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Which is the most complicated endgame?
Which is the most complicated endgame for you that it’s hard to learn and remember typical positions? For me it’s 2 Knights vs Pawn winning positions and also Rook vs 2 connected Pawns.
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For me bishop and rook vs rook is complex for now. As I am new in endgames and my main focus is on middlegames. Soon I am gonna work on endgames once my current training will over in 2 months. In december I will start my endgame training from beginning to the end. Pawn endgames are also very very complex for me.
I am doing fine with bishop vs knight endgames or knight vs bishop or bishop pair but I face nightmare whenever I have to face N vs N endgames.
A position I found in a fundamental book but then coach told me that it's complex for my level hehehe. I spent a lot time but failed to defend that position against computers.
Position:
W: Ka3 g3 h4 B: Ke4 g4 (B to move and draw)
Currently I am working on following books ( duration 2 months )
1. How to Reassess Your Chess: Chess Mastery Through Imbalance
2. Chess Pattern Recognition for Beginners: The Fundamental Guide to Spotting Key Moves in the Middlegame
3. Paul Morphy Move by Move with @Devansh_Shah
4. Petrosian Move by Move with @Devansh_Shah
5. Capablanca's Best Endings. with @Jay_Garrison
All of them :D but probably I'll choose rook endgame.
When I play Rossolimo with the black pieces usually after some excanges in the middlegame I get a complicated endgame: 2 rooks + 7 pawns vs 2rooks + 8 pawns with akward, doubled pawn structures where you have to take advantage of only 1 open or half open file.
I studied a lot , the book 100 endgames by De la Villa and I always found boring and difficult to remember exactly the positions from the Ending 93 - Positions 13.4 to 13.6 - Checkmating with B and N.
I also always make mistakes with Rook vs Rook +2 pawns.
But always I keep forgetting the endings after a couple of years, I already studied this book 3 times from beginning to end seriously, now I just check it from time to time.
I get stressed with Queen and Pawn endgames. I am always afraid I will over look a some fork or skewer several moves in the future that loses haha!
Motivation- A necessity for most of people
I am just curious to know something about motivation. People who lose or have issues in anything beg others to send them motivational video or books and they say like oh once I will watch this I will become motivated to work again. Do you guys think it's right approach?
For me when I feel down I watch Pawn Sacrifice Movie and it makes me motivated again. But it does not mean that all time I need that movie to motivate me. My motivation comes from inside. My past loses, never won any event in 7 years, people laughed at me and called me loser, all ignored me, This all motivates me to do something by which I can slap on their face. Don't take my words in negative way. People are good and bad. Bad people only understand the power of success slap. Thats's why I work a lot.
You may be see that in some chessmood posts I am posting how many books I am doing right now. It's more than 7 I think. and my target is to finish 5 of them in 50 days from now. I did not post them for anyone's appreciation. I posted them to motivate those who need motivation to work. I am just 1465 but I have goals and I am committed to achieve them and I have nothing if not chess. So I only have to do everything which I can in chess. So be happy and try to focus on what your inner heart says. But as I said once you will have goals and burning desire then you will achieve success.
I am super happy that because of ChessMood I found two amazing training partners Jay and Devansh.
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I too want a Study Partner to Study Books... Can we be Study Partners Abhi?
Pgn for woodpecker training.
Anyone have the pgn of how to reassess your chess 4th edition. The reason for that is that I am interested to apply the woodpecker method on this book so pgn will save my time during my second to 7th cycles. So I will be glad if anyone can share me the file.
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Why Bullet?
I feel always confused why players of below 2300 plays a lot bullet online? I do not feel that they will maintain their 2300 elo level by playing bullet a lot. What you think guys? I left bullet once coach said never play bullet!
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Before joining chessmood, I didn't know which time controls would be better for me. I didn't even know that by playing bullet I would ruin my chess. Now I have raised 350 online rtg in 1,5 years and I rarely play bullet, although I maintain a high bullet rtg.
cause it is fun
Perpetual Chess (podcast)
I learned about ChessMood on Ben Johnson's "Perpetual Chess" podcast, #192 on Sept. 1, 2020. Has anyone else joined this site based on hearing that podcast?
https://www.perpetualchesspod.com/new-blog/2020/9/1/episode-192-gm-avetik-grigoryan
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Hey!
Welcome to the team!
Yeah, many has joined :)
Yes, I also joined after hearing the podcast
I also joined after listening to GM Grigoryan's interview in Perpetual Chess. It seemed very interesting to me and after watching a few free lessons and some videos on YouTube I decided to give it a try as a PRO member. I am enjoying it immensely so far, it is clear that there are long and high quality work hours behind all this content.
Same for me. I also decided to go PRO and I am very happy with the content.
I forgot to add that I'm very happy with my PRO membership. I can't wait to see where this site takes me.
The podcast interview was great. I have already listened to and read several interviews of GM Avetik and every time I learn something new and inspiring
Hard Work vs Smart Work
During my one on one call with coach he suggested me to work in smart way. I liked his ideas because before that I was only studying hard. But even after he said smart work I am doing super hard work. I do not know but working 3-4 hrs a day on chess makes me feel like I did nothing. I feel more happy when I do combo smart and hard work and I normally works 10 hrs a day and sometimes 12 hrs. So what you think about work? You prefer smart work or combo or smart work and hard work?
I just like to learn a lot. I can't sit and wait. Some people and strong player told me to don't try to work on your weaknesses but I do both. I work on my strength and weaknesses so I can become perfect one day. I know no human is perfect but at a level all human feel satisfied with their work or game. Same with me, I am not satisfied yet with my play but the way I am improving my skills makes me more motivated that I will achieve my goals. I like combo of smart and hard work.
My list in the bottom of both kind of works!
Example of smart work:
Working with strong chess partners on classics and endgames.
Example of my alone hard work:
Working on visualization book, working on endgame book, working on htryc by Silman, pattern recog book, blindfold.
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FIDE Online Olympiad Gazprom brilliancy prize
Alexei Shirov won Gazprom Brilliancy Prize
Enjoy;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJqBz7FT5E
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Calculation
I think many players joined chessmood but may be some of you missed this post by coach about calculation. I suggest you to take a look and then comment in the bottom about your thoughts about calculation
https://chessmood.com/forum/main-channel/is-it-fine-to-spend-1-hour-on-calculation-1000
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Notation Memorization Help.
I find myself lost and cutting squares often when trying to follow notation and record my own games.
does anyone have any suggestions to help speed up my “Notation Location” knowledge?
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Save, record your chess moves notation to PGN files. We can organize this easy next.
Thanks.
Chess.com has a feature about that.You can use it.
Next world champion
Who do you think will be the next world chess champion?
In my opinion, Magnus will stay in his place for a long time, but if he loses as a proud Armenian, I hope he loses to Levon Aronian :)
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I want it to be Levon. I don't like Caruana. I like Levon from 2017 when he started making h4 as trend at top level. Super ideas with h4. I also remembered how creative he played in the year 2017. So I miss his form and I wish he will come back soon like he was in past.
Take a look at this game. I was watching live this game but yeah if I check the commentary now then I understand more ideas in depth but that time it was so amazing to learn from this game.
It’s early to talk about that :D
Alireza Firouzja
Magnus will stay in his place for a long time, and will loose to Alireza eventually.
How do you like it ? 2 Games with CHESSMOOD OPENINGS
Hey Champs! How are you doing today?
I was playing knockout system rapid tournament yesterday and managed to win 2 very exciting games in our CHESSMOOD openings against 2550 GM!
Here are the links: https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/share/?p=49fR2dg/ivp+y6l1+VG1RAykWk4pu+4pTceqwZNNZjzJhKS6LQQ8AHKhCbRlG3pw
You are welcome to leave your thoughts and share comments guys!
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Fantastic!
In the Benko, you explained all the ideas of b4 setup! :)
@GM_Hovhannes_Gabuzyan, in your words, how can you explain WHY did you exchange the queens in the Scotch game? 21.Qb5
It seems a very instructive moment.
Dear friends,
I've recorded and added the Benko game in our courses.
Check it out, if you're a PRO Member here:
https://chessmood.com/course/benko-gambit/episode/1885
Anti-Benoni/Benko (Kasparov's Gambit) vs Maroczy for Black
Hi GM Avetik, GM Gabuzyan, and Chessmood friends,
Some White players avoid Benoni/Benko with Cf3: 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5 3 Nf3
We can reach the same position via 1.c4, 1.d4 or 1.Cf3.
QUESTIONS:
A) Which of the following systems is better for Black? and Why? :
1- Anti-Benoni/Benko Gambit with 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5 3 Nf3 cxd4 4 Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d5 6.cxd5 Bc5
2- Maroczy
The first line (Kasparov's Gambit) is very dynamic, and sharper than Maroczy. I am wondering why we go for Maroczy in Chessmood's Black repertoire? Is there any problem with Kasparov's Gambit? If yes, what is it? What is the main reason we accept passive Maroczy over dynamic Kasparov's Gambit as Black?
B) If I play as White against Anti-Benoni/Benko (Kasparov's Gambit), what would be the best plan for me to get the most out of opening? 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5 3 Nf3 cxd4 4 Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d5 6.cxd5 Bc5, what would be the best continuation for Whit? :
7.N5c3
7.e3
7.d6
7.g3
Thank you
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Kourosh, the gambit is very complicated and with correct play White gets advantage in a few ways.
Why don't you keep with Maroczy.
About 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 we'll upload a course this month.
I would say, cause it is easier, as you also play maroczy vs 1.e4
The Kasparov Gambit seems more or less sound, if you like dynamic play, go for it, no one will know how to handle it
Study Partner!
. I am currently working on 3 classics book with 2 training partner and I am glad they are super serious about learning and improving their skills to the next level and everyday they are thirsty to learn something new and grasp new ideas. I want to work on books which I shared in the bottom of For improving positional skills and Endgame If you have burning desire and are serious about learning something new from classics analysis then don't miss to join my study training. But I hate excuses, yeah if they are genuine then it's ok. I don't wanna lazy partner. Only serious and strong players can contact me. The reason behind joining strong player so that I can also learn from them. Another thing is that I just started working on analysis of classics so I need supportive partner who can help me to see the lines well.
About me:
I am Abhishek Yadav. I am an Indian. I have 1465 FIDE rating and online is around 2100 on lichess new account and old account had 2180. I have burning desire to learn something that's why I am here to learn from Chessmood Family. Hope to see you soon!
Right now I am working on:
1) Morphy Move by Move book with Devansh
2) Petrosian Move by Move with Devansh.
3) Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings” by Irving Chernev with Jay Garrison
For improving positional skills and Endgame
Rubinstein’s Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games” by Hans Kmoch
Grandmaster Chess Strategy: What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson’s Positional Masterpieces”by Jurgen Kaufeld and Guido Kern
Anatoly Karpov’s Best Games by Anatoly Karpov
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Benko Gambit Main Line
https://www.chess.com/live/game/5452841427
Where I made mistake? I could not figure it out.I think I almost played opening correctly and even the plans. Can anyone help me out?
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I didn’t look at the whole game but 39 . . . c4 looks like you just blundered the pawn. Maybe Rc8 first and then c4. Rooks belong behind passed pawns! :-)
I think 16.... not Ne5 because the knight very important for black maybe 16... c4 idea Nc5 andthen black have idea to play Nd3
I agree with Sengon. c4 Nc5 looks good!
Mainly in Benko's position, if after c4 White can't play Nd4 with Nc6, c4 with idea Nc5 becomes strong.
Later in the endgame, starting from move 22, the typical move is f5! - weakening the d5 pawn or e4.
Caruana joined ChessMood
Yesterday Caruana played 5.g4! - Pasini variation - a very rare one, which we recently added in the Modern Pirc course.
https://chessmood.com/course/modern-pirc
He did all the ideas in the game, shown in the course...
Now I'm thinking, is he a secret PRO Member of ChessMood? :) Are any of his coaches secret ChessMood PRO Members? :)
Or is it just a coincidence?
What do you think? :)
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I think it's possible he could be a member, or more likely one of his seconds. Whatever the truth is one thing is for certain, Caruana's adoption of our g4 plan confirms how powerful the variation is, as even by elite standards Caruana is considered a monster theoretician.
Very cool indeed.
Partner to play Scotch
Good Morning
I just learned Scotch repertoire and look for a training partner.
I am 1500 FIDE, about 1800 Lichess Classic, living in Uruguay (UTC-3).
If somebody is interesed, let me know.
Best Regards
Marc
keep COGRO !!!
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abhi_mary_1997 lichess
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add me for better conversation and training
Hey i just learnt scotch also
Buffyslayer_openings on lichess. Add me to practice training
Crazy KID
As you know guys I am working on KID pawn formations so today my training partner Devansh Shah showed me this game for fun and I was like what? Super complex KID.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1800188
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sicilian najdorf tips
any tips for black in sicilian najdorf?
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e3 Benko question. (5. ...e6 seems to have some problems)
I really wanted to try 5. ...e6 against the e3 Benko line but I ran into some issues due to the same e4 ideas as the ones Avetik presented in the Blumenfeld countergambit comparison. Could you please take a look at the pgn below and let me know what you think?
[Event "Black opening prep: Chapter 1"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/study/WOCjf67D/JSlcLMLX"]
[Result "*"]
[UTCDate "2020.09.15"]
[UTCTime "20:36:33"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[ECO "A57"]
[Opening "Benko Gambit Accepted, Modern Variation"]
[Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/liszt85"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. e3 e6 6. dxe6 fxe6 7. Nc3 (7. Nf3 d5 8. Nc3 Bd6 { What Avetik played in his blitz game. } 9. Be2 { was the move played in the blitz game that Avetik played but } (9. e4 { is far more challenging. So 8. ...Bd6 is likely to be wrong. } 9... dxe4 10. Ng5 O-O 11. Be3 $16 { [%cal Gf1c4] }) 9... O-O 10. O-O Bb7 11. bxa6 (11. a4 { Bhakti, Kulkarni - Holm, Kristian Stuvik, 1-0, Budapest FS05 IM, 2011, https://lichess.org/SEvmD3FI } 11... axb5 12. Nxb5 { and white is more than comfortable here. } { [%csl Gd6] } 12... Be7 13. b3 { [%cal Gc1b2] }) 11... Nxa6 { Kazakovskiy, Valeriy - Kovalev, Vl, 0-1, 84th ch-BLR 2018, https://lichess.org/KiGZLIWY } { This was also how Avetik's game went. }) 7... d5 8. Nf3 *
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Hey Vishnu!
Good question. This problem was posted by our PRO Member Nicolo.
As we said earlier in the posts, now we're re-recording the Benko Gambit course.
Beginner French questions
Hello,
I am a low intermediate player, not sure my otb rating at this point tend to be around 1500 online.
I like playing the French defense, but I frequently get opponents that play slightly unusual or inaccurate move orders.
The one if face most often is 1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 which usually goes into exchange French
and another is 1. e4 e6 2. e5 which usually transposes into advance variation. I was wondering if there is anything to do against these weird move orders to spice things up a bit.
I get tired of playing the exchange so I could transpose into a Sicilian in the first example but don’t play that opening, so I’m not sure what variation that would be called.
Thanks
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If you want to play the French and play for a win, you need to deal with the Exchange Variation. After all, white can play it on move 3 no matter what.
Yeah, i see that the exchange variation is drawish.But if our opponent wants a draw, they will fight for a draw so they won't play aggressive move.If you want to win, there are some rules
-Castle in the opposite side of the white king
-Try to exchange their light square bishop via f5
-Play f6 to cover e5, then follow with g5,h5 and a pawn storm
I would buy giris french course, it is super sound and covers more or less everything
