CwWu7HbrSJ5K
Trap an IM in London (98%):
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6241301723
Why never make long castle in exchange slav:
https://lichess.org/7mOidrc6/black#1
Importance of pawn structure:
https://lichess.org/0raDgEIw#1
Trap the king in the middle of the board:
https://lichess.org/AumestFFz3N5
Well played, nothing more to say.
Very Nice Game!
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6342084291
https://lichess.org/xyAQQVYJ7zpk
Scotch Game
https://lichess.org/Hc7uIpqk#0
Slav Defense
https://lichess.org/R5McGQZe/black#0
Russian Game
https://lichess.org/23jdwoHe#0
https://lichess.org/ukMHYaoT2OEg
From move 23 great attack (98%)
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6342794021
Winning
with Chessmood openings:
https://lichess.org/hz3ES1jK/white#33
https://lichess.org/bR1Jhcc4/white#57
https://lichess.org/YPXTkdMn/white
Winning
with Modern Benoni:
https://lichess.org/zhwEtQ9N/black#52
Crushing
Alekhine’s Defence:
https://lichess.org/2RzFyJA5/white#43
https://lichess.org/oxD0zBHZfrGW
Crushing
the Scandinavian
https://lichess.org/yqT2piRx/white#43
Killing the
Stafford Gambit
https://lichess.org/ER2uXohk/white#41
.
https://lichess.org/VStXrxM9Jswb
https://lichess.org/joslyzkF/white#47
https://lichess.org/JqNisagw/black#60
https://lichess.org/Q5g05QldConJ
I wont say it was super sound sac on f6 but I just wanted to use light weak squares.
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6360509131
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6360572276
Caro Kann Win
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/hQctqXyj/black#0
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/4aYXbPr6/black#0
Very interesting Scandi with a minor piece sacrifice for the attack.
Crazy Game
https://www.chess.com/game/live/6362663175
Zero mistake, all move green
https://lichess.org/WDyogzLj/white#1
Taking advantage of what my opponent gave me
This game I won against 2257 and I was 1802. It was just attack and attack and then I made a tactic to win his queen
https://lichess.org/GYXBtrBz/black#94
This game I won his queen early in the game but it was very hard to convert but it went rather smoothly.
https://lichess.org/znwFxGVb/white#120
https://lichess.org/pNnPPqS8/white#49
10 move trap in AntiSicilian
Scotch pawn storm
Benko
English for black
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Nice game but Blitz without increment really is not healthy for chess.
https://www.chess.com/game/live/6370246351
Caro win against over 2400
https://lichess.org/5WIx5I9sVl30
Crushed Black with the GP Attack.
https://lichess.org/k1l9kpMnromE
One more victory with GP
https://lichess.org/OEucdYmX/white
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/XDQPoysD/black#0
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/vrFpKYnS/white#4
Funny King Walk
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6393730093
Super bad against GP destroyed
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6393719121
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/tbp5rNIo/white#4
Win against 2400. I was lucky. Unfortunately this opening line is uncommon so it's hard to remember all ideas of advanced section but I tried my best.
https://lichess.org/hqBdZQAfxMs0
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https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6397993978
Strange transposition to Scotch, afterwards it was one way ticket :)
My entry for this month..93% accuracy according to chess.com
I do not expect this to be anywhere good enough for you higher rated players but at 5 minute blitz for me it is...sick bro.So just give me a prize for once! Thank you for your kind attention & don't forget Right Mood Right Move...COGRO
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2021.01.31"]
[Round "-"]
[White "playe4"]
[Black "Nic19917"]
[Result "1-0"]
[CurrentPosition "r4rkb/4Np1p/pq3Pp1/2p1n1B1/2P5/3P1Q2/PP4PP/1R3RK1 b - -"]
[Timezone "UTC"]
[ECO "B23"]
[ECOUrl "https://www.chess.com/openings/Sicilian-Defense-Grand-Prix-Attack-3...e6"]
[UTCDate "2021.01.31"]
[UTCTime "01:21:14"]
[WhiteElo "1209"]
[BlackElo "1238"]
[TimeControl "300"]
[Termination "playe4 won by checkmate"]
[StartTime "01:21:14"]
[EndDate "2021.01.31"]
[EndTime "01:25:24"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/live/game/6400840762"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 e6 4. Bb5 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. Nf3 g6 7. O-O Bg7 ± 8.
d3 e5 {INACCURACY (+2.82)} ({(+1.70) The best move was} 8... Ba6 9. e5 d5 10.
Na4 Bf8 11. b3 c4 12. Be3 cxd3 13. cxd3 Nh6 14. Nc5 Qc8 15. Bf2 Ng4 16. Bd4 h5
17. Qe1 Be7 18. b4 Bb5 19. a4) 9. f5? = {MISTAKE (+0.65)} ({(+2.82) The best
move was} 9. fxe5 dxe5 10. Be3 Nf6 11. Bxc5 Nd7 12. Be3 O-O 13. Qd2 Qc7 14. h3
f6 15. Rf2 Rb8 16. b3 Bb7 17. Bh6 Bxh6 18. Qxh6 Qb6 19. Qd2) 9... d5 ±
{INACCURACY (+1.82)} ({(+0.65) The best move was} 9... Nf6 10. Qe1 Rb8 11. Kh1
O-O 12. b3 gxf5 13. exf5 Nd5 14. Ne4 Bxf5 15. Nh4 Bg6 16. Nf5 Nb4 17. Qd2 Bxf5
18. Rxf5 f6) 10. Bg5 Nf6? {MISTAKE (+4.11)} ({(+1.36) The best move was} 10...
Qd6 11. Nh4 f6 12. Bd2 Ne7 13. b3 Ba6 14. Qe1 O-O 15. Rf2 g5 16. Nf3 Kh8 17. h3
Qd8 18. Rd1 Ng8) 11. Nxe5 O-O {INACCURACY (+4.48)} ({(+3.51) The best move was}
11... Qc7 12. exd5 O-O 13. Bf4 Qb7 14. dxc6 Qxb2 15. Qd2 Qb4 16. Be3 Ng4 17.
Rab1 Bxe5 18. Rxb4 cxb4 19. Ne4 Nxe3) 12. Nxc6 Qc7 13. exd5 Bb7 14. Nb5?
{MISTAKE (+3.45)} ({(+5.06) The best move was} 14. Qf3 Rac8 15. Nxa7 Rce8 16.
Nc6 Qb6 17. Rab1 c4+ 18. Kh1 cxd3 19. cxd3 Nxd5 20. Nxd5 Qxc6 21. Ne7+ Rxe7 22.
Qxc6 Bxc6 23. Bxe7 Ra8 24. f6 Bh8) 14... Qd7 15. c4 {INACCURACY (+3.07)}
({(+4.00) The best move was} 15. Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Qf3 Bxb2 17. Rab1 Bf6 18. Kh1 Kg7
19. Rb3 a6 20. Na3 g5 21. Rfb1 Bxc6 22. dxc6 Qd4 23. c3 g4 24. cxd4 gxf3 25.
dxc5) 15... Bxc6 16. dxc6 Qxc6 17. Qf3 Qb6 18. Rab1 a6 19. Nc3 Nd7? {MISTAKE
(+7.28)} ({(+3.78) The best move was} 19... Rae8 20. fxg6 fxg6 21. Nd5 Nxd5 22.
Qxd5+ Kh8 23. Rxf8+ Rxf8 24. Be3 Rf5 25. Qa8+ Rf8 26. Qe4 h5 27. b4 Rf5 28. Qe7
Re5 29. Bxc5 Rxe7 30. Bxb6) 20. f6 Bh8 {INACCURACY (+9.48)} ({(+6.37) The best
move was} 20... Nxf6 21. Bxf6 Bxf6 22. Qxf6 Qxf6 23. Rxf6 a5 24. Rbf1 Rac8 25.
g4 h6 26. Ne4 a4 27. R6f3 Rb8 28. Nf6+ Kg7 29. Nd7) 21. Nd5 Ne5?? {BLUNDER (♔
Mate in 1)} ({(+9.86) The best move was} 21... h6 22. Nxb6 Nxb6 23. Bxh6 Rfc8
24. Rbe1 Rc7 25. h4 Rac8 26. h5 Nd7 27. Bg5 gxh5 28. Qxh5 Rd8 29. a3) 22. Ne7#
1-0
Hi, I played the Anti Sicilian with 2.Nc3 and won this game after sacrificing almost everything.
https://www.chess.com/game/live/6402403705
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/tFhPUirA/black#2
Sicilian Defense
https://lichess.org/mgzfSp1a/black#3
Scotch Game
https://lichess.org/LLbpADlN/white#7
Caro Kann aggression even though i forgot theory
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6403368422
https://lichess.org/mFAtHu2C/white
The Stafford Gambit is unbelievable bad: https://lichess.org/7NkOqn7v/white#61
Last game, the best game....
Alekhine defence
https://lichess.org/sdgYY0j2/white#49
An unusual Queen trap!
Nice Queen sacrifice
Hello Champions and future champions, hello ChessMood Family!
Thanks for all your games.
The quality of the games is growing and growing...
The 1st prize goes to Meet Shah. As he commented "In this game, I sacrificed almost everything" -https://www.chess.com/game/live/6402403705
The 2nd prize goes to Wenstin for his attack with happy pieces https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6131538317
The 3rd prize goes to Karl Strohmaier for his thematic attack with Scotch.
https://lichess.org/MqkYgHav/white
The 4th prize goes to Koek Woltek for his cool with Bh7 sac. (the game is on the 1st page)
The 5th prize goes to Abhi Yadav, for his Rf6 exch. sacrifice and nice mat with minor pieces.
https://www.chess.com/live/game/6360509131
Additional 2 prizes are getting Sai Balkawade and Vladimir Bugayev for their cool attacks (10k each)
Thanks, everyone for the games!
See you in February!
Tata Steel 2021 Drama - Alireza Firouzja vs Radoslaw Wojtaszek - R13
Hi Friends,
Extremely disrespectful and very unprofessional from the organizers to distract Alireza during the final game. They asked him to move! Alireza blundered soon after that discussion, and the game ended in a draw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZPEH-T4kVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUz4wVXwybQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BWYflxVoC4
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I don't understand why they asked it? :/
Sopiko bullied Alireza? Holy... do you happen to have the link for that?
I don't accept what Arbiters did with Firouzja, they would never do this with Magnus!
2021 tournaments
Hi, dear Chessmood family.
I would like to read some options of you about this year's tournaments, especially like some big Open tournaments.
How do you think will such tournaments be organized or not?
What about your country?
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As said before unlikely before summer, looking more like at least autumn now.
There are online tournaments (open to international players) as I posted a few days ago in the 4NCL post. The 45 15 every two weeks closes for entries in a few hours, as well and the first game is tonight.
In India, the OTB tournaments are slowly starting. Some small OTB tournaments are there now.
We have a tournament very soon! and don't think that we are so excited about this :D
Memorization technique
Hi. While studying and watching the video courses I asked myself if there is any useful memorization technique to remember the opening lines provided in the courses. If you have experience with learning openings I would like to hear your suggestions or hints to remember the lines better.
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Hi Geitz
Coach has created very useful blogs on this topic.
https://chessmood.com/blog/how-to-memorize-chess-openings-variations
https://chessmood.com/blog/the-most-effective-way-to-create-chess-pgn-files
For myself, these approaches have worked very well, as it's better to understand the ideas rather than the exact moves.
Hope this helps.
Hi Geltz!
It's a very common question, and I would like to support the answer Mik provided below, check out the articles and you will definitely find your questions answered!
Good luck.
I put the moves in Chess Position Trainer and train them daily, mostly 12 moves deep.
Chess Training
When I saw grandmaster wrote I was training for 8 hours a day. I always ask how he divided his time among different aspects like studying openings, studying grandmasters games, solving tactics or others.
What is the ideal way for chess training for 2000+ chess players
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3-4 hours of intensive training is enough
I am pretty sure most GMs are not so dogmatic in their training. When they say they are training for 8 hours, it doesn't mean 3 hours of endgames every day, and 4 hours on openings and and extra hour reviewing recent theoretical games.
More likely, they set out a goal of learning something (an opening, a concept, a theoretical endgame, etc.) and spend the time needed to master it, then move to the next idea, as well as take a little time to review their learning over the last few weeks to make sure they retain what they are learning,
How to overcome overconfidence?
Hello! I am seeing that when I solve puzzles etc. when I see a move and looks like it's good, I am becoming overconfident and play that move and often gets wrong. How to overcome this?
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I get the same problem, and it's one with tactical puzzles, particularly timed ones.
Often the solution is mate the king via a sacrifice or attack something and win something else. This means you stop looking at the rest of the position and the consequences of your actions.
You could try mixing in longer games or even study classical ones where you analyse the position properly to get you out of that habit.
I also found this resource useful:
http://www.neoneuro.com/downloads/chuzhakinssystem.pdf
@Sidharth Sreekumar
Hi Sidharth,
I suspect your problem could be that you are relying on pattern recognition alone to solve the puzzles, however pattern recognition is just one component of chess strength the other being accurate calculation. Essentially once you think that you have hit upon the right idea, the next step is to find an accurate series of moves to confirm and successfully execute the operation, and in order to do that you have to pay careful attention to the details.
Do you really calculate everything to the end, with all possible variations? Writing down your variation without moving the pieces is a good method. If you then get a move you didn't expect, you missed something in your calculation. This video is helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzzyR_YIZz0&t=135s
Hello Everyone!
I have seen you guys discussing here Confidence topic about the concrete moves and game confidence will try to share my opinion.
About the moves, confidence is coming to me in case if I calculated all possibilities of an opponent after my move since I figure out there is nothing that I missed looks like a good spot to be fulfilled with confidence.
In the case of a chess game, you should be confident always! Even if you are a beginner first step in beating someone really stronger is to believe that you can. I recommend never to be scared of an opponent even if you are playing GM as once the game started and you are over the board you can't be leaving until it's over, so why not believe and give your best shot?
Good luck everyone!
A variation in the Scotch (doubt)
Hello ChessMood Family! When I was checking using the reference in ChessBase I saw 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nb3 Bb4+!?. There are 20-30 Games played by Top Players. Most of the White players are playing c3. What do you recommend?
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I've asked this before, and GM Avetik confirmed that he has this line on his TODO list.
Damiano Variation trap in the Petroff (Nxe4)
[Edit - this is covered in the advanced section, but at least mentioned of the trap and what move to play instead should be in the main section. Any advanced details could be left for pro if it's really for 2000+ players, otherwise this whole part should be in the main course].
The coverage of Nxe5 Nxe4 cuts off too early that White is just a pawn up.
There is a nasty trap as I found out:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Qe7 5. Qxe4 d6 6. d4 dxe5 7. dxe5 Nc6
and now 8. Bb5 is the computer's recommended move to hang on to the pawn 8... Bd7 9. Nc3
9... Nxe5? 10. Nd5+ Qd6 11. Bxd7+ Kxd7 12. Bf4 Re8 13. O-O-O Kc8 14. Rhe1
9... Qb4 10. Bc4 O-O-O 11. a3 Qa5 12. Bxf7 Qxe5 13. Qxe5 Nxe5 14. Bb3
however if 8. Bf4? g5! and if 9. Bg3?? f5!! with e5 to follow 9. Bb5 Bd7 10. e6 is still better for White, but one would expect much more.
The video probably should be slightly extended to note the trap and correct play, since this will be seen quite often in the lower ratings.
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Maybe even a quick section in abracadabra gambits?
Hi, the book by John Shaw, Playing 1.e4 by Quality Chess also gives the same line. Here is the whole line in the book. I hope that this helps in the meanwhile.
All of this, including the trap, is covered in "Advanced Section - More about 3...Ne4".
More Chessmood Opening Model Games
There was a pgn containing 100 Chessmood model games. It's very nice.
Can we add more model games to this pgn please? Thanks!
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Was, where?
Attacking and Defending
Which is easy to learn and improve, what is your playing style?
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Attacking is real fun and easy, just bring everyone to the party and enjoy the feast !! .... As they say, sac, sac , sac and mate :)
Although I defend good, and mostly when I face 2000-2200 online players, I make a draw after defending in the whole game... On the other hand, I enjoy fast attacks. But my favourite sacrifice is an exchange sacrifice when defending.
learning to attack is much easier because there is a lot of material to attack, more than defense, I think I prefer attack, but of course both are very important.
Streaming
Hi everyone, I would like to know how many of you are interested in streams?
Do you watch streams and who is your favorite streamer?
Are there streamers among Pro members?
I know one among our Pro members, she is my best friend too she has just started her journey and I recommend to follow her and support :) www.twitch.tv/susikgaboyan
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I watch all ChessMood streams. I also will watch Twitch streams from time to time. I have watched Hikaru, John Bartholomew, Robert Hess, as well as a couple others.
I have debated starting to stream my self. While I am not a titled player and less likely to get large audiences, I believe it would actually be good for the thought process of deciding moves, since we are speaking out loud our thoughts, we may be able to better fix the errors in the way we think.
Aww thank you so much <3
For fun:
CHESS BRAH (or chessbrah): Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton.
Botez sisters
For serious studying:
"From 800 to 2400 on chess.com" (ChessMood)
Hikaru Nakamura, John Bartholomew, Sergei Zhigalko, Alexander Zubov, Zaven Andriasian and all chessmood streams.
One of the best streams for learning is Daniel Naroditsky Speedrun to 3000
I have been following Twitch chess streams for years now. To clarify, I started Twitch chess before GothamChess(IM Levy Rozman), before Anna_chess (IM Anna Rudolf) and before GM Hikaru Nakamura had streams on Twitch. In fact, back then I used to chess stream regularly myself and I still very occasionally do still do my chess stream. Currently I follow one Chess Mood streamer (Susik Gaboyhan) that I know of but I maybe following other members that I do not know of. Perhaps someone should maintain a list of Twitch chess Chess Mood streamers? Do you Twitch chess stream? If you do, I may be following your stream, but some chess streams are not as notable as others! Still gl with your stream if you have one & never forget, Right Mood Right Move on and off stream ;-)
I like Attila Turzo's streams and RB Ramesh's streams. Very useful for serious chess study. Links -
Attila Turzo: https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo
RB Ramesh: https://www.twitch.tv/gmrameshrb
ChessDojo is one of my favorite streaming channels, one of the very best in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuI6GHmu19s&t
- Entertaining
- Educational
- Fun
Unlock courses
Hello everyone. I am dhruvil. I have just become a new member of chessmood. Plz unlock courses for 2 days so I can see what's inside the course. If you will not unlock course I couldn't decide that should I buy or become a pro member or not? So my advice is to unlock the courses for 2 days so I could decide.
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Hi Dave,
I am a PRO member and believe me the courses are of high quality.
Havinbg said that the biggest benefit to gain is when you also embrace the Chessmood oppenings repertoire, not just the ideas presented.
I'm a Pro member too...I want add that each course has it's unlocked videos, that show what is the course about
You can always try it out for a month and then cancel? With your idea, people can just watch a course in two days, copy all the lines and then have a free repertoire where GM's put a lot of work in.
@Dhruvil_Dave, GM Avetik has recorded a video on Latvian Gambit...you can check that out, if you like the content, you can consider PRO membership then
hi there!
All courses are unlocked for 32 h ... https://www.facebook.com/chessmood/
so you can check them out!
have fun!
Dhruvil, it's one of the most surprising posts I've ever seen in ChessMood.
No one ask you to become a PRO Member, and we don't sell you anything.
It's your life your decisions.
We didn't unlocked our courses, so people see how cool they're and become a PRO.
This was a gift from us. Hopefully you'll appreciate.
Good luck.
P.S
You can't ask someone's password. It's not just unethical, but also when our system notices different IP addresses from same account, the account will be banned.
4NCL tournaments
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/
The 4NCL is the equivalent of the Bundesliga for Great Britain (4 Nations Chess League). That doesn't mean that only UK / Irish players are accepted and there are entries from outside.
There are two online 45 15 congresses coming up (I believe the only requirement is if you're not an ECF [English Chess Federation] member you probably will need a FIDE membership as well as the need to pay an additional £5 for entry). I'm not sure how Scottish Federation grades are handled.
The first is the spring congress which is a game on Tuesday 7:30pm GMT every 2 weeks. This one starts this Tuesday so the deadline for entry is close. Note also the clocks go forward an hour in the UK on Sunday 28th March during the tournament (I assume the organisers will send a reminder).
The other is the 5th Online congress which is the weekend 19th-21st February.
Details, entry costs and timings are on the website.
Also note the fairplay rules prohibit streaming.
Time to unleash the Chessmood repertoire.
