Best way to prepare for a tournament within a short period

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4 days and low (sub 1500?) rating. Forget repertoire, or at least anything significantly new in that area.

Make sure you learn basic pawn endings, basic rook endings, practise check mating patterns, tactics, the openings you know: check you can still get to a middlegame in the main lines (i.e. avoid the traps) and have some idea of what to do (a few model games).

That's probably it. You'll win games based on outplaying and at the level you are describing, it'll be tactical and following the basics to get a good position will give you a chance. Where you lose it'll be more likely a trap or missing tactics.

Chessmood repertoire takes months to work through properly even if you are full time.

Doubts in Jobava line for black 7.Qd2!? lecture 36

Hello,

Wondered how to play against Jobava for black as I sometimes try it as white and really have my doubts about this line, imo it's just better for white. Can GMs prove me wrong? :)

EDIT: seems, this has been asked in other thread already, my bad 

https://chessmood.com/forum/pro-members/london-system-5h4-h5-6nf3-bg4-7qd2

but still need confirmation what is the best plan for black, maybe advanced video explaining it should be made?

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Hi Paulius

Avetik had this position before, and the below game was played

[White "bangchess21"][Black "Avetik_ChessMood"][Result "0-1"][WhiteElo "2710"][BlackElo "2804"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 Bg7 5. h4 h5 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Qd2 Bxf3 8. gxf3 e6 9. e4 c6 10. Bg5 Qa5 11. O-O-O Nbd7 12. Kb1 b5 13. Nxd5 Qxd2 14. Nxf6+ Bxf6 15. Rxd2 Bxg5 16. hxg5 f6 17. gxf6 Nxf6 18. Bh3 Ke7 19. c4 b4 20. Rg1 Rhg8 21. d5 cxd5 22. exd5 exd5 23. Re1+ Kf8 24. cxd5 Rd8 25. d6 Rg7 26. Re6 Ne8 27. Rd4 a5 28. Rf4+ Rf7 29. Rd4 Rxf3 30. d7 Ng7 31. Rc6 Rxh3 32. Rc8 Ne6 33. Re4 Kf7 34. Rxe6 Rxd7 35. Rcc6 Rd2 36. Rf6+ Ke7 37. Rxg6 Rh1+ 38. Rc1 Rxc1+ 39. Kxc1 Rxf2 40. Rg5 h4 41. Rh5 Rh2 42. Rxa5 Kf6 43. Rb5 h3 44. Rxb4 Rg2 45. Rh4 h2 46. a4 Ke5 47. a5 Kd5 48. b4 Rg1+ 49. Kb2 h1=Q 50. Rxh1 Rxh1 51. Kb3 Kc6 52. Kc4 Rh4+ 53. Kc3 Kb5 54. a6 Kxa6 55. Kb3 Kb5 56. Kc3 Rc4+ 57. Kd3 Kxb4 58. Ke3 Kc5 59. Kd3 Kd5 60. Ke2 Rd4 61. Ke3 Ke5 62. Kf3 Re4 63. Kf2 Kf4 64. Kg2 Re2+ 65. Kf1 Kf3 66. Kg1 Re1+ 67. Kh2 Rd1 68. Kh3 Rh1# {Avetik_ChessMood won by checkmate} 0-1

@Paulius_Juknis

Hi Paulius,

I share your reservations about this line and the theory is still developing, but when last I checked my files I concluded that Black's best piece placement was to put the Knight on c6 and regroup it to e7 if necessary, this seems the most harmonious and reliable setup to me if you choose to enter this 5...h5, 6...Bg4 line as Black. Let me know what you think: 

NEW ARTICLE: How to Inspire Your Chess Student

Hey Champions!
We have this topic in our blog: 

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A very good article again coach & congratulations to you and your student Prin.

As you say, this does not work for everyone and certainly not for me, as from my experience here, I know I get little support for beating much higher rated opponents than myself (which I have done quite a few times) on this site.

At first, this demotivated me (natural I think), but I decided to rise to the challenge and try & make it motivate & inspire me and now I am working on that! Let us see where that gets me and then we can discuss the neuroscience of it later! Right Mood, Right Move COGRO! 

The most instructive moments of the streams

Hey, champions! 
As you know, we do (or at least try to do :D ) our best to help you with your growth. 

To help you memorize variations and more importantly understand them better, in the last months we did a huge job :) 

We downloaded all the streams, checked the games, and managed to cut the instructive games. 
Then we'll add them to the courses in separate sections. 

So after watching for example the Scotch Game course, you can watch a few hours of streams, and see all the variations in practice. 

Hopefully, it will help you very much.  
If you have any feedback or idea, you're welcome :) 


With love,
ChessMood team 

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Thanks for all the work you do!

This is going to be superb idea coach

IoI... that's great! Thank you very much! 

Looking forward to this. Will be a great help. Thank you!

Wow, that's amazing! Good call!

Fantastic idea, sure would help in cementing key ideas.

awesome~~~

Moodcoins

Hello, I am wondering how to use my collected moodcoins ($19) to buy a cup.

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Hello Marcel,

It is possible to exchange moodcoins for courses, not for buying merchandising from the shop. Once you collect enough moodcoins you can have courses in exchange, this way we provide a chance to get access to our contents to everyone genuinely interested in learning from Chessmood regardless of their income. 

Themes for openings

An idea about themes just got in my mind. I thought it will be so fun if you cover themes which comes in CM openings, For example maneuvers such as QB6-Rfc8- Qd8. in maroczy, f4 f5 attack in grand prix, e6 then e5 in grand prix by white. Something like this. Also an idea such as Bb2 Ba3 Bc5 in maroczy.

Like this f you also make some videos of common themes in cm lines then may be it will be useful for everyone.

You can do it apart from model games sections. You can call it may be typical themes sections. It can be endgames or middlegame themes or openings themes

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Time management Training?

Hi, like chessmood provides all types of playing tournament but can you guys also provide the time related events . I mean events like white have 5 mins to win and black have 6 mins to draw. Time pressure training we will do in them,. This kind of events will teach us how to handle real life time pressure and how to find good moves under time pressure

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I think it is not possible to set tournaments like that on chess.com and lichess.

better would be to work with a partner

Hello Abhi,

This may be reasonable, but for players who want to have training like this. You can try to find a sparring partner willing to practice in time trouble conditions.

Personally, I don't think the format you suggest sounds very common from a black perspective to make a draw. It reminds some reversed armageddon rules :)

Pessimist, Optimist, and Chess Journey

 There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens. —Yvon Chouinard

 I have two questions for you :)
 1. Are you a pessimist or an optimist?
 2. Are you in control of your chess journey?

 Looking forward to seeing your honest answers :)

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1. Have always been a lazy optimist

2. Currently I think I am in charge of my chess journey. Mostly thanks to ChessMood’s advice to plan the journey.

On Calculation vs Intuition

I have just watched Classical Attacking Game #4 (Knorre vs Chigorin)

My question is: 

Do you think Chigorin calculated until the end all the variations that GM Avetiks shows us or do you think that he calculated just the most important ones and he trusted in his intuition?

In these attacking games with early sacrifices I always wonder how much is calculation and how much is intuition based on experience and acquired patterns

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I feel like they do not calculate everything. I feel that they calculate at certain level let's say 20 ply or 25 ply then they try to judge that position and due to their chess knowledge, intuition (developed by a lot study of patterns and classics) and playing experience they are able to judge the resulting positions well and they go for sac.

Sergio, no way he calculated all. 
Mostly such sacrifices are based on intuition. 
How to develop intuition, we'll have a separate article, but in a few words, just analyze a lot. 
With becoming a better chess player, your intuition also improves. 

How do you think at chess?

In the book 'How to think at chess'. It's suggested one way of training is to look through positions and record your thinking out loud.

I'm wondering if this could be an interesting exercise to try in a group to compare how different players approach games or positions; the aim being to identify improvements or blind spots in the thinking process.

Anyone interested in giving that a go?

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Sure, I will be interested

Me ready.

See the video in the classical games post a few hours ago. I think choosing some games and recording thinking there to compare results as a group is an interesting approach.

I just need some spare time.

I'm also interested in this.

Classical games

Sir can you recommend any method (apart from replay training ) to study classical games so that we can remember it for a long time 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Tw1iNDfas

This can help you a lot! Check it out!

Good way to work through games.

The next question is should you take notes / diagrams to return to, or just keep going through games.

Possibly could do with an article on discovering why your moves were weaker (I work with an engine if there wasn't analysis to flick between my and the computer's lines until I understand the difference). This also is for analysing own games - such as in my post Why do we lose.

Also I think there may be benefit in recording (using free sound capture software) your thinking out loud so that you can better understand how you came to a conclusion and what you missed. As mentioned this could be interesting to compare between players to learn how others think to see your own blindspots. Perhaps this video's method is the way to carry that out.

Qb6 d3 French

E4 E6 ; D4 D5 : Bd3 d/e  ; Bx e4 Nf6 : Bf3 C5 : NE2 Nc6 ; BE3  QB6 ( ! ?) 

Classic French move Qb6 but what is suggested here now ?

p/s No idea why type-face is so small !!  

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Yep, been having some games online when black does play Qb6

Some investigations from my pgn

Hello Keven,

As others mentioned I recommend 8.Nbc3. Taking on b2 is bad, we can simply play Rb1 followed by the castle. Whites compensation will be more than enough, much ahead in development only for a pawn.  Otherwise if black doesn't take on b2 Qb6 becomes bit useless.

Question about the Sicilian Defense course

In the attached position

(after 1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 g6
5. Nc3 Bg7
6. Be3 Nf6
7. Bc4 O-O
8. Bb3 Re8
9. Nxc6 dxc6
10. f3 Qc7
11. O-O)

The suggestion is Nh5, but I don't understand why is that.. won't we need to go back after 12. f4? This position is not clear for me at all to be honest.

Thanks!
Regards,
Hugo

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Hello Hugo,

I checked the position you are saying, f4 is not a big issue, but if you want to avoid it you can play with b5 instead of Nh5 trying to obtain a space on Queenside!

French Bd3 3..dxe4 with Nd5 line question and others

Good day!

Learning this amazing Bd3 vs french course and I have a question about section 3 (dxe4) 13 video Nd5.

Though this line with Qxg2 seems dodgy for black to say the least still after entering into my rep pgn and checking with engine, black has this strange 12...f6 move and gets some compensation with very messy position.

Any advise what to do with white? Txs.

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Also while watching 3...Nc6 another question, what if after 4.c3 black takes dxe4 and 5.Bxe4 Nf6 like a delayed dxe4, what then for white? Engine shows something like  6.Bg5, but I'm not convinced and definitely dont want to take 6.Bxc6

HI Paulius!

12...f6 is a messy option for black, which will almost never be faced and is super complex. In real no much to be worried about. Before taking on a8 I liked playing d5 for white giving pawn away in that redaction and only then go after a8 rook.

Scandinavian Defence 2...Nf6 line

Hi ChessMood Family,

I recently faced 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.4.Bc4 b5 5.Bb3 Bg4!? This continuation is not analysed in the courses, and when I checked my database after the game it showed the line to be very playable and scores fairly well for Black. So my question is what is the most promising way forward for White 6.f3, 6.Ne2 or 6.Nf3. 

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Hi Kevin, I realized this move order also, when I prepared for a game in our club championship.

The course covers 4. ... Bg4 5. f3 Bc8 6. Nc3. When b7-b5 is included (4. ... b5 5. Bb3 Bg4 6. f3 Bc8), I was not so sure whether 7. Nc3 is good or not because Black might attack the knight with b5-b4. In the game Sveshnikov-Bogdan, 1994, Black did not attack the knight on c3. But this happened in later games quite often. And this attack on the knight also happens in the line 7. Qe2 a6 8. Nc3 b4 9. Ne4 Nxd5.

I guess, I would have played like in the game Van Kampen-Yam, 2013 waiting with Nb1-c3 until Black has taken on d5:

7. d4 Nxd5 8. Ne2 e6 9. Nbc3 a6 10. a4 b4 11. Nxd5

I asked Avetik to take a look at this post. We are on it.

Hey-hey! 
Sorry for the late reply. 
Just recorded it. 
Will be edited and added today. Check out section 9, it'll be video 53 - b5 with Bg4. 

Kushal, it was covered. 
4.Na3! 
I also answered your question about 3...Qd8 in another post. 
Please ask your questions in one post. 

Defense against d4+f4 Stonewall Attack Course please!

This line is rare but it would be good to see a course on the ideas of fighting against it as black.  Thank you!

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Have a look here: https://chessmood.com/forum/pro-members/in-the-opening

Thanks Kevin.  That's a nice game.  I would like if they also added a course on it w/ some more explanation & sample games.  Cheers.

Sicilian sidelines grand prix with 5.Bb5 part 7 improvement for black

Hi guys,

been watching Sicilian sidelines and in my pgn found possible improvement for black in this line. Credit goes to IM Sielecki in his chessable sicilian course if I'm not mistaken

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Yes I like Bb5 but I think the best move is 5. Bc4. The top moves are like this : 5.Bc4 d6 6.d3 e6 7. Bb3 and the position is equal but I rather play black. Also after 5. Bb5 Nd4 the best move for white is 0-0, according to stockfish 12 and Komodo 13!!! . Nice analyze from your lessons !

The best games of April 2021 and the prizes

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 Sicilian Defense

https://lichess.org/OCLdwe6Z/white#0

Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation

https://lichess.org/vEx9J3c3/black#0

Attack Attack and Attack

A game without a mistake or blunder.

An attacking game in berserk mode in 3+0

Winning against 2340 rated opponent.

One of the best move I have ever played.

23 ... Rxg2

https://lichess.org/JTLInLWK/white

French Bd3 Nc6 pawn trap on d4

Mate with Bishop and Knight vs Rook and two passed pawns.

Positional play in Italian Str. Training.

https://lichess.org/sp9mYlM3nCCJ

https://lichess.org/QqfGD5pc/white#49

Cool Knights!

Scotch Game

https://lichess.org/WWA7cNzR36tK

Sicilian Defence

https://lichess.org/YrMaoXeY/black#0

Sicilian Defence

https://lichess.org/ZssPZGFW/white#0

Tactics in Bullet

Again Tactics in Bullet

Found 24 ... Qc2 !! in Bullet.

A win over 2400 with GP

https://lichess.org/tuexbf22sZS2

My best SLP ever against 2500+ titled player

https://lichess.org/aY3r10fJbzvu

No blunders, no mistakes, no inaccuracies, 7 average centipawn loss, I might get banned :)

2 pieces sacrificed for the initiative 

https://www.chess.com/a/2JH4nuUD4Knk6

17 move grand prix win

https://lichess.org/Lrar0n3ZlvfK

SLP against 2400

https://lichess.org/XLdxLybGWZGq

Beating the Scandinavian ...Nf6

Black mixes up two plans?!

ThoNoJu vs Henkyhenk: B01 Scandinavian Defense: Modern Variation • lichess.org

Saving a lost position and winning against 2120 rated opponent. 

Saving a lost position and winning against a 2150 rated opponent. 

https://lichess.org/a0AbWTVQlSfE 

https://lichess.org/Dtr8yGuhtQTp 

May the Pasini be always with you :) (Unfortunately due to possibly the website outages, uploading a PGN file appears to be too bugged to do so at the moment.)

[Event "Live Chess"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2021.04.08"]

[Round "?"]

[White ""]

[Black ""]

[Result "1-0"]

[ECO "B06"]

[WhiteElo ""]

[BlackElo ""]

[TimeControl "180"]

[EndTime "10:34:54 PDT"]

[Termination "White won by resignation"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 a6 4. Be3 d6 5. g4 b5 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. h4 h6 8. g5 hxg5

9. h5 gxh5 10. Rxh5 Nd7 11. Rxh8 Bxh8 12. Qh5 Bg7 13. Bxg5 c5 14. e5 dxe5 15.

Bxb7 cxd4 16. Bd5 1-0

https://lichess.org/cFlrYVHm 

Beautiful king hunt leading to checkmate

https://lichess.org/p1BPQVvToKEj 

AntiSicilian quick win against 2450

French squeeze 

Caro attack

Blundered the bishop with later rook sacrifice

SLP after blundering the whole rook

French Defense squeeze.

Win with Scandi

https://lichess.org/8rErmdsrhgPC

Without Moving My King

https://lichess.org/Yy0st2IB

Modern defence, strong attack after bad start

https://lichess.org/8brsFlvDCoUn

Positional play training so no openings stuffs

https://lichess.org/lFUNZqDPyNvH

https://lichess.org/DMIL2mt29tLM

a fine win in Benko with black : 

https://lichess.org/8LzuZYcolsGs

https://lichess.org/VPRUp363xnJB 

And SLP in the old sicilian where I saved a position my opponent had +4.7 engine edge. 3 forks to win.

What about a mix of the Taimanov variation with chessmood openings? My mixes of the sicilian variation when I am on the black side have given me about 50 rating points. 

https://lichess.org/akdCfNOe/white

Fighting Benko against 2400 strong opponent

Trompowsky for black

Latvian gambit, of course forgot the refutation, just tried to play with normal moves ;))

 Alekhine Defense

https://lichess.org/Mw44nsEu/white#0

A perfect game

<iframe src="https://lichess.org/embed/0Pe3jF2K?theme=auto&bg=auto" width=600 height=397 frameborder=0></iframe>

https://lichess.org/akdCfNOe/white

Bf4 versus the Pirc

https://lichess.org/yF09FVFmWYdg 

Caro attack

https://lichess.org/4pCsipMz92vi

Cute mate

https://lichess.org/5uzb5ouJHAfX

Crazy

Crazy AntiSicilian from todays Bundesliga

Sicilian Defense

https://lichess.org/Xk8Gxfuj/black#0

Sicilian Defense

https://lichess.org/IwWQK4Sq/white#0

Sicilian Defense

https://lichess.org/e6A2tjCk/white#0

I knew ideas and forgot line of caro still was able to won against 2500+

https://lichess.org/MwVn4SQcxXbH

https://lichess.org/akdCfNOe/white

So do men play against carokann... ;D.  https://lichess.org/AhxGThy8

Typical exchange sacrifice on c3.

Positional squeezing in AntiSicilian with exchange sacrifice

A good match:

https://lichess.org/WZF6m6SjTzaX

An interesting match:

https://chess24.com/en/game/AyrHMg9zQHePWfVzXdBNSQ

Scotch against 2400

Scotch attack against Qh4, missed checkmate in one move though :))

https://lichess.org/DhqE5QqK6AuG

I won by mounting pressure on my opponent until he cracked!!! I also Sacced TWICE!!!

Sicilian Defense

https://lichess.org/s8OutgOn/black#0

 Russian Game

https://lichess.org/tZE2JC4k/white#0

 Caro-Kann Defense

https://lichess.org/3DP0k9Vn/white#0

Power of Space

https://lichess.org/i2dqZyqAuMHQ

Power of minority attack

https://lichess.org/zV23aC1jNHA7

Power of initiative

https://lichess.org/xNeWL9Y7hUDk

Good french against 2400, ending was bad but managed to win in time trouble

Countering the Scotch ...Qf6

Beating the Alekhine ...Bg4

Beating a weird delayed ...Qd6 Scandinavian

Carlsbad Nd6

https://lichess.org/1Blxn9xDqyLd

Positional play in double fianchetto

https://lichess.org/UxrEJj7HBliQ

Testing double financhetto

https://lichess.org/76xVrx4QMCPD

Attack in stonewall str.

https://lichess.org/0uQwN2z5O0mh

Positional play 

https://lichess.org/7Sv1PlGiLTgF

Caro str. win

https://lichess.org/nvo9z3NmmUHz

SLP str.

https://lichess.org/k9nywvmqKpHZ

https://lichess.org/sYGBw4gg 

Testing positional play

https://lichess.org/5vgXvxgdKBxV

English opening play!

https://lichess.org/vPR5dljs#65

Grand Prix is fun but I am sad that I mixed up lines I think in game

https://lichess.org/WXogWs9D3d7S

Testing positional play 

https://lichess.org/L1ge3gvozAKE

Short kings gambit game

https://lichess.org/study/3dJhG6Ay

Again handled 2400 well positionally

https://lichess.org/89sCE4VlqQJT

A Qb4 Chessmood surprise in the Nc6 Sicilian

Fun finish to this one!

Rubinstein str. training 

https://lichess.org/yefg28hw/black#62

Testing positional play

https://lichess.org/67jrIcPElHSK

Catalan pawn str. play

https://lichess.org/aBOIZk6UsAAF

Minority attack!

https://lichess.org/ZXIwm2imZYCv

Power of Space

https://lichess.org/X3PqllRefo0K

Caro crushing win

https://lichess.org/gAFFfcP1ARiM

This game made my day. This game gave me valuable point to reach 2299! My best rating ever and funny thing is that Grand Prix was my first cm opening which I studied. My feeling of this opening is amazing!. My opponent felt like hell during this game facing Rxf6 then facing Bg5 then Bb8!!. I dont know what engine may say but it's one of my best games of my life. Crushing an almost 2400 in style. All credit goes to cm Grand Prix and presentation of coach @GM_Avetik_Grigoryan .My feeling of Grand Prix is superb !!!

https://lichess.org/AEBO7hKdDmzP

Take a look at pawn storming!

https://lichess.org/YNrOyCrz/black#14

Testing my positional play

https://lichess.org/oaqeKx3wH9HS

18 move english win

https://lichess.org/UJuKuVvz4ZQt

Learnt this c5 move against catalan from live commentary and tried to apply it in practice

https://lichess.org/DWtegeuV/black#34

Power of bishop pair

https://lichess.org/zHk45lY4/black#54

attacks in pirc with Bf4-Qd2

https://www.chess.com/game/live/8444585457 

https://www.chess.com/game/live/12075220253

https://lichess.org/vSfsATpQaZLW 
 

Attack!!

https://lichess.org/H0tibkn3

btw i am white in the game(EighthAccount)

Chess is fun

Achieved highest elo in my life on my second account 2300+ using cm line. This was my last game French Bd3

https://lichess.org/fHt9I2YdX1bL

https://lichess.org/heCudvmn/black

Caro-Kann Defense

https://lichess.org/x360f66W/white#0

Test my catalan str. feeling

https://www.chess.com/game/live/13359233333

Good Game!

Tried to follow chessmood opening & win the match.

https://chess24.com/en/game/94Zoy9n8QNuA9-MBSR8Zvw

Good win.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/12583130567

I’ve begun transitioning from 5 minutes to 10, as I find I need the longer time to really think through the positions.  As a result, my rating in the longer games has gotten over 2300.  

https://lichess.org/ihLewUnI/white

Stafford Gambit

I usually use a system with 6.Se3, but now I've tried the Avetic weapon.

https://lichess.org/QrE3KWOu#7

Hey, champions! 
Thanks for all your posted games. 

The 1st place goes to Claudio Thoux for his crazy attack! 
https://www.chess.com/a/2JH4nuUD4Knk6 

The 2nd place goes to Vladimir Bugaev for killing with Grand-Prix attack 
(The game you can find on the 2nd page)  

The 3rd place goes to Tiraturyan David for his nice tactic. 
https://lichess.org/2oGKGXry#32 

The 4th place goes to Abhi Yadav, for his very deep positional game. 
https://lichess.org/aBOIZk6U#40 
Abhi played another cool attacking game. Here is the link:  
https://lichess.org/AEBO7hKd#31   

The 5th place goes to Paulius Juknis for crushing the Pirc defense.
https://www.chess.com/game/live/8444585457 

Thanks for your participation. 
Keep the growth. 

Right Mood - Right Move! 
See you in May. 

Why are you losing?

One thing that is mentioned in Wetzell's "Master at Any Age" is 'getting the best bang for you buck'. That is older players may not have the luxury of being able to spend time everywhere, nor may an experienced player need to. There are usually one or two areas that are causing the most points/games/problems in someone's game and time spent there is going to pay more than on other areas (It's perhaps not so simple as that as sometimes you need to build foundations for later too).

Here's an idea. Go through your last 20-30 standard length games. If you don't have a lot of time, use auto-analysis on lichess or chess.com. For each game irrespective of the result, try to find 3 errors (I also note the move number and url). Move the pieces if necessary to try to understand why the computer marked it as an inferior move. Note the errors, and also if you were in time trouble (difficult to define since go for long enough and time will usually become a problem, but worth noting if the game finished with less than 5 minutes, and your opponent had significantly more time - or if one of your chosen errors happened in low time).

The aim is to look for patterns. I seem to be quite often opening up lines for the opponent's pieces. I also get into time trouble a lot (45 or 60 minutes even with 15 or 5 seconds increment is not a lot for me, so much of this will be less of a problem when going back to over the board chess).

Here's my last 10.

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Sorry if you need to 'go to specsavers' to read the above post - the editor decided that the whole post should be in a small font.

IoI... great job! 

Twitch chess Chess Mood course streaming

Hi all

I just finished watching GM Hohvannes Gabuzyhan webinar on Modern Maroczy a few moments ago, which was great (as all Hohvannes webinars) and after this, I went to Twitch chess and to follow some chess streams, where I am seeing a streamer (ChessLifestyle) streaming "Chessable + Chessmood" training and Rook vs Pawn course (by GM H Gabuzyhan). Is this all good & acceptable to ChessMood? Are some ChessMood courses public and available to stream? Are there Chessable & ChessMood courses and these are streamable? What is the Chess Mood policy on any & all of this? (btw I posted on the same issue on the Chess Mood Facebbok group too).

NB Apologies..I tried to upload a screenshot but without success..yet..I will try again!

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wow!! I am sure that is not acceptable! 

I'd use the contact us link, you'll get a response faster.

Hey champions! 
Thanks for informing :) 
These are good guys and are our affiliate partners. 

This way they want to introduce others to ChessMood. 
They will not stream all our videos :) No worries :)