Doubt in Rossolimo

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.0-0 Bg7 5.c3 Nf6 6.Rel 0-0 7.d4 d5 8.e5 Ne4 9.Be3 Played by Caruana and This Line Has Good Results for White.

Sir,How should we continue there?

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This question has already been asked and answered here: https://chessmood.com/forum/pro-members/nightmare-for-rossolimo

Also guys its okay to do some of your own research, get a database and keep it updated. Try out this free resource to get you started:  https://theweekinchess.com/twic

I for one would investigate GM Anton Guijarro's approach, he's a serious theoretician:   

No Access

Hello, I'm a celebrity and I don't have access to the proforum today. If there is a technical defect. How can I see how long my promoter membership will last?

Christoph

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I am unable to access the Pro forum as well.

The same for me. I don't have access to the proforum

Sorry guys, we have a technical issue, we're working on it.
Sorry for the inconvenience. 

@christoper, we are soon launching the new website, where you'll see everything. 
Meanwhile, would you like our support girls to contact you? 

Promember Account

Where can I see how long my primium account lasts and how can I prolong it?

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Hi dear @flo_flo in the bottom I am sharing screenshots of how to find the payment history of your pro account. You can follow this instructions and find your account info. For more info kindly contact: contact@chessmood.com.  I hope this was helpful

Can you do pro with moodcoins?

I wanted to know, could you go pro by getting 29000 moodcoins?

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thanks!

How to do it ARNAV? Plz tell.....Waiting for your reply

arnav i have asked chessmood, they said you can not.

Where is th use moodcoins?

P.S. I got 29000 moodcoins

Hello chessmood family

i have the same question , what can we do by mood coins ?

With moodcoins we can unlock the courses you go down press buy and select moodcoins option. For example, I need 5000 more to unlock one part of the Antisicilian.

. e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4. Nf3 a6 5.Bd3 Nc6 Plans for white needed

Hello, it would be great if you could give ideas and sample games for the position after 1. e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4. Nf3 a6 5.Bd3 Nc6 in an Advanced Section. The ideas with a3 and b4 do not convince me and I do not necessarily want to dive into the universe of the open Sicilian, so that 6th Be2 and 7.d4 are not necessary. Thanks in advance 

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Hey Christoph. How much is your rating? 
And what you didn't like in a3 b4 idea? 
You can just go for a search in ChessBase database, and dive deeper, if you want, or find other ideas. 

true @ChessMood_. I am not working on finding anything special in openings bec the way u presented material is crushing 2300 players lichess and I always dominate with white pieces.Also @GM_Hovhannes_Gabuzyan is crushing 2900 elo field so this means openings are rocks. Another point is @GM_Avetik_Grigoryan's win against a Candidate Challanger proves the power of Chessmood Openings. So I think when GMs are working for us in finding novelties and working on openings then all we have is to copy it.

I think i read somewhere that if you want to achieve your goals then just copy what successful people did. There is no need to invent something if u are in starting phrase! For example- we born and we learn to speak by hearing sounds of words. If it's in hindi kid will learn hindi and if it's in english then same he will learn english. So, my approach is follow successful people that's it.

@Christoph_Serrer kindly check this post. You will see how effective chessmood openings are. Now kindly don't say like oh! it was blitz but look at the GM as black. A candidate challanger against chessmood openings. So this means there is something that super GM did not knew.

 https://chessmood.com/forum/main-channel/chessmood-vs-candidate

How do good players remember their opening repertoire?

Hi Chessmood friends,

Knowing ideas behind chess opening is important, and I can learn them from Chessmood videos. 
 

But It's hard for me to remember what I have learned after a few days. 

 Any advice for firmly fixing chess openings to memory? Softwares etc?

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Try to not skip the streams, my friend, and solve the quizzes.
The 1st one is ready. https://chessmood.com/quiz/attack-with-scotch-game 

Thank you

Do you have already the pgn opening of chessmood? 

wow!thanks Skipper Chess.

GM Avetik, once in an article you mentioned how big a GM's repertoire is(it's like endless) now my Sicilian Pepertoire is also as big as yours!!

Help with 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Bb5+ as black

After 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Bb5 check what does chessmood recommend as black? what are the ideas we should go for? My opponent tonight plays 3.Bb5 check and its not in the course. He likes to take on c6 if ...Nc6 is played or exchange the bishop if  ,,,,Bd7 is played

 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Bb5 Nc6 4.Bxc6 bxc6 spoiling pawn structure or

 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Bb5 Bd7 4.Bxd7 Qxd7 5.d3 and if 5...dxe4 he is happy to go into an endgame with 6.dxe4 and 6...Qxd1

thank you

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Hello, Kayode,

very interesting question. I had no clue there is such an early check in the position too, it is such a rare move, but you have nice game, Larsen - Zu Chen (1998) in the database, where the legendary GM won with beatiful king attack. If I can advice you, play 3....Bd7 and go into the endgame, black should not be worse in any case:

1. e4 c5 2. f4 d5 3. Bb5+ Bd7

(3... Nc6 4. Bxc6+ (4.exd5! Qxd5 5. Nf3) 4... bxc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. d3 dxe4 7. dxe4 Qb6 8. Qf3 g6 9. Nge2 Bg4 10. Qf2 Bg7 11. O-O c4)

4. Bxd7+ Qxd7 5. d3 dxe4 6. dxe4 Qxd1+ 7.Kxd1 Nc6 8. Nf3

(8. c3 Nf6 9. Nd2 O-O-O 10.Kc2 e5!}     

Nf6 9. Nc3

(9. e5 Nd5 10. Ke2 e6 11. Bd2 O-O-O)

9... O-O-O+ 10. Bd2 e5! and black is OK.

Hello. Nice Question. I will try to recommend a position that I would prefer, as in general black is not gonna be worse after BB5+ . I think black should play with 3... Bd7 4.Bd7+ Qd7 5. D3 Nc6 6. Nf3 E6 and then play with 0-0-0, as there is no light-squared bishop on c8, it's easier to make a long castle, and develop bishop on D6 and Knight on E7.

AGM Title

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Hi everyone, I am sharing with you my son's achievement as FIDE Arena Grand Master. I am thankful that I enrolled my son to this awesome site, chess is not difficult to understand as long as you are watching the up to date event rendered by GM Avetik and GM Gabuzyan and even I really watching and absorbing all the live updates despite the different time zone that we have. It's my heartfelt thanks to this site that my son got another breakthrough with his chess career. I would recommend this courses to all my chess friends without hesitation.  To the staff that supports this site. thank you very much. Long live and CONGRO!

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Congratulations to your son and your whole family for this wonderful achievement!

Congratulations!!!!

It Is Great !!!!!

All The Best For Your Future!

That's amazing! Very glad to hear that!!! 
Your success is our success, guys! 

Comment your Fav. Chess Players

I decided to make this topic so we can talk more in our community. Not only about studying chess but also about legends too.

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 Player= Bobby Fischer. 

Fav. Game= Game of the century.

A Suggestion

I think that you should create a server on chessmood like chessmood's private servers where you can play games Instead of using chess.com or some other website you can play games when you stream  and also chessmood members can play against each other!

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This is a bit difficult but, you guys are truly amazing and can do it!

Yes, nice idea but it's also expensive to handle make this kind of playing website. But soon I am sure they will do it for us.

Of course, it's a good idea. 
If you have developers, who will do it for us, go ahead :) 
Otherwise it's very expensive. 

Daily Puzzle 5 June

I think yesterday's puzzle (R vs B+P) has 2 solutions.

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No I think there was only one solution, and the one given was incorrect since Black could have under-promoted to a rook thwarting the stalemate and leaving the result in doubt. Kf6 instead of Kh6 had to be correct. 

Thanks Kevin

Nightmare for Rossolimo

Hi everyone Happy evening. I have a small doubt in rossolimo course in section 2 c3

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.0-0 Bg7 5.c3 Nf6 6.Re1 0-0 7.d4 d5 8.e5 Ne4 9.Be3- immediately attacking the c5 pawn and this move has been recently played by anand and caruana in tata steel 2020

What to do against 9.Be3 guys?

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Avinash, Be3 is comparingly a new move, doesn't give much. 
Dubov showed in his games how to play. 

But anyway, we will add it in the advanced section. 

Attack the Carokann

Hello! I started with Chessmood few weeks ago and managed to go trough some of the opening analysis. I am impressed by the excellent work of our GM-s  but naturally, I have also some questions. So lets start with the CK: One of my friends, very strong Fide Master and notorious adherent of CK defence, played me last weekend in quick games an interesting line: 1.e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Qc7 6.Ne2 e6, leaving Bc8 at home. I reacted logicaly 7.Bf4 Bd6 8. Bxd6 Qxd6 9.0-0 Ne7 10.Nd2 Bd7, and here I tryed it either with 11.f4 or 11.Qc2, following our model plans,  but with some sensible defence  ( 0-0, sometimes f6 and e5, sometimes f5 and transfer of the knight to e4) black allways succeded to hold his symbolically worse position. Later I had a look to my database with engine on, but I did not find any serious way to endanger black position. Is this just a limit of this line or do you have any idea to keep the initiative for white side? Thx for your kind reactions!

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Excellent question Martin, I have been wondering this myself and started a thread about a month ago to bring it to the attention of the ChessMood Team [Thread Here:  https://chessmood.com/forum/main-channel/caro-kann-advance-section]. To be honest I haven't checked back on this line for awhile, White has more space but black is very solid with no weaknesses, and it is hard for White to make any meaningful progress. Perhaps white should try to probe the queenside at some point with a4, or even slowly prepare to advance on both wings, the danger though is in becoming too ambitious and overextending your position.

Lets hope the combined ChessMood team can eventually find some more promising ideas and concrete lines to combat Black's resilient setup. I'm curious where your FM friend found this idea, as thankfully to date this setup is still quite rare at Master level in comparison to some other more dynamic approaches.

Thank you, Kevin, we will see. :) I hope they will find something soon... We keep in touch! ;)

Very nice discussion!! 
Yeah, with this line we had troubles. White has clear advantage, but it's very unclear how to develop it. 
Black also should wait passively... Very strange position. We tried different ideas, but we are still trying. 
One of our coaches recently got access to a super computer. Hopefully, he will find something. 

how is the situation for chessmood in Corona times

I like chessmood very much and i think the founders deserve a good business..

My question is: are the founder businesslike satisfied

Keep  up the good job and stay healthy

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Hey Franck! 
Thank you very much for asking. 
It means a lot to us. 

It's very tough to run all these without investors and cover all the expenses ourselves. 
But ChessMood stays on his legs and we do our best to push forward. 
Luckily we have very cool members, a very cool community, who help us a lot: By referring to their friends, sharing Chessmood content, even helping with development. 

We just need to have more members, so it'll be easier to hire more people, more Grandmasters and produce more courses and learning material. 

All will be good! 
Thanks a lot! 

question about the anti sicilian course for black

i think i have asked this earlier, but when will you in the course the anti sicilian for black give advise for black in the  e4-c5 2 nc3-nc6 3 Bb5 variation

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You want Avetik to give you a line as White and how to beat it as Black, are you serious :D

Studying the content carefully in the White Course if you are clever gives plenty clues on how one should play as Black, or you could try some reverse engineering ;)

In any case, I think the following line offers black sufficient counterplay where all three results are possible, that's the best your'e going to get: 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Nf3 e6 5.0-0 a6 6.Bd3 Nxf3+ 7.Qxf3 Qc7 8.b3 Bd6. I'm getting a Deja vu feeling as I'm typing this, like I responded to this question before with the same line and same sample games, ohh well, no harm no foul:

Franck, we are going to re-record the sidelines course, and offer 2...Nc6 instead of 2...d6. 

Best games of May - The results!

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Thanks a lot coach for your amazing lessons. Without your support I never thought to crush 2000+ players a lot. Thanks you.

Congrats to all champions and I wish all the chessmood members will rock in their upcoming events.

I did not win sadly. but I played such good games with such good attack and also analyzed it sooo well !

Hello Sir,

Thanks So Much, Sir for your Awesome lessons.

I Have Small I Doubt how can I claim The Coins?

p.s I am New Over moodcoins

Congratulations to all the winners. Nice job

Thank you Avetik sir and all chessmood GMs.when I first joined chessmood my ratings were near 2000+ but now 2200+ in blitz. I am happy to raise 200 points within two months.I hope to cross 2300 by the end of this year.

Hard work, patience and chesmood:)

Thanks a lot sir. I can not believe that I won a prize here. This is motivated me very much. All the progress of me for your lesson and all lose is for my own mistake.

Hey sir!I had a message that I'am an awesome member and gave me 20k moodcoins.Is this my award or an another gift?

Sir I got only 20K moodcoins. Maybe their is a problem. Plz check. Thank you..

wow

i won second prize , that's fantastic 

Thanks coach , that makes me more motivated !

I also got 50k instead of 120 k

Thanks for the recognition.  I'm not as active as I'd like to be. A guy has to earn a dollar (euro, yen, whatever) but I come to the Chessmood site all the time. You guys are the best

Sorry guys, there was a mistake. 
We'll fix it now, and the missing part of the prizes. 

Congrats to all the winners! 

PROs vs GM

Hey champions! 
It was a very interesting game. 
I checked it out and added a few comments. 
See you next time :) 

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The best chess book you have ever read

ChessMood Family!
What is the best chess book you have ever read? 

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Positional Decision Making in Chess by Boris Gelfand

'' My System '' Aron Nimtzowitch

Oh wow, I have a ton of favorites! 

I guess the one that helped me the most when I started was "How to reasses your chess" by Jeremy Silman.

I went from 1400 to 1600 elo after reading that one

All books I read are the best!

:)

Pump up ur rating with axel smith

Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by John Watson

Shereshevsky - Endgame Strategy

I am in the middle of this book currently! I am sure it will be my number 1 when I am done :)

My System by Aron Nimzovitch is, by far, the book that was most influential to making me a reasonably good player.

Hello !

Which Zurich 53 ? (Bronstein/Veinstein) or Najdorf ?

https://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/john-watson-book-review-106-zurich-1953-by-najdorf

"Understanding Chess Move by Move" By John Nunn

"Chess Structures: A Grandmasters Guide" By Mauricio Flores Rios 

These are my two favorites :) 

Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein

The complete end game course by Silman

How to Reassess Your Chess: Chess Mastery Through Chess Imbalances 4th Edition

I am working on Amateur's Mind

Τhe live endgames of Mikhail Tal

Positional play by Dvoretsky and Yusupov

Logical chess move by move by irving chernev which was recommended to me .. its a good book..

Grandmaster Preparation by Jacob Aagaard, specialy attack and deffence + strategic play,

Sir is it ok if my account were register abroad?i dnt have paypal or credit cards..i only ask my frnd abroad if he will register me in your pro section...ty sir...

how to reassess your chess by Jeremy Silman,Pump your rating by Axel Smith  and Under the surface by Jan Markos

Best solving chessbooks for professional players (part - 1)

Hi , 

I am FM Nikhil Dixit from India .My current Fide rating is 2358 This is my first blog ever . in this blog i will help you with best books for professional players specially for 2000 and above .I have attached links so you can see preview or you can buy . so lets begin

1 . Perfect Your Chess by Andrei Volotikin and Vladimir Grabinksy 

This is my personal favorite chess book . In this book There are 3 chapters namely make a move , find a win , answer a question and in each chapter there are 100 puzzle . first 40 are dedicated to Fide master level . from 41 to 80 are dedicated to International master level and last 20 are dedicated to grand master level . what i particularly like about this book is in answers volotikin gives practical example which relates in life .  

http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/Perfect_Your_Chess.html

2. Recognizing Your opponent resources by Mark Dvoretsky

As we all know mark dvoretsky is best chess author ever . he have written various books on opening middle game and endgame . in this books he distributed content in 4 chapters namely 

a. Pay attention to your opponents resources 

b. the process of elimination 

c. traps

d. prophylactic thinking 

after solving this book you will learn how to find opponent resources . the book covers more than 500 problems with solutions . The first chapter of this book is difficult so my suggestion is start from last chapter otherwise you will get frustrated!

https://www.newinchess.com/recognizing-your-opponent-s-resources

3. Grandmaster preparation calculation by jacob aagaard

this is one of the bestsellers . Jacob aagaard is well known coach in world . in every book he brings excellent stuff . In this book he have given 10 chapters . in each chapters initially there where introduction and examples with solutions provided . after that there are so many practical problems given for each chapter or on each theme . this book is best for those who want to become complete master in middlegame . 10th chapter which name as difficult problems are like impossible for me . but definitely if you solve that problems your confidence level will take a boost . 

https://www.amazon.in/Calculation-Grandmaster-Preparation-Jacob-Aagaard/dp/1907982302

this is my honest reviews about this 3 books 

if you want more this type of blogs or if you have any suggestion let me know in the comment . 

if you want to read part 2 of this blog , i have attached link below 

https://www.chess.com/blog/baslyabaslya/best-solving-chess-books-for-professional-players-part-2

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Nice! 

Nice. I read it already in past from your blogs. Thanks anyways. It will be in my future list of solving books. Right now I am doing basic one!!!

Problem

Hello. l want to play as promembre with GM avetik but I don t now  what   I can do. The  link it's  not  able 

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Become a pro member and you will be able to play against him and learn from all the courses and webinars!

For more info, kindly click the link in the bottom and you will find the benefits of becoming a Pro Member!

https://chessmood.com/become-a-pro