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KIA

What is the best setup against kings indian attack for black

White is super solid and how to breakthrough

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Maybe You can go into closed sicillian positions  

For Example. 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.0-0 0-0 5.d3 c5 If white plays 6.e4 it transposes to sicillian type positions or else If white replies 6.c4 Then you can play either 6...Nc6 follow up with d5 or direct d5 follow up with Nc6

Hello Denvash, it can be also useful to play like against the King's Indian, Petrosian variation with a tempo down. 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O e5 5. d3 Be7 6. Nc3 d4 7. Ne6 h6, preparing g5 closing the Kingside and preparing to transfer the game on the queenside. Also, watch the game Bobotsov Petrosian " Never play without a plan ".

It depends on your setup as black. If you play d5 vs Nf3 for example, I can highly reccomend Jan Gustafssons (A second of carlsen) video on it. He goes for an e6,d5,c5 setup, and plays a profilactical setup (dont want to go into detail, as it is his work) He mostly relies of Karjakins games where he had 0 problems.

I'm big fan of h3 setup :) 

Anti-Sicilian Part 1: Example Game

This was how I crushed a 2000-rated player on Chess.com, with all the moves in the course. Hope you enjoy!

He resigned after Rxf7.

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Nice!! 
Have you seen my game against Alekseenko? :) 
Same trap :) 

Novelty

I always feel excited about how GMs handle whenever they are hit by any novelty during they are playing a tournament. How is your mindset that now the task is to handle a silicon brain not muscles hehehe. How you guys handle those feelings?

A story I remembered in which Fabi threw a novelty on Aronian in Sinquefield Cup and it took a lot time almost half the time of Aronian but he found all right moves but in the end he lost due to time pressure. 

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Novelties are different. 
Bluf novelty, semibluf novelty, strong novelty. 
Mostly they try to figure it out which one has done opponent and then based on it, find a solution :) 

A blog Suggestion

Can in future you guys write a blog on  basic steps on visualizations skills?

It will be helpful for us to learn to think in proper way. We all can assess ok the position is plus minus we have initiative but task becomes tough when we need to calculate lines. Especially with a line full of branches from move 1. I know calculation is a broad subject but still any intro to this dark mystery will be helpful for those who have no mentors.

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I agree. Visualization and Calculation for dummies would be a nice bonus course

Yeah, they are big topics! 
Hopefully, I'll be able to create an app I have in my mind. 
I'll need to have developers volunteers to help me with that. 

Hi everyone~

I'm a FIDE 1900 who loves chess. Joined PRO  because of the exchange Caro Kann and the commented games courses. A few views and I've learned a lot  of new concepts and ideas already. 

Although, I don't intend to replace my whole repertoire with Chessmood's :)

The grandmasters running this Chessmood brand seem to be dedicated and honest, so let's take advantage of it!

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Hello, I spent 1 whole year trying to find trustworthy online sources to improve my chess and I luckily came accross Chessmood before 10 months. I am a PRO member since 1 month, and my favourite course is Commented Classical Games.

Welcome to our family. Even if you think no  you don't wanna change your repo  then I suggest you to check out all courses and I am sure you will change your mind. I changed my repo too. I never ever played Grand Prix and now Grand Prix vs Sicilian is almost 1-0 for me. Rest in case of caro kann too. So, enjoy and learn well . Have a good day and good luck for your games

Hello and welcome! I found this past ChessMood webinar helpful on opening choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKZFMuULwk. Whatever you play though, as you hinted already, there are good ideas to learn from all the courses and webinars, ideas you can apply in other contexts.

I think the classical games collection and the community alone is worth the price of membership.

Even I did not play anti sicilian with nc3 but I have faith in these courses and I completed all the parts

Inguh, welcome to PRO team :) 
You should reserve your 1-1 welcome call for getting a personalized study plan. 
At the end you can keep your study plan, keep your opening choices, but I think the call gonna be valuable for you :) 

Draw against Master Fide from Indonésia Blitz Online!

Uma Galera conseguiu empatar com um MF da Indonésia que tenha 2350 de Blitz (tenho 1655), pior que vi ou lança o que o computador fala para fazer, usar peão no e5, mas não vi a sequência do que achei melhor ou perfeito!

The crowd managed to tie with an MF from Indonesia that has 2350 Blitz (I have 1655), worse than I saw or spear that the computer says to do, use a pawn on the e5, but I didn't see the sequence of what I found best or perpetual! 
Thanks GM Avetik for your classes!!!! 

[Evento "Hourly SuperBlitz Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/ciy39k7i"] [Data "2020.08.02"] [Branco "MagicIrair"] [Preto "FIRDAUSMAKSUM_FM"] [Resultado "1 / 2-1 / 2"] [UTCDate "2020.08.02"] [UTCTime "23:23:52"] [WhiteElo "1655"] [BlackElo "2340"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+6"] [BlackRatingDiff "-5"] [Variante "Padrão"] [TimeControl "180 + 0"] [ECO "B00"] [Abertura "Barnes Defense"] [Rescisão "Normal"] [Anotador "lichess.org"] 1. e4 f6 {B00 Barnes Defense} 2. f4 Kf7 3. Bc4 + e6 4. f5 h5 5. fxe6 + dxe6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. OO Nc5 8. d4 Na4 9. c3 Nb6 10. Bb3 a5 11. Ne5 + Ke8 12 Qf3 Ne7 13. a4 fxe5 14. Qf7 + Kd7 15. Qxe6 + Ke8 16. Qf7 + Kd7 17. Qe6 + Ke8 18. Qf7 + Kd7 19. Qe6 + Ke8 20. Qf7 + Kd7 21. Qe6 + Ke8 {O jogo é um empate. } 1 / 2-1 / 2

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Cool! :) 

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Hi
It works fine by me. What is you solution?
/KS

Hi Krystof? Do you mean the puzzle of 24 July? 
What's the issue?? 
I tried, all works fine. 
Can you send a screenshot please? 

welcome and one question

Hi all Chessmood friends,

My name is Wojciech I'm from Poland and I wont to introduce mysalfe to start. I'm amatore chess plaey and I want to improwe my skills due to chessmood courses. 

I have one queston. The file PGN is posible to course "11. Crushing the Pirc" ???

all the best

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There are attachments after the courses

(Pgn + Homework)

You can download them

It's a draft file and you have to fill in all the details to remeber the variations correctly

the pirc course isnt too big, so I made my own file, eventho I play it a bit differently. If you want I can send you the file I made

The key is to make your own PGN files, to help reinforce what you have learned. 

A question to think about

Can you honestly say to yourself that you use time effectively?  

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I tend to train more what I like than what I really need, so neither effectively not efficiently... But working on it... 

My daily schedule in mentioned in the bottom:

Openings:

2hr on chessmood openings daily revision bec I finished the courses in past so in order to memorise lines I am doing revision.

Tactics from Woodpecker Method Book:

3 hr on tactics because I am doing woodpecker training. I am on third cycle of my first set of 850 puzzles so have to finish it before 8th August.

Endgames: 

I am doing worse in endgames so I am working on Muller Endgame Dvds and three pages daily from  dvoretsky endgame manual ..  It takes 2 hrs of me to analise but still I fail in most of the analysis but I am grasping ideas.

Middlegames:

 In past I saw all Chessmood videos on Commented Classical Games so after that I downloaded 570 hr middlegame videos from Saint Louis Chess Channel and I saw 200 hr of content in 3 month and grasped a lot concepts from them.

Now, I started to work on books  the following books: Takes my 6 hrs

1. Karpov's best Games. 1 game a day

2.  GM Chess Strategy " What Amatures can learn from Ulf Anderson's Games. 1 game a day

3.  Chess Pattern Recognition for Beginners. 2 example out of 6 (daily from one chapter)

4.  The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery (Book by Jeremy Silman) Daily 10 pages from this book

Calculation:

As coach @GM_Avetik_Grigoryan told me I need a mentor so soon I hope to hire @Nicolo_Pasini as my mentor but right now I can't so I need to arrange things first then I will work on calculation with him.

So I think I am doing my work with dedication but yeah I need to work soon on calculation and then I will do well I know. 

If you think I am doing something wrong then coach let me know.,

Related to efficient use of time: If you had 2 hours to invest daily in chess, what do you think it is more efficient?

1.- To spend the two hours on the same theme. For example, monday openings, tuesday strategic/positional play, wednesday tactics, etc

2.- Divide the 2 hours in 2 slots of 60 minutes or 4 slots of 30 minutes and train different themes in each slot

My daily schedule is 

1. 3 hrs of ChessMood opening.

2. 1 hr of tactics training from chesstempo and 1 hr from chess.com

3. 1 hr of end game training from Silman's book and chesstempo.

4. 1 hr of ChessMood opening revision.

5. 1 hr of commented classical games.

I ask more suggestions from our coach and advanced members for first growth. 

Scotch

E4  E5

Nf3. Nc6

D4.  Cxd4

Nxd4 Qh4

Nb5  Bc5

Qf3. 

What happens after Nd4

My engine is going super crazy

Sometimes, it shows advantage, sometimes equal

How to continue? 

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I believe the best continuation is: 1. ... Nd4 2. Nxc7+ Kd8 3. Qf4 Nxc2+ 4. Kd1 Qxf4 5. Bxf4 Nxa1 6. Nxa8 d6 the endgame is equal, both Knights will be trapped in the corners and we have also kept our space advantage with e4 pawn against d6 one.

The Winners of July

Hello ChessMood Family, hello champions! 
This month we got 300+ games! 

Just one thing guys, this is the contest of best games. 
No need to post here absolutely all the games you played, or the games you won. 

Let's see the winners. 

The winner of the best games of July becomes Moemedi Machobane for his impressing attack in Acc. Dragon variation. Moemedi also raised his classical rating with 62 points in 1 tournament! 

The 2nd prize goes to Devansh Shah for his crushing the Caro Kann. 

The 3rd prize goes to Rob Dzedzic for his Grand Prix attack! 

The 4th prize goes to Piotr Urbanski, for his Queen Sacrifice! :) 

The 5th prize goes to Arman Shahzamani for his nice attack.  

The prizes will be sent to your accounts. 

Thanks for all the participants. 
Keep the good job and COGRO (Constant Growth), 
and see you in the contest of August! 

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Congrats to all the winners and good luck for the upcoming event!

Congratulations To All The Winners!!

Congratulations to all the winner!!!

Game 1 Rubinstein-Nimzowitsch 1928

There were at least two 1928 Rubinstein-Nimzowitsch games, both Nimzo-Indian Classical (E32). The commentary we have from coach seems to be on the one that took place in Berlin, not the one in Bad Kissingen.

Rubinstein-Nimzowitsch 1928, Berlin

- Game: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102434

- GM Avetik commentary: https://chessmood.com/course/chess-classical-games/episode/1575

Rubinstein-Nimzowitsch 1928, Bad Kissingen

- Game: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1004139

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The journey to the GM title

A very interesting podcast with one of our ChessMood Family members GM Kevin Goh Wei Ming.

https://omny.fm/shows/perpetual-chess-podcast/ep-184-kevin-goh 

Champions, check it out, you should find lots of interesting insights Kevin is sharing about his journey getting the GM title. 

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This was a very good podcast interview! Very inspiring!

WOW! This is a very nice interview!

Definitely =)

Opening

please give repertoire  against English opening and Catalan

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Avetik Sir is going to launch soon about these systems

Thanks for your classes! My victory is yours!!!

[Event "Hourly SuperBlitz Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/rO51xBGM"] [Date "2020.07.23"] [White "MagicIrair"] [Black "farzadalavi2015"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2020.07.23"] [UTCTime "08:09:05"] [WhiteElo "1601"] [BlackElo "2160"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+11"] [BlackRatingDiff "-11"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "B00"] [Opening "Nimzowitsch Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "lichess.org"] 1. e4 Nc6 { B00 Nimzowitsch Defense } 2. f4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Bc4 e6 5. Nf3 Bb4 6. O-O Nge7 7. d3 d5 8. exd5 Nxd5 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. Bb5 a6 11. Ba4 O-O 12. c3 Bd6 13. d4 b5 14. Bc2 g6 15. Qe1 Re8 16. Qg3 Qf6 17. Ne5 Bxe5 18. fxe5 Qe6 19. h4 b4 20. h5 bxc3 21. hxg6 fxg6 22. Bf5 Qe7 23. Bg5 Nxd4 24. Bxe7 Ne2+ 25. Kh2 Nxg3 26. Be6+ Kg7 27. Bf6+ Kh6 28. Kxg3 g5 29. Bf5 g4 30. Rh1# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0

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I feel you watched the Grand Prix attack first :) 

Anti Sicilian Part 5

After 5...bg7 

6 e5 nc6

7Qh4  Qh5 and you mentioned Qa5 with strong counterplay piece sacrifice

But my engine is showing Qa5 Bh6 and white is almost plus in all lines and in some variations, there are 2 piece sacrifices

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Hey man, can you please share questions with move orders so it will be easier for me and others to find answers for you. I do not remember all lines because it's tons of analysis so kindly provide the move orders so I can help you in better way thanks.

First of all Qh4 I wrote in my system as Question mark so it means there is something wrong with the move. Another thing is that after Qa4 it's almost impossible for black to find decent plans which coach is showing us.  Also all unlocked cloud engines are suggesting this Qa4 move as advantage not Qh4. On the other hand coach used paid cloud engines so their depth is far deeper than our normal engines.

Now the line which engine is showing here after Bh6 is truely unclear to my poor mind. I do not see how to take advantage of the position. 

Qh4 Qa5 Bh6 g5 !? Qxg5 Bxh6 Qxh6 Nxe5 0-0-0 Nxf3 gxf3. This is what engine is showing and I am wondering how to take advantage of this position. My normal vision says like ok king is stuck in the center but I don't see any ways to enter in his camp. At my level it's unclear position to me. On the other hand coach's move orders are clear and simple to apply and understand and I won plenty of games in this position with Qa4 because most players at 2100 level do not know the move d6 then Bg7 but they directly play Bg7 and lose after e5!!

I do not know your FIDE rating but even if you are 2300 elo player then coach still suggest you not to work on engines too much in case of openings prep like this. This will confuse you and you will face too much issue. When we check this kind of lines then sometimes we forget Main lines of our course and we play those  lines which are unfamiliar to us and even if they gives us advantage according to engine then in the end over the board we feel like I do not know what to do next. So, I suggest you to check engine only to see lines but focus on main lines well and they will give you excellent results.

Rest coach will explain because I do not see any dangerous thing in Qh4 line and even if engine said it's +1.5 advantage but still I do not understand it and I can't play unclear positions because I am still learning basics.

The Best of July and the Prizes

Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions! 
Welcome to the best games of the July contest.
Under this post, we invite you to post your best games that you will play in June. 

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 July: 

1st place - Koek Woltek
2nd place- Abhi Yadav
3rd place -Jeffrey Cobb
4th place- Arman Shahzamani
5th places - Kourush Asgari 

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1. 1. Chessmood's Caro Kann Exchange Variation course in which coach Avetik GM Grigoryan taught us a plan against caro kann in which this structure appears with Bf5
2. 2. Second resource for this game plan is a game by Li Quem Liem in which first he annoyed White's kingside and then he played the classical Qb6-d8-f8 and then Bh6 trading his dark squared bishop in Maroczy structure.
3. 3. Third plan I remembered was Fischer's playing Rg1-g4-g5 in hazhog pawn structure

https://lichess.org/41RC0XoaoLNt

Never Give Up gave me another winning point. After castles I should have taken on c6 with bishop then Qe1 but I forgot it and i lost a piece then I remembered two lines. Complicate position in SLP and Never give up and I complicated so much position for him and then I won in style using my tactics and his hanging and lack of coordinated pieces. Another point is I exploited so well his dark squares. Now he will always remember gxf5 will be a bad move heheehe.

https://lichess.org/V2Yy8eMDub13

Super and quick knockout. When he played g6 I was like Yum Yum. Then he played Qxc5 and I played Nd5 instantly and he was like can i grab the pawn like yasser seirawan then he thought no lets play d6 and see and I was like hurray finally I trapped one guy with Bb5 trap line hehehe.

https://lichess.org/gD8iwNRRVaBZ

e6 seriously then coach's move e5!!!  Crushed him by giving him no counterplay

https://lichess.org/D1d5Nsav3TzG

I wanted to play Kramnik's Qe6N but I forgot it during I played so I played Bb7 and I know plans for white but hoping to mess up something and then I messed up but still won a super wild game.

https://lichess.org/mQZ2uhYrxkUh

Lost this one but I bothered him so much with bishop pair

https://lichess.org/rNc73nNV/white#58

Coach told me not to learn new opening but I am a big fan of KID after I watched commented games so I turned this London System into KID structure and won so easily.

https://lichess.org/KJWk2GCWI1mp

I just started playing 3/2 instead of 5 minute blitz on chess.com and had this nice game. I just kept up the pressure till he cracked!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5094665846

Another good game at 3/2! My opponent played the French Defense, and I demonstrated why that is a bad idea to play against a ChessMood Pro member! (And I didnt even need to trap his knight like Kevin Hall!! Love ya Brother! haha)

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5097157711

Passive Nxd4 crushed with my fav. move  Qe3 Bd2 and 0-0-0 and final blow was cool.

https://lichess.org/MrbgCXWeB9HR

Winning with anty sicilian 2. Nc3

With sicilian as black

Power of bishop pair and weakness on a4 exploited. Do you think I did well coach?

https://lichess.org/JdBrvipE/black#61

Never mess up with Benko Gambit

https://lichess.org/JrIP1n38FaP8

Sicilian com Benko Play hehehe. 

https://lichess.org/kYopWL7o4VFm

What exactly do you guys look for ? I feel like my game was definitely better than a couple of the winners games from last month. Is it a combination against a strong player using the openings played on the site or something ? Im just trying to get a idea on what games to submit.

The Grand Prix attack is great!!

Another win against Sicilian

Winning with acc. dragon

Punishing opponent mistake in opening. Although many works needed for my own improvement.

Positional but still ok game. need some improvement but still better

https://lichess.org/Q6ghuOq1jV6I

What a sharp game and I forgot theory. and it make me angry because it's the first lecture Nxd4 I forgot

https://lichess.org/rbDbEN0wdofM

Unusual french king hunt. I dont know but I thought to play my old fav. opening french and I played it and white played wild chess and I won

https://lichess.org/bCFhHX1Z3da7

Nf6 direct allows d4 I remembered it once I made Be2 and second thing was Nd7 was free piece so once I forgot it I knew that I am tired so not playing well so in the end I won in an amazing way once he forgot a basic rule like never give file to opponent and never let your opponent to enter into seventh rank and then it was fun

https://lichess.org/kOYEdg2qfQoR

1. The power of Accelerated Dragon

2. Use the idea of Maroczy Bind.

This man seriously need to learn the art of trades hehehe.

https://lichess.org/X6v5tUyQxqR2

Pawn down SLP turned into my win hehehe.

https://lichess.org/s8ZTfMSxObn

If you miss your opponent's plans then u will lose def. Watch the b pawn man heheh but he forgot 

https://lichess.org/dduVCQAl2jA3

One blunder by me Nc3?? but rest I think I did ok

https://lichess.org/MiX7wW1DLbic

Most Funniest Game Ever

    My Opponents Kingside's Piece Never Came Out!!

https://www.chess.com/live#g=5104440646

Today I have seen the commented games 97, 98, 99. From those games concept I use the strong knight at e5 ( In my game e4). In the end a totally win end game. But I blundered due to time pressure and lost. Although I have lost, but this game gives me lot of confidence. 

Made one opening blunder but still I won
https://lichess.org/zxdtukaLoCqq

I play Black.

It was a 10 minutes game. 

I was in serious time trouble after move 30 and I missed the forced mate ... 

It's funny that I watched 3 King's Indian courses of GM Avetik the day before playing this game and I was inspired by those games.

Unfortunately I missed the forced mate ... but I won the game

After move 30 it is not chess ... : time trouble for both sides

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5096708032

https://lichess.org/kHoXsKymCqTe

Won slowly and suddenly.

Gave up a pawn for free on c3 then messed up but still won with black pieces

https://lichess.org/RsW55MxNrj5a

Cool GP Checkmate.

https://lichess.org/YoEKqcniInNG

Played chess without focus

https://lichess.org/wmdmj1QeCYA7

Caro kann black's mess up and lost a piece hehehe

https://lichess.org/omOrUIyPMAUQ

Very Nice Game I did Some Attack but..due to time pressure

i miss a clear win and I became exchange down!

but still, the endgame is very nice for me

but I lose in time!!!!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5109126092

I Took Advantage Of My Opponent Weak King In The Centre!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5109112367

King Side Attack With Pawn Strom!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5109213142

Very Good Game  ...I Had A Triple Battery Of H-File I Was Winning But Again Time Pressure!

but somehow i went into a drawn rook ending but  i blunder a complete rook(For Nothing)

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5109081171

Absolutely dominant my opponent.

Having some fun. My opponent trapped his queen himself. All the benefit is from ChessMood course.

My opponent blundered and I took the advantage. In the end clean sweep. 

SLP!! 

Win with my favorite Scotch

I am glad I played this game without any opening error.

https://lichess.org/dqK1jQCPM8yD

Def. missed an early win but exposed my king a lot in the end because I wanted to play the Short's King maneuver because all his pieces were paralysed so I wanted to place king to h6 and win but found no way. I smelt mate but bec of blitz missed the pattern Rxf7 but okay in classical game I won't miss the pattern because I will slow down my moves.

https://lichess.org/le3yBTYfOu5U

Tactics are everywhere!

Beatiful tactic at the end!

https://lichess.org/9WckpOoad6GZ

Victim of d4 poisoned pawn in french defence

This game I loved because of the following reasons.

1. Even though I studied one time this london system theory as black but I think I applied the right theory here.

2. Even though engines hates my Bf5 move attacking his bishop but I wanted to apply the concept of isolating opponent's piece on h2. Used the classical section game 1 by capablanca.

3. f6 was classic move prepares to play Bf8 after Rf7 

4. Super use of an open file after he gave me the file and then trapped his dancing rook on c5

5. Rest liquidation was tremendous and simple winning plan. 

I think this is a strategic masterpiece by  a 1465 elo player hehehe. Joking. I know I am not 1465 anymore.

https://lichess.org/ZdxEYnDW/black#60

Lucky escape against alekhine

https://lichess.org/CUlrAdevfA5J

Crushed the French Defense.

https://lichess.org/2UB7dI29rZJK

I cheated again coach. I played KID structure again in c4 lines heheheh. I love it and it gives me super winning chances at 2000 level. In middlegame there might be some mistakes but he messed up in complications too and I won

https://lichess.org/VkGPej8qphXe

Crazy Game!

1st I was Piece Up then

I lost my queen! and i won my opponent queen at the end I had 2 pieces for a rook but time .....  pressure I lost my knight then 

i won my opponent rook (i  am now a piece up) but due to i am playing fast enough and 

in the end, i lost my time but luckily I capture all my opponent pieces in time 

at the end 

it is a draw!!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5114271398

Quick Game!

I Got A Chance To Attack and Clear Finish!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5114259867

Simply one of my best games ever & with Chess Mood French Schlecter 3.Bd3 variation opening with 99.3% accuracy (chess.com analysis).

I trapped & won the Black Queen (or Black blundered it....) and had a good position, that kind of played itself & Black had little chance of counterplay. A dream game for me and so good, I was almost sure I had cheated, but I hadn't! It shows when the position is good, then good moves follow & by contrast for the opponent, when the position is not good, the position can just fall apart. I think this deserves a prize...enjoy!

I missed a simple win  when i took on e3 then just f4 wins

https://lichess.org/Jo4N9sqF/black#72

Should have won this game but I messed up and forgot Ne2 in the end

https://lichess.org/FNGIT7LoA21M

Then in anger I won in style another game hehehe

https://lichess.org/DfRJ67rBzGJ0

Won with black pieces. My opponent was 2200 bbut he showed violation of basic opening principles so I said man you are not Caruana or Magnus so let me follow what karpov suggests. Control the center and castles and then bring all the pieces towards the enemy and checkmate,.

https://lichess.org/VfyVu5Uq48x6

Among My Fav Game

Very Nice Pawn Storm In Kingside And

I Brought My Opponent's King Back to e1!!

And Very Awesome Mate!

https://www.chess.com/live#g=5119491552

Crushed pirc with grand prix.

https://lichess.org/OsblYCYszrx4

Lost in opening but won by SLP

https://lichess.org/jvIrJzieXYlC

Forgot the line by playing d6 first instead of Bg7 but still won.

https://lichess.org/bD5YoHzjAy5a

Wanted to play Scotch this time but opponent transpose to Philidor's defence.Won a good game with white pieces.

https://chess24.com/en/game/UimVHqxPSBWk0DiBsPxBWg

I messed the line after 5. Ne7. Still dominating the game

The power of Benko. 

Completely dominating against Sicilian

I blundered the advantage. But still win by time

Another good game against Scandenevian

I missed played the Benko Gambit. Instead 2. ...  c5 , I played 2. ...  d5. But keep cool myself and win.

 Exploit My Opponent King Side Weakness!

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Bishop and 3 pawns v/s Bishop and 2 pawns

https://www.chess.com/live#g=5124534173

Crushed a beginner with Accelerated Dragon but I don't know why he was 1900

https://lichess.org/cryYnj1x5MVr

Black should just resign after 2.Nc3 when facing a ChessMood Pro member

Just saying...

Using a small weakness(h6) in a dull opening to fight for an advantage

Wild chess but I won

https://lichess.org/dT8tKA2GxQzQ

Wild chess but I won

https://lichess.org/PFETzViybYjP

Rare hand slip in caro kann but still I won

https://lichess.org/RDQQNPyiUb0T

Won against 2200 with Black 

https://lichess.org/VABXeCboZmze

Crushed the d6

https://lichess.org/xC2Mk06HIenT

Maroczy bind and I won

https://lichess.org/zfPYvHrSBpIs

Super sharp I won with Black

https://lichess.org/toL2uyDx/black#38

Crushed the Scandi 

https://lichess.org/B7jpKKYs4J1N

Perfect attack with Scotch

I blundered the advantage. But in the end perfect end game with fox in the chicken cup technique from Silman's book.

Grand Prix style attack and my opponent clueless.

Again a perfect end game. Although I blundered in the end, but my opponent did not see.

Won a good game with white pieces:

https://chess24.com/en/game/pg2xZl9gQKy8JMg1F_OCAQ

I blundered the completely wining position and get almost lost position. But again keep cool and manage a nice SLP.

I am glad I remembered the line and concepts so I won this game smoothly

https://lichess.org/dCYLKJxYkeQo

Killed a youtube gambit with tactics 

https://lichess.org/wi0EPoGhppG1

Yes, he blundered a pawn but final mating net was  decent I think

https://lichess.org/TPPvXf40cPLu

Yes, I lost this one but I think my game was decent and in time trouble I made mistakes and lost. Normally I do not face time trouble at 2100 level but rarely i lost on time.

https://lichess.org/fuHMfH4msfbN

Killed the scandi

https://lichess.org/B7jpKKYs4J1N

One blunder. Missed mate in 5 on move 33 but I smelt it and I felt there must be a awin but in blitz i did not calculated lines well with Rh8 . He was annoyed and I won

https://lichess.org/ZlkZMaP6/white#65

https://lichess.org/mK7QzS5H/white

Hi,

I was white in the above game. I applied the ideas from the Crush the Pirc course and got a clearly winning position. I blundered at one point in the game [due to time pressure] where I was clearly winning but managed to win in the end!

Won with black pieces.It was nice game for me.

https://lichess.org/p5ipH92KdHty

Slow but won with anti sicilian

https://lichess.org/dESDAsv7/white

I played like a melon in won position

https://lichess.org/RiECTQFE/black#109

Won with white pieces.Trapped opponent queen.

https://lichess.org/Y4DzuQyreQ3A

I was crushing him but one wrong mouse click and I lost

https://lichess.org/ovaTNsFfnPfV

Unusual scotch destroyed

https://lichess.org/maV8VlSzaikE

Killed the London System with Chessmood openings

https://lichess.org/f8xUlYzkIbSi

Crushed the alekhine

https://lichess.org/5ZjEw19PFVEC

Use the idea of Benko Gambit

Clean Game!

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Very Nice Knight Maneuver!

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Deadly Attack!

https://www.chess.com/live#g=5134594455

Very Awesome Game!

I Was Pawn Down In The Opening  But I Not Lost My Hope

And Play On With Some Type Piece Activity!

And I Got Very Good Chance To Blow Up His Queen Side And Penetrate In The 2nd Rank!

And Ended With A Nice Tactics

https://www.chess.com/live#g=5134624204

Very Fantastic Game!

Got A Chance To Blow Up His Kingside!

And Game was Going On My Way But...

 There Sudden Problem ...There Was A Internet Failure (Not From My Side)

And I Lost My Crucial Time(1min In A Blitz)

and I was Left with 30 sec and winning position

and Very Nicely I Gave A Decisive Attack+Very Nice Tactics(Quick Attack)

and Finally, with 14 sec, I Won The Game!!!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5134658006

Bishop pair advantage on open board. Traded queens and won in amazing way!

https://lichess.org/OGsSW3v5p22Z

Caro kann exchange and won

https://lichess.org/VQOghFWhx1fX

Playing the Grand Prix Attack against Anish Giri! Of course i was worse but was very lucky to win during time scramble :) (He was streaming also)

Another lucky flag... The moves are of bad quality but juz wanted to share the joy :)

My opponent just crashed

Complete domination

Another win against 1. d4

Quick Game!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5138724795

Pretty clean win against WIM in accelerated dragon https://lichess.org/HBiDWkGhvpln

Win with Scotch with great accuracy

https://www.chess.com/live#a=2172987

Fight between chessmood members. 

Slow and simple win

https://lichess.org/85PE6btD6670

Killed Scandi

https://lichess.org/LDEEowrIZXeT

Accidental moves but won

https://lichess.org/2ODv9yVYEZx8

13 move win with Black Pieces

https://lichess.org/ZXRdHnnvoque

Killed the pirc in positional way

https://lichess.org/NAdx2uF1NYgB

Won with Modern Maroczy 

https://lichess.org/faP6hgKjf7R8

Bishop Pair advantage and win

https://lichess.org/OGsSW3v5p22Z

Losing game SLP works. He missed winning Nb5 tactic not me hehehe.

https://lichess.org/JgtFCsRa/black#42

Misplayed middlegame and still won by time

Anti c4 punished

https://lichess.org/EEYNkfUrY8Vd

Few blunders but breakthrough was fine and then again losing blunder. Anyways ok blitz chess

Clean Game!

"Never In Trouble"

https://www.chess.com/live#g=5153725681

Awesome Game!!

-Very Weird Pawn Structure(Pawn Block)

-I Just Penetrate In His Position!

Very Exciting Game!!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5153754696

Clean Game/Quick Game

I Just Blow Up His QueenSide!

And Finish!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5158642352

Very Nice Game!

I Gave a Very Interesting Sacrifice!

12...Rb2!!!

And Just I Won A Piece And Just Finish!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5158608398

Simplicity is the key to beauty. 

Agree ??

I play White:  https://lichess.org/ArpbQ6NYzXiU

I play White:  https://lichess.org/AvVMFyLXXj11

I play Black: https://www.chess.com/live/game/5223176316

Messed line in opening, but still Grand Prix style attack is very effective.

Check out this #chess game: Nywolf vs MisterShankly - https://chess.com/live/game/5162171753

Another Nc3 Sicilian crush. Went for an attack.

My opponent just kept finding new threats, and I stayed calm and found solutions. Handling opponents initiative! #HOI

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5163087320

Playing against a strange oprning after 1. e4 which seems like French, Queen's indian and Nimzo Indian at the same time. Although instead of 20. Qxa8 I should have played 20. Qg2+

Some blunders but finally I won

https://lichess.org/Y7tFq77jFpSJ

Thought to play like capablanca but in the end i blundered

https://lichess.org/urgI4oxQ/black#66

I am getting better at these endgames :)

https://lichess.org/2q06bM1P/white#49

Scary Game!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5168089515

Rook Battery In Middle Game

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5168076952

Funny Game!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5168240838

Good Game!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5168179755

I crashed Sicilian regularly .

A fine win in the pirc defence

Equal position in opening and in the end perfect endgame.

Attack, attack and attack. My opponent is crushed.

Crushing with Sicilian in style.

Punish your opponents mistakes! 8 move miniature, he doesnt even survive the opening

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5173504536

Among My Best Game!

I Like The Knight Maneuver!

And I Love The Final Blow(Combination)!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5173509044

Positional & Crazy  Game!/My Fav Game

Full Domination!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5173471152

Saving a completely lost position and winning punishing 2 of my opponent's mistakes in the Larsen's opening. I tried to bring my knight on d6 as I had pawns on d5,c6,b7 but after a few moves, I realised it wouldn't work.

Winning a good end game

My opponent blundered as he use the pin on queen. In the end nice check mate

Funny tactic on move 27! 

Best Game! 

Tactical Game!!

Slow Attack!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5178674684

Semi-Good Game

I was in Not So Good Position but...

I Found Some Counterplay/Small Attack

Turn Out To Be The Final Blow!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5178692881

My Opponent MisCalculate "A Series Of Exchange" Ending Up In A Exchange Down In The Opening!

And I Slowing  Attack & Won A Full Rook!

And Finally Giving "Very Nice Mate With Bishop"

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5178704419

Grand Prix,

1999 vs 2186  applying knowledge from the free opening course

https://lichess.org/7QJaSPrE/white#1

The shortest online game of my chess carrer: trapping opponent's knight in Nimzowitch defence.

Perfect Benko with ...  f5 end game idea to make white d5 pawn weak.

Quick knock out against Philidor

Good end game.

Smooth Game!

Took Full Advantage Of My Opponent's Undeveloped Piece!

Full Domination!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5183164339

"Just In Time"

No So Good Game!

Equal...Then I am Winning... Then I Was Losing...Then We Were Both In Ultra Time Pressure(Secs)

And Then He Flagged But... I Didn't Have Sufficient Material So Finally...

Draw!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5183213323

My Opponent Played Very Well But.....

He Wasnt Fast Enough...

He Had Some Pressure Against Me But Some How I Managing Myself... Then He Was In Time Pressure ..and  At End He Miss A Tactic(OfCource Due To Time Pressure)

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5183184664

Crushed the morra gambit kind of opening

https://lichess.org/eSkywFxXxk7u

Misplayed a bit but then won the same coloured bishop endgame bec his all pawns were placed on DS.

https://lichess.org/wDJKVZ9R9B9M

Crushed the Smith Morra Gambit.Only one blunder Qa5 I made

https://lichess.org/zL1GJdQMnSYs

Crushed the unusual scotch

https://lichess.org/0i7dzgXNtSvZ

Positional Anti Sicilian

https://lichess.org/Haw5OWyb04aO

Misplayed a bit but then I managed to make a draw

https://lichess.org/vPFGJDVGix6o

Know your classics!!!! Thanks Mr. Morphy!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5187683485

My daily G15+10 was an interesting game against the London System. I misplayed the move order in the opening (9... cxd4!) but still got a nice position, and applied pressure till my opponent blundered. 

Cool Queen Trap heheh.

https://lichess.org/G61zazmFLX8Z

Passive against Sicilian wins

https://lichess.org/uZfkcIMwHuNc

https://lichess.org/UNTivDr2O33m

https://lichess.org/6HH3gQTu0yEh

https://lichess.org/dZwyFFxODJAw

Crushed a 1500 with Nc3

https://lichess.org/aWXVYec7mSBO

Crushed unusual GP

https://lichess.org/tN7Ic8lm8l3N

Misplayed opening but then in the middlegame used his DS and won 

https://lichess.org/TcbPAP1utCVR

One blunder but then I won

https://lichess.org/UoDozUh8OIXC

Crushed passive scotch 

https://lichess.org/LdBFG9lkZwWH

won against london  system

https://lichess.org/XJyF9t6QjUio

SLP

https://lichess.org/FvPXnyRitlmv

Crushed the pirc in classical variation using tricks by allowing Nxe4

https://lichess.org/lTfyMkiN/white#31

win with Benko Gambit

https://lichess.org/qGBwvPyzd6ee

Amazing game of the day for me because I love the maneuver Rd4 follow by b4 and Ra3 winning.

On move 28 when he made Qe8 I felt like how to breakthrough in winning position then I remembered the idea of using b  file like Popov did in his game and also used caro kann structure ideas and then I found an imaginative idea like place rook on a file and win then b4 came in my mind and I converted this imagination into reality.

https://lichess.org/FHtDdG6WtQsI

Even though I am not good calculator. I am like novice in calculation but due to my basic tactics work and ChessMood's streams my imagination is on the next level. 

Using opponent mistake in the opening

Whole game I was better but in the end made some mistakes but good thing was that his pieces have no squares to play and I picked up his all pawns and won. Best thing was my imagination and handling of space advantage is improving

https://lichess.org/4f2GZq8eOPSL

Some people like to give up the Queen in French Trap line, hehehe

https://lichess.org/6uqGhVOgudEK

Complex Benko Gambit but I won

https://lichess.org/vSymyz2als5d

Punished opponent mistake in the opening.

Attacking with Scotch. I sacrifice exchange to get completely winning  position. One moment I missed mate in 2, but still easy win.

I got very good position in the opening due to the ChessMood opening. But blundered and give the game

Messed in opening . But right mood got another win.

https://lichess.org/uy17XMGr/black

Crushed Delayed Alapin using tricks

https://lichess.org/okOvwQtv/black

My opponent is clueless.

Nice win.

SLP or WLP !!  What a line, " It is not too late to resign" !

Crushed the delayed alapin

https://lichess.org/okOvwQtvtOdo

Win against IQP in the end

https://lichess.org/gsLbQXhVkeDQ

Caro kann endgame after Qxb3 axb3 won

https://lichess.org/nR0NDrqQFIPI

True remembering openings and ideas matters but sometimes if you face an unknown move you have to play with logic and you have to trust your idea. I faced Qb6 not covered in course I think so I thought it's bad and later I exploited his dark squares and he did not even got any chance to play!

https://lichess.org/Y4i43LVz9ZBK

Saw only once philidor so need to recheck my lines. Here I thought to play better endgame so I did. On move 28th my bishop trapping started so nice bishop trap game hehehe.

https://lichess.org/YBP8z0Zm5CLW

I beat a NM using scotch: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/5199788336

Among My Fav Game!

I Like 2 Things About This Game!

1st- I Like How I Play In This Game! (PositionalAnd Domination)

2nd- While I Was Playing This Game My Laptop Was Damn Lagging!.....Still, I Manage  It!

(So You Might See That I Played 8.Bd2 And Then 9.Be3(I Wanted To Play Directing Be3 But Suddenly My Mouse Left And Place It To Bd2  While I Was Placing It To Be3).....

And Again At 40.Rc5 Then 41 Rd5(Luckily Nothing Very Bad/Wrong Occur)

PRO Tip--- When You Have Lagging Laptop(What I had)...

Then You Should Click The Intension Piece/Pawn(Eg. E Pawn) Then Click The Intension Square(e4)...

But Most Of Us(Including Me)...Drag And Drop The Piece But...

There Is a Good Chance Of Something Going Wrong Due to Lagging Laptop(That Is The Same Thing The Occur At Move 8 And 40)

So You Can Use This Idea ...This Help Me A Lot  During This Game)

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5202200378

I blundered my advantage and in the end win a complete drawish rook end game.

Nice win!!

Played nice on the g file then misplayed in the end but won on time

https://lichess.org/51ziWqrrDsyz

Crushed a 2100+ in 21 moves heheheh with Nc3. I won't say oh! my opening was right but I played with structural ideas. Issue in memorising lines at my level is that people never play main lines. On the other hand if I play daily against chessmood players or gms then I wont mess up lines bec  main lines will become fresh in my mind. Anyways decent positional play/

https://lichess.org/DCQWg4F5krQB

Positionally crushing Nxd4 Scotch.

Even if I get this position in real life I will play Bxh6 for various reason. 

1, My pawns are rolling down the board.

2. Black is not active in the queenside so I have time.

3.  Black have piece traffic jam so pieces are like stuck so I am free to do anything. 

Rest coach will tell about it heehehe.

https://lichess.org/RDL63JPr/white#29

Mini Magnus Endgame technique hehehe joking.

Its funny because in the rook endgame I knew my winning pawn and he was like pawn grabber moving his 2 pawns and both pawns had not saved his life hehehe

https://lichess.org/s9CnqQqR/black#63

Crushed the closed sicilian like Gabu sir explained in streams. Queenside play and keep knight on g8!

https://lichess.org/gF5YZBcI/black#52

Feeding the Dragon!

Power of hidden tactics killed him hehehe.

https://lichess.org/B5zf20ZE/white#33

    I have just enrolled as a pro member yesterday

Although the opening played does not match your recomendations, but I feel that this is a great game to watch 

I like to play the Scotch game!     

Mixed up ideas of Najdrof and dragon heheeh. I wanted to play one game in the morning with najdrof to see how much I can handle things and my unusual move orders bothered him and in the end he also blundered by giving up his dark squared bishop after  he forgot my Bxf1 trick.

According to engine I made blunders at 2 point and I did saw them after I made them but ok without knowing an opening I can't expect perfect chess hehehe but still ok game!

https://lichess.org/1tc3uHtgs1mu

Positional Game with Knight on d6!

https://lichess.org/aGh4ScXV6rU3

Crushing him with Nc3! but made mistakes in endgame because I was playing against his time heheeh, My intuition says that I played the right opening moves and no mistakes in opening. He had to play e5 so he can enter into Qb4N line but he forgot and then I remembered this kind of Ne4 from streams and also from last month's best games forum

According to engine. A lot tactical miss by me but no worries I am learning them and I wont miss them in future. 

https://lichess.org/QSwYJmgA/white#26

A complicated opening position which leads to a disastrous attack

After my opening mess up in the beginning of this month I revised the lines again ans this time I played the right move Nxd4 follow by Nb5 and I was prepared against both Bd7 or a6 Nd4 Qb6 piece sac lines

I am glad I did fine in opening. Yeah in the middlegame I mess up but I am playing online only for opening prep because I know once I will play super slow real life chess I wont miss simple tactics like I am missing online. Because for me online play is for opening prep that's all

https://lichess.org/jmZQkNwPa1FH

I wanted to sac my rook in the queenside so bad so I did., In the end he wanted to show like oh I can play well with bad pawn formations so I said ok let me target your pawn on f4 and I played nice dark squared strategy and later winning too but then I messed up but won on time heheeh.

Learning basics of exchange sacrifices hehehe.

https://lichess.org/Bgau5mBN/black#50

Series of exchanges in Scotch game. Lost the chance to win earlier by tactics (when I spotted the bishop deflection it was late). Nice 3+0 super blitz. Instead of 10. h4 it was better to play e5 threatening Nc7+ and in the last move Rxh7 was going to be checkmating attack. 1 blunder + 2 mistakes by Stokfish 10.

Crushing with Accelerated dragon in only 13 moves by winning my opponent's rook on a1!!

Power of two bishops in the endgame on an open board heheh.

https://lichess.org/7Ae4i5k7IGD5

Applied concept of Leningrad Dutch which I learnt as a beginner. It was not sound opening but taught me a lot maneuver like Kf7 and a lot more things so in super closed game I won his queen after he made a blunder by placing rook on g1 then the whole game.

https://lichess.org/SbtTcis9/black#92

Theoretically I know I did something wrong but final ideas was decent

https://lichess.org/WBBXiFadY0z7

I found g5. I felt glad about it. I also knew he made a terrible mistake by playing h4. I can say it h4?? Then slowly I used his weaknesses and when he thought he can play f3 g4 then I used the idea LPTO ( Loose Pieces Drop Off) so he lost everything.

https://lichess.org/ysUprs6gAS4j

Awesome Game!

In Middle Game I Miss -Calculated And I Lost A Knight!

But I "Never Resign" And Play On With Some Hope(Because I Had 3 Pawns For Knight After Some Exchange  Still...Knight Is Knight!) In The Endgame!

And Then I Improve My King And Got The Entry To Kingside!!!

And Then I Got Drawish Position( 2 Pawns For A Knight!)

But Still, Some Try Fo Win Was There!

And Then My Try Covented To Success

And I Won!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5217220423

Antisicilian with 2.Nc3 part 2 Mistaken in the opening and saving a comletely lost middlegame being a piece down. Skewer tactic applied. Was going to finish with Anastasia's mate.

One of the messiest game ever in blitz. I never played this kind of chess before but slowing moving towards it. Hope to do well in classical games too but doing ok in blitz.

https://lichess.org/Xuc6co85/white#38

Almost lost more than 90 points in last week. I am working a lot on middlegame so I do not know it's side effect of grasping too much in a little amount of time or what. So today in this game I decided to pretend like I am giving a commentary and people are watching on my fb page and I chose 5 min time control and in the commentary session my opponent made a blunder and I won a piece and later I won heheheh.

So Commentary during playing was good idea for me hehehe.

https://lichess.org/VsEy9qlKGsKl

Playing against Rossolimo without having watched the course yet. Realising the advantage in a closed and positional middlegame and in the final rook and pawn endgame. Taking advantage of my opponent's Re4 and h6. 1 blunder and 1 mistake according to engine.

I was  a bit rtired and it was last game of the day for me. I played nice game and in the end forgot that his knight can capture on b7. I saw it but I thought knight cant come to b7 from d6 hehehe but anyways one sided game. Structure concepts and Classical game 1 Isolating opponent's piece paid off

https://lichess.org/KiAvtxS4RaJD

In Morphy style I remembered the classic game in which the final combination started with Qd6+ and later mate by Ra3 I think so I followed same plan. He sacked his piece. I said ok give it to me and you will get only g2 pawn and then I won heheh.

https://lichess.org/wk89U6lk0ju4

Advantage from the very beginning. 

My sac was right but as it was blitz so I made terrible follow up but then he gave his queen but sad thing was that he played whole game and even in the end he was doing SLP and my pawns checkmated him so well hehehe.

https://lichess.org/03ehkIoX/white#36

I got everything in Benko Gambit. Active pieces, Nice pawn lever c4!! what I need more hehehe. Tactics? Yeah, I knew he will fell into it and he did. I did not wished for that but he did so I won another game in Benko Gambit.

https://lichess.org/XMau7NANdf3a

I was happy to play an endgame with  pawn up position. But my opponent said no. My king is amazing in the center then I showed him no sir, I know you are violating the basics so let me annoy you and in the end he missed Nf2#

https://lichess.org/IkAqwytoIRO7

An exciting game against a strong GM

 Nice Attacking Game!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5222242568

I Like To Mention That  I Love My Opponent's Attitude Of Playing!

By 30th Move, I Was Clear Rook Up...I Thought It Done(My Opponent Will Resign Now! )

But I Was Wrong! My Opponent Try All His Will To Try Something !!!

And He Did Succes And Gave Him Not A Easy Win!

I Love That Attitude Of "Never Giving Up"

Passive play against Accelerated Dragon is 0-1 hehehh. Just one miss instead of Bxa3 c4 was winning.

https://lichess.org/WmHCWpcuGT6k

This game is an example of why Ra7 maneuver is super strong. He blundered by opening up the e file and later I won with tactics hehehe.

According to engine I made some mistakes but I liked it eheheh.

https://lichess.org/C3VA7WMbBv0d

Had a decent position but then messed up but in the end power of bishop pair gave me the point

https://lichess.org/fz76ESXs/black#46

Crushed Positionally unusual scotch line. I thought to Anish Giri's game during I played this one and tried to apply his concept but in the kingside not in the queenside heheeh

https://lichess.org/jilDyQRN4WbR

Hi, please check out this game. Maybe the best game I ever played- I think all went according to the GP attack video part 1, the queen sacrifice and capturing with bishop later:

https://www.kurnik.pl/p/?g=ch491016808#36

Structural win after  a long time someone played this bad pawn formation so I am glad I won by fixing(gabu sir's recommendation) then win!

https://lichess.org/qSQ6Zd6e/white#75

Messed up in the opening.But I save a completely lost position

Finally got blood in Benko in style after a long wait!

Now my funny saying is I am Proud to be a Benko Gambitian hehehe.

https://lichess.org/fZTWVmUHKeep

My First NM Who I Won With!!!

Clean Game!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5222210624

Among Most Beautiful Game I Ever Played

Complete Domination!!!

Clean Game!

https://www.chess.com/game/live/5226518539

Benko gambit , exchange sacrifice on b6 , putting a very monster knight on d4 ( by playing the typical Ne8,Nc7,Nb5 manoeuvre ) and slowly outplaying a strong opponent !

https://lichess.org/y3vO2vlBDCGp

2nd NM!!! Who Defeated!!!!

Interesting Game!!!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5226571009

again using the grandprix attack against the sicilian , sacrificing everything everywhere and finally checkmate with pawn !

https://lichess.org/OeSmahhLNylV

win over GM

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5178059239

My opponent is crashed badly.

Oh! Benko!!

Nice win using double pin.

Got out of trouble applying Li's Qf8 and Qh6 move!

https://lichess.org/6W2NZaxRyd2z

Robbed!

GM Avetik...did you and the panel even consider my game?

I haven't looked at the others, but my game is outstanding for me & deserves better!

I now know this competition is fixed as none of my great games have ever had a mention here & I will not submit any more! COGRO- Right Mood Right Move ;-)

Played a perfect caro kann atttack

Chessmood simply brought the best in me

Being a pro member since 5 days and this result is simply unbelievable

Cute Game!
https://www.chess.com/live/game/5231367152

Find my nice game in the accelerated dragon

https://www.chess.com/live/game/5227884609

:)

I am getting fond of Benko Gambit. My second game and a nice victory with a nice knight sacrifice and mate. It is just so easy to play with black. Quite different from my beloved Slav ;-)

If it has worked against a 2018 lichess rated opponent I think it really can be a main weapon against 1.d4 2.c4 and opponents of any strength. I have to give it a try in slow 90+30 OTB games once the Madrid League begins in December. By then I will know the theory well.

This has been my last game of July:

Hello ChessMood Family, hello champions! 
This month we got 300+ games! 

Just one thing guys, this is the contest of best games. 
No need to post here absolutely all the games you played, or the games you won. 

Let's see the winners. 

The winner of the best games of July becomes Moemedi Machobane for his impressing attack in Acc. Dragon variation. Moemedi also raised his classical rating with 62 points in 1 tournament! 

The 2nd prize goes to Devansh Shah for his crushing the Caro Kann. 

The 3rd prize goes to Rob Dzedzic for his Grand Prix attack! 

The 4th prize goes to Piotr Urbanski, for his Queen Sacrifice! :) 

The 5th prize goes to Arman Shahzamani for his nice attack.  

The prizes will be sent to your accounts. 

Thanks for all the participants. 
Keep the good job and COGRO (Constant Growth), 
and see you in the contest of August! 

How to learn from Positional games?

As you all know Chessmood recommends the book called “Grandmaster Chess Strategy: What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson’s Positional Masterpieces” by Jurgen Kaufeld and Guido Kern positional skills. How to work on this book well? I saw only two games and I got a position in which it's hard to find a plan for black. For example in first game after move 21 it was so so hard to see any good move for black and I guessed the maneuver well and in the second game I did found Rc4! a nice move to gain control over the c file. Then what, after that I saw all the ideas well for white but hard to see any ways to handle the position as Black. 

The power of Ulf's games is that it's so hard to understand  and when he reach him total domination then it's tough to find any move for his opponent. 

I use a board but I start seeking ideas after move 10 and I try my best to see plus and minus but i cant calculate ahead like others can.

So, can I go through the book by placing pieces on board and go through every game and grasp concept or I need to analise it? The problem is I am in a situation in which I do not know what is the Art of Analysis so it's tough to work.

Any suggestions are welcome.

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Major update in the "Commented Classical Games" course

Hey, Champions! 

We have a major update in the "Commented Classical Games" course. Added 7 more games and the In" course. 
Added 7 more games and the Introduction part, so you'll see how to work with the course correctly. 

Also, we've created a quiz for you! 
https://chessmood.com/quiz/commented-classical-games  

So, after you finish the course, you can test if you remember the most important ideas from the games. 
Also, you can try to solve the quiz before watching the games. It's gonna be good training! 

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Leela found a better move in the Benko Gambit Course?

While checking the 12.Re1 line in the Benko course, in the minute 4:47, it is not recommended 19...Qxa1, because of the weakness of the black King after 20.Bxe5 and the threat of Rxg6 and mate.

However, checking with the engine (I do not like using engines for opening study but I like to know what they propose) Leela was proposing 19...Qxa1 because after 20.Bxe5, there is ...Rxf2+ 21.Kxf2 Rxa2+ (-+) and white has problems.

In the course, 19... exf4 was proposed. Which one do you thnok is better, 19... Qxa1 or 19...exf4?

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Hehe :) 
Well the answer is, that there is 0.01% percent of the time you'll ever get here. 
The variations I showed there were just examples :)