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Question about french

Dear chess friends

In a blitzgame followed the theory recommend by chessmood

1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Bd3 dxe4 4 bxe4 nf6 5 bf3 c5 6 ne2 nc6 7 be3 cxd4 8 nxd4 ne5 9 nc3 be7 10 qe2 o-o 11 o-o-o qv7

How can white play 

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g4 is a natural plan. 
After Qc7?! White also can play Kb1 useful move, preparing Bf4, so there is not Nd3. 
However, I checked with cloud engines, even after Bf4 right away, Nd3, Rd3 White has a big pressure due to monster bishop on f3. 

Chess Mood Scotch course goes wild...

I recently saw the Chess Mood Scotch course on sale at Chessworld.com (which makes it somewhat less exclusive as a Chess Mood course for members & Pro members). Are the other Chess Mood courses available elsewhere also and are there plans to release more? I would appreciate any reassurance Chess Mood can give, that membership here will not be devalued by any of these "wild" courses. Many thanks & best wishes

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The site is thechessworld.com and I did see the banner therein.

me too. I just checked and saw the banner.

Richard don't worry.
ChessMood courses are not available anywhere else. And Scotch is the only one, which you can find in somehwere else. 
Membership will be devalued. It will be more valued only. Soon it's coming courses for middlegames and endgames. 

question about French

question about french

I had in an online game a position from your French course

1 e4-e6 2 d4-d5 3 Bd3-Nf6?! 4 e5-Nd7 5 Ne2-c5 6 c3-Nc6 7 a3-Qb6 8 B4-c4 9 Bc2-a5 10 b5-Qxb5

11 a4-Qb6 12 Na3-Na7 this is ofcourse a promising position for white.

And in my opinion strong candidate moves are 0-0 and Ng3 and Nf4 how will a strong player/grandmaster decide what move to play

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Hello Franck,

It's funny because I just watched this video before reading this question. In this exact line Grigoryan recommends to castle and then start the attack in the Kingside. I guess it just makes sense to castle, and then play Ng3 or Nf5, Qg4 or h5 depending on the attack that you wish to perform, always taking into account what the opponent is going to do. If you watch the video again, you can see this line and how the attack is performed in the kingside, sacrificing two pieces or just going Qh6, Nh5 (after Ng3). Check it out, because this line is really easy to learn and people play it a lot... Regarding how the grandmasters /strong players choose their move, I will let the stronger players or GM answer... Good mood and good games to all of you!

Thanks, Ed, for an excellent answer.
Both moves are fine. I would go Ng3. 
Here is why: If we go Nf4, where goes the knight next? h5, right? 
So the Knight on g3 also can go to h5, but on g3, it keeps c1 bishop open and also keeps f4,f5 plan. 
So Ng3 is more flexible move. 
And the upcoming attack should be finished with checkmate minimum :D :D :D 

The Best Games of February and the Prizes

Hello ChessMood Family! 
We have good news. 
This month we've raised the prize found!
It's gonna be 600K Moodcoins which is equal to 600$. 
The 1st prize  - 300k
The 2nd prize - 200k
The 3rd prize-  100k

Under this post, we invite you to post your best games that you will play in February. 
Let's go! 

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https://chess.com/live/game/4459578833

Taking ideas from the stream ( maybe not executed perfectly, but still executed!) I entomb his light squared bishop, then attack on the other side of the board!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4465304609

Here was a Scotch where black takes 4...Nxd4 and struggles most the game

https://lichess.org/lYhBEm2W/white

Bd3 - French

https://lichess.org/a2ZJVKVeoVJS

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4479296469

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4481454184

Fun game in the Benko! Lots of presure even before my opponent was nice enough to hand me his queen!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4486727939

Another French-Bd3

The Dragon is hungry! My opponent loses in 12 moves!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4488456001

I have been working on the strategy of playing against my opponents pieces. in this game my opponent's bishop never gets to move!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4489915352

Very nice Endgame with Bishop Pair and Some nice tactics.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4493607565

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4495177072

Hi ChessMood Famili <3 , May i Send PGN files from my best games ( in february ) ?

Lichess.org

Time control: 3+0     

White: giorgoskehagias509 (1775) Black: vijendra123 (1679)

1. e4 d5  2. exd5 Qxd5  3. Nc3 Qd8  4. d4 Bf5  5. Bg5 e6??  6. Bxd8 Kxd8  7. Bd3 Bg6  8. Bxg6 hxg6  9. d4 e5  10. Nfe Nd7  11. Nxe5 Nxe5  12. O-O Bd6  13. f4 Nd7  14. Re1 g5?  15. Qe2 Ngf6  16. fxg5 Bxh2+  17. Kf1 Nxd5  18. Nxd5 c6?  19. Qe7+ Kc8  20. Qe8+ ... and with this beautiful queen saceifice black resigned. Finally, I want to add that I played this game without having watched the Crushing the Scandinavian defence course. 

A fun Benko that played out in my favor

I controlled this one almost all the way through! I did miss a hanging queen late in the game, but I was winning by so much it didnt alter the outcome!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4525949393

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4530112431 scotch win.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4529920574 Benko win.

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/248781356  c5!

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/247913010 Benko win.

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/248055422 Benko win 

https://www.chess.com/daily/game/245788412 c5 crush without prep.

I hope some of my games are interesting.. Thanks chessmood for his wonderful opening repo. I only saw one time all lessons and I remember some ideas and because of that I am still winning games. I am playing less and learning more now a days. Especially watching classics so I will learn more pattern and concepts. 

Hello everyone,

New PRO member in the family! Edo from Tokyo, nice to meet you all!

I just played a tournament practice game with the standard time used in Japan, with 45 min + 15 sec. It is a Benko Gambit game, where the white opponent felt the pressure all the game and was unable to find good moves because of it. The funny thing is that I watched all the benko gambit files only once, but the instruction is so crystal clear that even after missing a couple of chances my opponent was still tied up. Time did the rest but, no more talking and I hope that you enjoy the game annotated by me for you all and feel the pressure of the right mood... (at least that is what I was thinking during the game).

https://lichess.org/pplaZrv5/white#0

an exciting middlegame and a beatiful endgame for me.

White:Me

Black:opponent

Hello, I am going to upload some of the latest games, trying to follow Chessmood openings and playing with the right mood, with music, and direct sun light...

In this one I did not know the variation proposed by Grigoryan (now I do), still, greed is not good...

Another one with the Scotch, punishing again...

An strange Sicilian with a grip on d3 during all game...

A kind of Maroczy bind destroyed but I still have to watch the videos... All these games are at 3 min + 2 sec

https://lichess.org/4SBPSDXf/black

Good positional game

Black: me

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/4541405123

https://lichess.org/y0wdj61s/white

I watched Grigoryan's scotch and I played a beatiful scotch attacking game.

https://chess.com/live/game/4466876305. 

Crushing opponent with Sicilian defense. 

https://chess.com/live/game/4466876305

Didn't play this in Feb but i forgot to submit last month. This game is from Thailand team championship.

Left blitz for next 4 months so focused on classical play. I chose 15/10 , 

Here is my last game of feb.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4547409599

Scotch always rocks

https://lichess.org/HlpzOeKb/black

A nice Benkö-Gambit thanks to you played!

White: Justin Chen

Black: Stephen Stoyko

Event: 2020 USATE

1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 c5 4. d5 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 f5 6. e4 fxe4 7. f3 Qa5 8. Qc2 Nf6 9. fxe4 Nxe4 10. Bd3 Nf6 11. Nf3 d6 12. O-O Nbd7 13. Bf4 Nh5 14. Bg5 Ndf6 15. Rae1 Kd8 16. Bh4 Re8 17. Ng5 Bd7 18. Nxh7 Nxh7 19. Bxg6 N7f6 20. Bxe8 Bxe8 21. g4 { 1-0 } 

Submitting this game for consideration.  Played yesterday, Feb. 29 at the Palm Beach February Quads.

2 out of 3 in this tournament and picked up about 30 points towards my goal of 2000 USCF

https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/game/?p=39442BEnxX9XdlWColy5/ONT7rTfRPMoGKLZJHTtOtNIlEpjOjjQX1aMZBJse8ni

I played this game yesterday 02/29/20 as a training game. It was against an 1805 player and time control was 30+10. Ended in a draw! 

https://lichess.org/g5FfyojMNamg

Hello Champions! 
Thank you for all your games. 
It's cool to see how you grow. It's twice cool to see how you crush with ChessMood Openings. 

Among all these games, we must mention 2 strategical games of Jay Garrison, where he like master isolated opponent's pieces and won the games. Good job, Jay. Impressive. 

Abhi and Ed Tokyo played very cool games with ChessMood openings, especially Benko Gambits. 
Jeff's attack in Sicilian was cool too.

Derek's checkmating attack wish Sicilian was nice too.  

And we had another 3 impressive attacks! 
So the winners of February's Best Games:

The 3rd place goes to Hasmik Kochinyan for bringing opponent's king to h3 and checkmating there! 

The 2nd place goes to Justin Chen for destroying opponent's position with very agressive attack, starting with e4 sacrifice. 

The best game of February goes to Fahad Rahman! 0-0-0 and Bb5 moves were fantastic!  


Congratulations to the winners! 
Keep the growth and see you in the "Best Games of March." 

P.S The Prizes will be on your accounts tomorrow :) 

How can black survive after strong g4 in the botwinnik variation

How can black survive after the strong g4 of Salgado in the game salgado Lopez in the game salgado lopez-Shirov 2019 ch esp

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This is another game played after g4

Franck, can you clarify your question, please? 

Attacking with Scotch Game - 8. h4! f6

Hello coach. Where can I find in the advance section the one mentioned in Section 3 - 8...f6 Crazy lines. Been searching and have not found advance section - 8. h4! f6. Thank you. 

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Hey Michael! 
Somehow the videos are lost. You are right. 
We will record new ones soon and add it there. 
You will get an email. 

Chess Social Media

Anyone active on whatsapp, facebook or instagram. I wanna some active chess groups on whatsapp and instagram. If anyone knows then add me

fb @abhishekyadavgm

insta @chesslectures

whatsapp +919992285777

Please add only for chess related stuffs. Thanks.

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We have our discord server here too friend

https://discord.gg/PF9fh6h

PGN Files of the Streams

Hey Champions! 
Here are the files of 800-2400 journey.
There are 3 parts and 30 instructive games which we covered during the webinar.

Keep Growing
Yours,
Avetik  

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Super!

Thanks Coach

Thanks very much (btw great webinar today with you & GM Hohvannes Gabuzyan...)

Hi 

These are not pgn.  They look like Ches Base Files but I have chess Base 15, but it will not open them either.

Thanks a lot for your help Sensei! It will be nice to compare the games with the chessmood repertoire and see where the games changed and how to followup.

More courses, opening repertoire for 1. d4 players, etc?

Hi,

I sampled the Modern Maroczy course when chessmood unlocked its courses for a day a couple of weeks ago and loved what I saw. I'm considering becoming a PRO member in order to finish studying that course. However, to continue my membership, I'd like to see something for 1. d4 players and perhaps some other courses on endgames, middle game play (calculation), etc. Are such courses in the pipeline and if so, how much time would it take before we see them on the site? 

Great work on the existing courses, like I said, I loved what I saw (Avetik is a great teacher!). I could actually remember what I saw in the video much later. 

Thanks,

Vishnu

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Hi Vishnu,I also watched the Maroczy Bind Course and I found it very interesting. I spent 5 hours that weekend and I kept a lot of notes in order to look sth up. I love your suggestion, although I prefer to open up with 1. e4 in 10mins+ time controls. I would like to see some more course about and against 1.Nf3

Can white win this endgame?

https://www.chess.com/blog/Abhi_Mary_1997/knight-against-bishop-endgame

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Classic games

I finished all the classics in chessmood community and I made my chessbase files too for future training of critical moments. 

Now I am watching other videos on classics. 

Normally what I do is during I watch games I note down critical moments, trying to understand concepts behind moves  and also make chessbase files of games which i use  for future training.

Is it good idea or I am doing something wrong.  My important job exam in May so I can't focus on analysis of games or calculation training so I only follow live streams and webinars and classic games study. Due to live streams on chessmood my instincts, intuition, power of bishop pairs, weak pawns concepts, Tv concepts, Door concepts, creativity, openings, feeling critical moments, trading concepts,punishing bad openings etc, are improving so  I think if right now I only focus on watching games and grasping ideas and making files for future training is fine.

In the bottom I am sharing my recent fb post where I wrote what I learnt from  Judit Polgar vs Alexi Shriov 1999 classic game. Kindly check those points and let me know if i am missing something. Also I am only 1465 FIDE rated so keep that in mind during you write answers. Thanks for support

https://www.facebook.com/abhishekyadavgm/posts/2629577153929803

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Top level a6?

Any idea why a strong player of 2600+ rating chose this a6 move against Nc3? 

I think in our chessmood course a6 was considered bad version of closed sicilian. So I am wondering why he chose a6 line against Nc3. Any idea coaches?

This game was so fun to watch and I loved the Analysis of commentator so I thought to share the game link so it will be helpful for other members.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1593808

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how to win when opponent has zero space

So i was playing for an IM norm, only needing a win against an 2320 rated player in the last round with white. As you can see the opening went really well, and afterwards outplayed her with c5! and she has almost zero space for here piecses. but just afterwards I follow up with g4 and Bishop takes g6, and I am now just scratching my head by how terrible and illogical those moves were... Any tips on how to never do such moves again? and a way to stop having naightmares about it? I think my problem was that I got too impatiant and afraid she could untangle her position in some way. 

also any tips on how to play these positions?

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. e4 Bb4 5. Bd2 Ne7 6. a3 Bxc3 7. Bxc3 O-O 8. Bd3 b6 9. b3 Bb7 10. Nf3 Nd7 11. O-O Rc8 12. Re1 h6 13. Re3 Nf6 14. e5 Ne8 15. c5 Rb8 16. g4 Ng6 17. Bxg6 fxg6 18. Qd3 g5 19. Kg2 Rf4 20. Kg3 Nc7 21. h4 Ba6 22. Qg6 Qf8 23. hxg5 Be2 24. Rxe2 Rxf3+ 25. Kg2 Rxc3 26. gxh6 bxc5 27. f4 Rbxb3 28. Rf2 Rg3+ 29. Kf1 Rh3 30. g5 Qf7 31. h7+ Rxh7 32. Qc2 Rg3 33. Rb1 Rh1+ 34. Ke2 Rxb1 35. Rh2 Qf5 0-1

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Hey Man! 
I am sorry to hear that you lost such an important game in such a good position.
Yeah, g4 and Bg6 are very strange moves. 

Well, just 1 example is not enough, but as a coach who many years work with students of your level, it seems you have not enough database of classical games in your database. 
It seems you have not analysed much over the board and have not worked much with books. 
I may be wrong, as I said 1 game is not enough for conclusion. 

The problem of g4 is Bg6, you didn't find the Right Plan. 

For example, if you have carefully watched Gabuzyan's "Sicilian Sidelines" course, there you would see Nh4 move. 
Also this move happened in the game Vallejo - Carlsen. 
If you have seen those, you could easily play this strong move here too. 

My advice - don't give up. Take a bit rest after this painful defeat and start working with chess books. Yeah and go over our "Classical Commetned Games" course.

Hopefully, these help. 

Mindblowing h5!

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This is against Kupchik, right? 
Very deep prophylaxis.  

when will there a new part published of the najdorf

When will part 3 of the Najdorf be published

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GM Gabuzyan is working on it. 
To produce high-quality material, it takes time, and for 1-hour course spends countless of hours. 
If we record 1 hour course in 2 hours, we'll be the same, as many chess education platforms, lacking quality, who are compensating it with nice marketing words.
We'll not do that. 

7 Tips How to Keep Concentration during a Chess Game

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Very good article on concentration!thanks

Really great article! :)

Best rating increase after single game(+186)

I just finished a 3 day team match at chess.com and won (after my opponent resigned) and my rating went from 1429 to 1615 (+186).

I too need also to learn the Chess Mood Accelerated Dragon opening, but I was happy to do so well with an opening I know virtually nothing about! Now I am keen to learn this Sicilian Hyperaccelerated Dragon, as imagine how good it could be if I actually knew some theory of it!?

Well, that was the biggest rating increase I think I have ever had (+186) from a single game win. Anyone done any better?

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That’s strange. I beat people over 300 rating points above me and never had any increase as huge as that. But congratulations however you did that.

Well, I did play bullet recently and after the win, my rating went +210, but thas because I don't play bullet often.

Was it a new nickname? 
Because chess.com at first gives and takes from you much, and then max. 10 points. 

Mood coin

How to redeem moodcoin ??

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You can buy the courses. 
But if the moodcoins were gained but ignoring our policies, the user will be banned.

Law against Cheaters

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Playing online is becoming increasingly difficult as there are the cheaters the Coach mentioned about ruining it for all the serious players as well as enthusiasts. Recently we encountered cheaters who play a couple of inaccuracies so as to not get caught up and then blitz out the game. I agree there has to be some way where this can be stopped but I guess such is life where you read or encounter some or the other form of con artists.

Lastly," the game is bigger than the individual" and will survive this too.

Wow! I have seen some of the cheaters, while watching you play them during the webinars and this always upsets and exasperates me! I used to get angry about this cheating, but I try not to now, as that makes this situation worse!

I do feel that some action should be taken against them if they are clearly shown to have cheated (& probably they will have done it across several games). I feel the chess arbiters on the server should then serve them an immediate 1 year ban from continued online play and that their names/accounts be made public on a roll of shame! Let's push for a Chess Mood law against cheaters!

It seems very sad to me that some players cheat online or over the board and I feel something needs to be done to minimise this and somehow deal with it! Why doesn't everyone do as Chess Mood with:Right Mood Right Move?!!  Well done to you for helping to deal with it! ;-)

24 hour Gift

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happy birthday to chess mood,i only realised it now!!master 

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to chessmood!