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French attack 3.Nc3 and 6.Bg5?
Hello,
I started playing the French attack against my chess computer and after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Ng8 5.Nf3 c5 it played 6.Bg5. I wonder what the correct response to that it.
After Be7 Bxe7 the queen needs to take to protect the pawn on c5, but then she blocks e7 for the knight.
I found one game in the database (both players around 2,300 ELO) and 6….f6 was played, but after exf6 the pawn on e6 gets weak in my opinion.
Stockfish likes 6….Qc7 but after Nb5 it makes another move with the queen to b6.
Thank you!
Michael
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Hello,
After Bg5. SF reccomendation Qc7 is doable, however inhuman.
F6 does make quite some since, and either player could be outplayed there.
Really its your choice, if you prefer solid play, Qc7 is the move for you.
If you like more active play, and also more risk, then try f6.
Again its your choice.
Hope this helps.
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Hello,
Christmas is in 10 days. A nice present to offer to a chess lover would be an acces to chessmood.
Is it possible to generate chessmood gift cards? It seems to me I already saw something like that,;i do not recover it from the site.
Thank you for your help
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The 1 month free access gift is still available but it has to be activated before the 23 th of December .
Hi Olivier,
Is this the sort of gift that you are thinking of: https://chessmood.com/chess-gift
Im assuming you are looking for this page Change your chess buddy’s life (chessmood.com) Hope this helps!
SLP EXPERIMENTS
My rating online is around 2100 .Below are two slp games that I just played after learning the course .kindly see and rate them .
https://lichess.org/mNAur0VX/white
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Another one
https://lichess.org/IHoeNDuo/white#35 I forgot to mention my opponent is rated above 1850
Think faster
Hi guys, playing blitz and rapid chess in my training I've noticed that my time management in blitz is very poor. While playing rapid I can think, calculate and I never find myself in time trouble, however playing blitz I'm always low on time and I start panicking and playing moves that I wouldn't play if I had time to think. So my question is: how can I think faster in blitz?
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Let me ask you a question and I don't know your level in chess… Did you start to run before you learned to walk correctly? You asked the wrong question. You need to have more reflexes, more patterns, more knowledge of the positions to react instinctively, not to think. Blitz is not for thinking, is for fun many GMS use to say. The more you know and see, the faster and better you can play I believe.
I've always felt that blitz is much better at DEMONSTRATING already accumulated skills, while slower gameplay and other training methods actually IMPROVE chess ability.
I wonder if rating at 5+3 and 3+0 are equivalent
I noticed that GM Avetik played 3+0 in his experiment when he recommended to use 5+3 and I wonder if it is easier to get high rating at 3+0
https://chessmood.com/blog/surrender-experiment
The population who play 5+3 and the population who play 3+0 are not the same and in theory it is possible that most people can get higher rating if they stick to 3+0 and not to 5+3
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Hi Uri,
My opinion is the following, that 3+0 is a very quick time control. Assuming a person who tries to play it is a growing chess player who watches lot's of courses and acquires knowledge - in case of 3+0 it will be really hard to use the learned information, as the game from the very beginning is in time trouble conditions. 5+3 is much more flexible.
Secondly, I believe there is no need to rely on time control for the growth. If you increase you chess level through hard trainings anyways you will be stronger and automatically will start the rating gain.
Good luck!
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Holy Cow!!!... Glad you are alive and recovering now. Rest up.
Sorry to hear your news. I wish you a speedy recovery. One thought on the underlying "number" problem. Chess.com has an option of playing unrated games. It's a great way to experiment with new ideas and play just for the love of the game. Randy
Get well soon coach!
Mr. Avetik, sorry to read this, get well soon please! I almost also broke my chess back. Thank you for always motivating others with your articles even if you are in pain. Hope you will ski the next year with out considering numbers!
Dear Avetik, I am so sorry you got hurt. It sounds like you are going to be laid up for a while but hopefully you will be back on your feet soon. A bad back can haunt you for the rest of your life so please learn to be more careful! You are lucky to be alive and so is everyone in the ChessMood family! My kitty Poppy says "Get well soon!" Tim Gilbreth
Hope you will get 100 % soon . Listen to the doctors and take the time to heal . Younger , I did hurt myself quite often practicing differents sports . My main mistake was coming back too soon and / or finishing the game injured.. after over 30 differents incidents , I got my award for doing this , an ankle surgery at 29 yrs old which luckily for me solved a chronic problem . Everything was too slack around the ankle as I never took the time nor did all exercices to fully cure the problem . I got other injuries after that , but i was able to manage them better with experience ..
Dear GM Avetik, I'm sorry to hear of your injury, but glad you weren't more seriously hurt. And I'm not surprised that you are able to find a silver lining to this cloud and use it as a learning/teaching experience! Best wishes for a speedy recovery! Fortunately, chess can be played from a reclining position. Remember the student who played from his hospital bed! Randy Dixon
Dear GM Avetik, Sorry to hear of your injury. Hope you recover 100% and faster than expected. Great message in your post. Love the positivity of ChessMood and the great video lessons.
First, heal quickly and hope you don't do silly things again. Skiing has it's risks, do you remember Michael Schumacher? Learn the lesson. Second, I played chess as a youngster but then when we reach 18, the parents of my less talented team mates bought them cars and we changed the board for clubbing and long drinks. Well, I was not good at home so having fun with my friends was better than living with my family. I don't regret. What I regret? At 2010 I got a mental chronical disease called psychofrenia (spelling probably wrong), I had to cease working and I entered the peaceful life of a pensionist. I was watching TV serials and in YT basically music but once I stummbled with a chess game video and still I remember the game: Fischer-Geller, 0-1 (1967). So I began to watch chess videos too and I thought, "why don't play some friendly games online? At least you didn't do so bad when you were a youngster." And I started in FICS and then I found chessdotcom and I thought, what a nice interface, and here you can socialize and have chess friends online. So said and done, I was surprisingly playing good and I took off the dust of my Evans gambit, my favourite opening when I was a youngster (the fact is I began chess studying the games of Morphy and there are lots of Evans gambits and some other XIX popular gambits like the Kings gambit). The next step was, "why you don't play OTB? When you were a youngster there was no internet so we played OTB at school and at the club". Said and did. At the beginning of 2012 I sign for a club and already playing local tournaments. In 2013 I also played and from this two years (2012-13) are my best games ever. I didn't have fear to sacrifice and I played better with black, so my top game was a Sicilian Najdorf with black, #2 a Benko gambit with black and #3with white I don't remember the opening but vs. a +200 rated ahead of me, he lost quickly a pawn in a exchange of pieces and I won another in a nice tactic, so 2 pawns ahead he was resilent but I promote before and he had to resign. Then at the end of 2013 something horrible happened. My club was in the same neighbourhood than my apartment and they started a social tournament just to play, I mean there were no fees to pay, no prize funds, not ratings at stake, just a distraction for the members. And in Rd.1 I was paired with black to the #1seeded, a 2100 FIDE rated that I hadn't heared before and I didn't here after. Just one time he crossed in my life and left a deep sleuth of despair in my self-steem. The fact is he played 1.d3 and I said, what's that? A Pirc with white? And the rest of his opening I just remember he fianchetto on g2 and as he saw I didn't had any reasonable setup vs. this opening (as he expected) he 0-0-0 and pawn storm me. It was such a one way game that I resign on move 25 but I could have perfectly resign on move 20 or sooner. The worst had still to come. It was waiting me at home. I got my scoresheet, walk back to my apartment and as I always do, the first thing is to annotate the game in my software. Obviously it was full of bad moves but when I finished I stared to the final position and I entered in shock. My Ra8, Nb8 and Bc8 were in the initial position. Obviously he 0-0-0 and pawn storm me. My memory went backwards to the mids. 70s when I study Morphy games. I thought, "so much admiring Morphy and his dynamic play, developing faster than the opponent and now you play this shx+?" I entered in a big depression, left chess completely and go back to watch TV serials. So from 2014 to 2018 no chess at all. And as my mum had passed away recently I recall her childish brain and the weakness of her character, weakness I think I inherited because a single chess game lost was unbearable and I quit suffering a great depression. Well, this is getting too long, in 2019 I returned OTB but I wasn't prepared neither technically nor psychologically so I lost 220 pts. in 37 games played during 7 months and I told myself: "your 1780 rating was built in 2012-13. Now, after 5 years of inactivity you are another player and your strength is below 1550". So I left OTB and started studying, then I found this beautiful FB group or Endgame Studies and Compositions during the pandemic, then Chessmood appeared and now chess and me are happy together. For this, the most stupid thing I did and I regret is leaving chess at the end of 2013 for 5 years. Everytime I study I think, how many things I could have learned during the 2014-18 period. It was even not necessary going OTB. Just 5 years wasted from learning because of my weak character, like my mum. Now I am 60 and I am commited with chess, learn-practice-fix, until is time to logout. So my coloralium is: CHESS IS FOR THE TOUGH NOT THE WEAK. FISCHER CLAIMED HE WAS A TOUGH GUY AND AVETIK CONFIRMS IT. Don't care a lot about ratings. Just work on it restlessly and you will see that sooner or later your rating will follow you.
Dear GM Avetik, Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery to good health again! I hope your pain will be tolerable as you recover. And many thanks and blessings for turning your incident into a lesson of wisdom that all of us can benefit from. All of your articles, messages, and courses are inspiring, but this one particularly so! With gratitude and best wishes, Santo
Avetic, you seem like a very nice guy, and I wish you the best, but it seems like more than the numbers led to your accident. Especially as you get older, risky things, like high speed skiing, but also poor nutrition, etc., become serious risks. There are a lot of exciting, thrilling things that aren't serious health risks; as you know, this includes chess and poker.
Aah ... Dear Avetik, sounds like a very painful experience ... 😑 Wishing you a swift recovery! Thanks for the blog post. Just what I needed at this moment. I just decided to take chess back up again after a 15 year break (can you imagine?) during which I took up competitive ballroom dancing. Anyhow, after joining a chess club again and entering the local tournament I played this 90 min OTB game as black against a 2000 rated player. I was my third game after the long break. The first 2 games I won easily against lower rated opponents. 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. c3 Bg7 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 d5 6. exd5 Nf6 7. Nc3 Nxd5 8.Bb5+ Bd7 9. Bc4 Nb6 10. Bb3 O-O 11. O-O Bg4 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 Nc6 14. Rd1 Qd7 15. Be3 Na5 {heading for the weak square c4} 16. Bc2 Nac4 17. Rab1 Rac8 18. Rd3? Rc6 {trying to double up on the c-file after I checked that I could get away with an immediate d5} 19. d5 Ne5 20. Qe2 Rd6 21.Bxb6?? Nxd3 22. Bxa7 Nf4 {I saw 22. ... Nxb2 was possible but didn't like 23. Nb5 in fact not realizing my N was still being protected by the B... This bad visualisation was bound to hit much harder soon enough...} 23. Qf3 Nxd5 24. Ne4 Ra6 25. Nc5 Qc6 26. Nxa6 Qxc2 27.Rd1 e6! {Keeping the centralized N and certainly not exchanging it for the bad N on a6. Now, I started to relax...} 28. Rxd5 exd5 29. Nb4 Qxb2 {I had enough time on the clock left to try to find the much better Qc1+ Kh7 Qc7+ g3 Qa5! Qa3 Qxa3 bxa3 and Ra8 but hey, who cares, right?} 30. Nxd5 Re8 31. Kh2 Qe5+ 32. g3 h5 33. Bc5 {disaster is about to happen...} Kh8?? {Afraid of N-checks... why... ooh why?} 34. Qxf7 {the position is still a bit better for black apparently but I was so shocked and above all so disappointed in myself I couldn't think straight... spent 14 out of 16 minutes remaining for the next move... really... } Rd8? 35. Nf4! Qxc5 36. Ne6 Qe5 37. Nxd8 Qe2?? 38. Ne6 Qe5 39. Qxg6 Qb2 40. Qxh5+ and resigns. Didn't play a game since... It broke my back I guess. Reading your blog post made me think again of why I play chess in the first place. The harmony of the pieces working together, the beauty of the combinations, the endless possibilities. My grandfather was an avid chess lover too and just adored to watch ballroom dancing on television. Sadly, I never met him because he died just weeks before I was born in 1980. When I was in my early twenties, I found his old chess books in his house when my grandmother passed away. Much to my surprise I found a letter in one of the books dating back to 1943! It was a letter he received for a correspondence chess game he played during the war. Waiting there ... for more than 60 years to be found. I never knew my grandfather but surely I realised I have a lot in common with him. Thanks Avetik for reminding me of the "why" and not the "what"! Next tournament I am back in... with Chessmood and my grandfather on my shoulder 😊.
I hope you are enjoying you down time. Take time to relax. I will be 77 in 2 months and believe me, I understand what happens when you make poor decisions. I've made my share. I started playing chess as an older adult about 6 years ago and play twice a week at local community centers. I have not been bitten by the rating bug and know at my age it doesn't make sense anyway. I just enjoy improving and winning once in a while. I enjoy ChessMood very much and I think it is the best online chess venue I have ever seen. Good luck with your recovery. Mike McElvany
Good evening GM Grigoryan, I wish you smooth recovery and I hope to see you soon! I will do my best to improve in chess and make you proud! I have to go and play blitz session, time is running fast! :D :D :D :D Petrosian64
hi mr avetik wish you to be better,and if you have time can you answer the message on chess.com and lichess,i really want to talk with you
Take your time to heal and rest. Your health is the top priority. How are you feeling now? I know I have commented on lichess forum xD but i want to share this small success story with the CM family ! I ranked #20 in a rapid tournament 10+0, I lost to opponents who are lower rated than me because of the time trouble, I usually play only 15+10 and when I played this tournament I did have +5 advantage in 2 games but I couldn't convert my advantage .... I wasn't unhappy, in fact, I laughed after each game I lost xD ... after the tournament I saw another one called "ChessNetwork Rapid Weekend" I said to myself "hey lets participate, what do I have to lose" even tho the top players are 400 points higher than me" ... did u know what happened ? I ranked first !! ... like how is that even possiible !! ... I'm 1800 in lichess and my performance of the 2nd tournament was 2430 ! This is the tournament link: https://lichess.org/swiss/m2xTk4Mw and this is the best game I played in my life against 2183: https://lichess.org/lTYu51QC oh man, I can't thank you enough u and everyone who is part of the team and the community as well, so I have a question ... I know 2400 is my top performance but its not my average (real) rating but is that mean I can be able to reach 2400 in few years if I put the time and effort in my chess ? : ) again, I believe in your strength and resilience, and I know you'll recover soon ... take care
Get well soon @Avetik! And what a motivation: first think done after the accident - a new article. Wow! Re. "number" - I totally agree and can give an example. Our son (11 years old) has been playing table tennis for about 1.5 year now. In a club and in a team taking part in league games. A lot of fun for him. But lately he and the other kids are getting more and more addicted to the "TTR" (table tennis rating - more or less the same has chess). Instead of focussing on improving (and having fun) they get so much distracted by the "TTR" which is published one day after the game (and of course they got a good feeling how much the rating is to change after each game). And unfortunately, there is no draw at table tennis. So if you had a really close and great game against an opponent of your strenght you would loose points. And get angree, disappointed ... not be happy about a good and close game ... And they constantly compare their own TTR with the one of the team mates. Not too good for the team spirit.
Get well soon Avetik!
Get well soon GM Avetik
Hi Avetik Sure hope you feel better soon! I'm sure you're already dreaming about your next adventure but one word of caution: we're (mostly) all getting older here and are not 18 and made of silicone! Guess I should have posted my well wishes on the main channel, not the Pro.😁
So sorry Avetik! Hope you get much better soon! This must be tough.
Good luck in your recovery Avetik. I'm a keen skier too and have had a couple of accidents on the piste - though thankfully nothing as painful as what you have now. Don't let it stop you skiing in the future - delete that app and just enjoy the mountains!
Extremely good article nice highlighting the problems of constant focusing on the rating, and good luck in your recovery.
I don't know what to do, I love chess so so much but I HATE my elo rating. I wish I never ever discovered elo rating because if it didn't exist I would feel like I am semi-decent at chess. But my elo reveals me to be horrible. And it makes me not want to play sometimes.. what do I do about this??
Hi Coach😀 Hope you have been recovering well. Thanks chessmood and team, for the articles and the courses. The rating boosters are especially helpful. Middlegame mastery is interesting as well (Wolf of the Chess street! Transformation! WOW😍 ) Soon, I will be participating in the Malaysian Chess Championship 2023 https://chess-results.com/tnr759011.aspx?lan=1 Constant Growth 😄 Best Regard, YEAP, Eng Chiam
Hopefully you are doing well master
I got a link for the thanksgiving gift. How do i access it?
Ok, so i got a thanksgiving gift link from IM_ShahinyanChessMood, and i at first thought i got a free membership (cuz in the message it said so) till 22 dec. or for a month. But i don't think i got any course or something. So how do i access my free gift?
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So you can go at your profile, click at “gifts” and then click "activate" at the one gift that will appear. When you do so, you have access to all the courses until 23 December.
If you can't find this, click the gift button on the right top of the page and you will be immediately redirected there(profile→ gifts) . Then just click "activate" as before.
New success story: Raising 500+ points against all odds and becoming FM
What would you do if you were stuck in the hospital with a terrible fever?
When one of our students was in this situation, he saw an opportunity to do more chess – so he opened an app and start playing online! 😁
Later the same day, he messaged his coach to continue their scheduled lesson. And they had a lesson when he was in the hospital!
There was something special about this kid, Prin Laohawirapap!
With this dedication, it wasn’t surprising when he raised over 500 elo points and became the youngest FM of Thailand! 💪
He knew how to fight when the odds were against him!
✅Even if Prin didn’t have a lot of chances to play in strong tournaments, he found a way to raise 500 elo!
✅Even if Prin spent more than half his day at school, he found a way to study chess!
✅Even when Prin was in the hospital, and most doctors would advise him to take a rest, he saw an opportunity to study chess!
There’s a lot you can learn from his approach to chess! Read his full story 👇
https://chessmood.com/feedback/prin-laohawirapap
And share your thoughts under this forum thread!
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Great story! Very inspiring! Composition 1: Qa8! Composition 2: Nxb5 Rxc1 Ba3!
Very inspiring! 1)Qd8! 2)Nxb5,RxR, intermediate move Ba3!
Great job Prin! Keep on👏👏👏👏 In 1st game Qa8 should save the position (I considered Qd8 but simply Rd8 and Qb7 but again... simply Qb7) In 2nd game Nb5, if Rc1 Nd6+ Ke7 Ba3! and # might follow... for example if Rc6 Nf5++ Ke8 Ng7#, so black needs to make a hole for his king and we take back Rc1. Again... congratulations Prin👏👏
Unfortunately I can't do any chess at my school:) My teacher watches me like a hawk.
If not mistaken, he will be able to get the IM title by being the champion of U18 Continental tournament:
https://chess-results.com/tnr801262.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&turdet=YES&flag=30
https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B01DirectTitles2017
Maybe you can change the title (of the article and his) soon, congratulations =)
True!
We'll need to interview and change it.
But my guess is he'll be a Grandmaster in 2025.
So maybe we wait :)
about the new article of earning elo in lichess
I do not think it is so simple.
If you play when you are tired then it is simple but many players do not play when they are tired.
I could memorize the simplified opening repertoire for white and for black and solved the quiz again and again until I got no mistakes.
It does not mean that I am sure I memorized all of it(because maybe in a different order of the problem in the quiz I can fail in few positions) but usually I remember what to do even if there are some cases that I need to think a few seconds and the move is not the first move that comes to my mind.
For my rating in lichess I see no significant improvement so far and I do not see that I generally win the opening phase(and note that I analyze every game to see what went wrong with engines so do not play a game immediately after I finished a game.
Some comments about the first 5 games that I played today out of 9.
game 1:https://lichess.org/HwtWKrJI/white
relatively good game. I won from the opening(I am clearly better from move 11 and winning at move 15)
Note that I saw the tactics of 16.Rxf5 exf5 17.Nd5 and if it was the only way to win I would play it but thought 16.Rf4 also win and I prefer to win without sacrificing pieces if I can because I am afraid I may miss counter sacrifice.
game 2:https://lichess.org/d8bs8ycz/black
I won against a weaker player but I cannot say I won the opening phase.
12…e5 was a non accurate and allow white to get the advantage by 13.d4 or 13.Nxe5 that my opponent did not find(I thought during the opponent move about 13.Nxe5 and not in my time).
Ir was better to play 12…Qe8
18…Qg6 is another positional mistake and after 19.c5 my opponent got the advantage.
I am not going to mention every non accurate move but 25…Rb3 was a big mistake and I started to calculate 26.Rxa6 that my opponent did not play only when it was my opponent to move
I also blundered by 27…Rd3 instead of 27…Bd3 that could win the game.
Fortunately my opponent did the last mistake so I won the game.
game 3: draw against a player with almost 2200.
https://lichess.org/kf7p6CSB/black
I won the opening stage and could win a piece by 13…f6 14.Qxd5 Bxd5 15.Ng4 Bxf3 16.gxf3 h5 17.Ne3 g5 18.Bg3 h4 but I do not see these long
tactics in games.
Unfortunately I did not consider 13…f6 in the game because of thinking that I need to develop my pieces and f6 block the f6 square for the knight(13…Nf6 14.Qc2 is not better than Qxd1 and it is the main alternative that I considered).
Fortunately my opponent miss his chances in the endgame and it was a draw.
game 4:loss
https://lichess.org/kpooflB6XK86
I got a slighly better position from the opening.
My trouble started with 10…Ng4 and thanks to my poor positional understanding thought that after 11.h3 Nf6 white weakened the king safety but the engine say that I lost the advantage.
later my opponent also did positional mistakes and 19…Be6 was better.
I did not play 19…Be6 because I did not like 20.Rb5 with threats against both b7 and e5 but I did not see that I can play in this line 20…Bc4 21.Rxb7 Nd8 when the white rook is trapped.
29…b5 is a blunder that allow my opponent 30.Qd3(I suspect during the game that it may be a positional mistake but was in time trouble and did not have time to think about a better move).
my opponent also did not take advantage of it and my last blunder was 33…Qd6 I did not like a passed pawn that white get after Nxe6 and had to make a move not to lose on time. Nxe6 like e4 has evaluation of 0.00 but I did not have time to think.
game 5:
https://lichess.org/Ao7aUWIO/white
I won inspite of having a bad position.
I could get the advantage by 7.e5 based on the engine but I am not sure when to play 7.e5 and when to play 7.f5 that is the main idea that I saw in the course.
My mistake in the opening was 9.exd5 when I planned to win a pawn by 9…exd5 10.Nxd5 but understood only after I played it that it does not work because of the fork with the queen.
I could play 10.Bxd5 that was better than what I played but did not like this move and thought initially that Qc5+ is also win a piece in this case(I saw only in the time of the opponent move after playing 10.Re1 that 10.Bxd5 does not lose a piece but it was too late).
I saw during the game that 40…Bg1+ is winning but continued to play maybe my opponent does not see it and later won an endgame when I was a pawn down inspite of being in a serious time trouble.
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GM Avetik is the coach of the month on chess.com!
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Just a doubt! The recommendation page [suggested in chess.com] has books but I just wanted to know if it is based on chess.com, FIDE or lichess ratings. Thanks for the great insights in the article.
Thanks in advance!
Congratulations! It s well deserve . This is a big exposure for chessmood .
Congratulations Avetik, I also vote him coach of the year!
Hohvannes is GMC (Grandmastercoach) for 2024!
Huge Kudos! GM Avetik really deserved it!
Hovhannes sir will win it next year
something in the article seems wrong for me.
“A year later, at 7.5 years old, I got my first official national rating (equivalent to FIDE rating): 2000!”
I do not know a single 7.5 years old today with fide rating close to 2000 and I searched the fide rating list for players with year birth 2016 or earlier(2015 is already at least 7 years and 10 month old)
The leader has rating that is slightly less than 1700.
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/651088894
I know that young players have often fide rating that is lower than their real level but I also believe that today the top young players can get faster improvement thanks to the help of computers so I cannot believe that a 7.5 years old could be close to a level of fide rating 2000 many years ago so I guess something is wrong in the conversion of official national rating to fide rating(or maybe the national rating system in armenia gave initial rating that is too high).
There ought to be some way we could get Avetik something nice. A case of beer or whatever he wants.
I just finished the ‘annihilations’ section in Tactic Ninja and I managed to do a nice one on my opponent while playing blitz!
I hope everyone has heard of “Alexander The Great”.Has anyone heard of “Grigoryan The Great”?I have I have .😁😁
My game 1
Here, it's one of my chess.com rapid game. I played with the name Chisti123.
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/95977449681?tab=review
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Hello, you can upload it in the tread about the best games of this month so that more people see it and so that it is considered in the competition for the best games of this month.
Link here: https://chessmood.com/forum/main-channel/the-best-games-of-december-2023-and-the-prizes
Who were the 3 strongest player you have played against
Online games and OTB games count.
For me it was:
- Alireza Firouzja
- Vladislav Artemiev
- Alexey Serana
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Certificates
I just finished the amazing SLP Method course, and I took the quiz (and got 68/68). It showed that I will receive a certificate and I should wait for a few minutes. After half an hour, the certificate has loaded into my profile. However, when I download it, it is blank. Are the certificates not fully ready, or should I keep wating?
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Thanks Qixuan for your post.
We just realized that there was a bug regarding the certificates now. We'll fix it as soon as possible.
Thanks again!!!! 😀
The best games of November, 2023, and the prizes
Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions!
Welcome to the "Best games of November, 2023" competition.
Under this post, we invite you to post the best games that you will play this month.
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 October, 2023:
Manolis Kouk
Mateo Jackson
Wim van Denderen
Regis H
Ovi Sacasan
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Nice french attack https://lichess.org/8ym1DGOa/black#126
King hunt CM French Attack
https://lichess.org/wVJFFQE8/black#70
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/92662282325?tab=review&move=32&tab=review&classification=greatfind&autorun=true Really strong Schlechter variation against French defense ! Thank you Avetik and Chessmood family! A short dutch attack https://lichess.org/8iVCpQ4c/black#23 Power of the bishop pair! Opponent collapsed https://www.chess.com/live/game/92670638331 This is one of my best tactical based game ever played .I won't say much but I would request everyone to look at it .We all respect chessmood and their coaches not just like that .it's for a reason .Their courses makes u a lot better . https://lichess.org/RjBVjzfs/black
Anti sicilian 2: pawn storm https://lichess.org/T6t0aVlS/white#67
French attack massacre
https://lichess.org/0ACGassl/black#92
Fun with the Grand Prix:
https://www.chess.com/game/daily/573652759
Thanks for the info I’ll post my game here
[Event "Rated Blitz game"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/CNYq6eOn"]
[Date "2023.11.02"]
[White "yars995"]
[Black "TheIvke"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2023.11.02"]
[UTCTime "19:20:47"]
[WhiteElo "1960"]
[BlackElo "1942"]
A very nice game illustrating my superior bishop vs opponents inferior knight .one bad move by opponent his knight was kept in jail for ever .
https://lichess.org/P6J7In5q/black
Attacking the modern.
The computer gives 23.Rxf5 as an improvement, beautiful but not sure how a human could see this in a blitz!
https://www.chess.com/live/game/92850672325
I really enjoyed this Dutch Attack! https://lichess.org/1XF8CajM5X1p 😃
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/92935852503?tab=analysis&move=57
dutch against 1.c4 e6 2.g3 with the basic black mood repertoire .
i played a rare positional game and used tactics to get an edge . I especially like my last move which made him resigned! Big thanks to the tactic ninja and mating matador course . As it was a slow pace game , I had time to use the 7 Q methot in different position and it really helped me to find the right continuation . First was on move 13.. when I did exchange a knight despite having a space advantage. I figured out that mine was going to be lesser than his if I avoided the trade. Usually when I think I have a certain advantage ( bishop pair for example ) I have problem to let it go if the position ask for it ! Move 20 .. f4 took me so long to be played but I went with the happy piece idea and TV concept ! 21… Bxh3 was also a difficult decision but this knight was helping his defense and my bishop was bad . I was giving activity to his bishop but it was working almost alone so I went for the endgame grapping a free pawn on f2 with the idea of coming back to block the long dark square diagonal to prevent any attempt from the queen to get back in play ! A practical decision ( engine was saying Qe3 is better ) thanks to the WWP course ! As you can see ( if you read till the end… lol 😂) this game is a little bit of so many great stuff I learned on chessmood since march . Thank you very much to all of you !
https://www.chess.com/game/live/93015792949
i played quite aggressively ! I even tried to go for checkmate instead of taking the queen but at the end I took it anyway ! I let opponent forked me with a pawn but surprisingly it s a blunder for black !
I won a pawn after the opening. Opponent's king was a little weak but he just hung his queen. I didn't play the best though.
https://lichess.org/gDK4muCpFNqU
https://lichess.org/study/rMpjAjjB/dMlTyxFM Positional Alapin with Black, Rapid, 8min 4sec
https://www.chess.com/game/live/93066144167
big pressure on kingside with white, took some pawns with tactics and found a nice way to force checkmate at the end .
Had a good game in Dutch Defense with 2 pieces sacrifice. thanks coach for guiding us the attacking line of Dutch :-)
https://lichess.org/tvBlbuQvCCut
Dutch attack against a london lover https://lichess.org/ef4pMJZ8/black#110
Check out this #chess game: Tigleon52 vs Avirx - https://www.chess.com/live/game/93224529581
Check out this #chess game: Tigleon52 vs dememem - https://www.chess.com/live/game/93229279581
french, 2 nice CM tactics 😄
https://lichess.org/jXZJmVycaErx
One of my favourite blitz game (which was vs an IM)
https://lichess.org/VwVopCqA
https://lichess.org/yyR46ait/white check out this game on lichess
https://lichess.org/UXwurMP3WSW2 Check out this #lichess game
Tactic Ninja rocks !!
O inaccuracies 0 mistakes 0 blunders .
https://lichess.org/Wf16GAfS/black#46
How fast things can go wrong in otb CM Antisicilian…
in this game, black space on king side was worth a rock: the ne3 is also a strong beast:
https://lichess.org/HQTGvdgUq9bo
in this game, black leads a french attack with no mercy. white reduced to passivity. (bad that black miss the mate at move 21..
https://lichess.org/dqWnvuyGj6gz
one good scandinavian with a trick :https://lichess.org/RERxWOn7MUDR
https://lichess.org/AT6asPhM/ This game wasn't with chessmood openings but I still like it.
Scandi
https://www.chess.com/live/game/93363538945
A nice Benko. In Blitz I keep forgetting to exchange the f1 bishop, sorry.
But otherwise my best Benko.
Mikhail_MH_Tal vs ARMANDAS_130: Benko Gambit Accepted: Yugoslav • lichess.org
Attacking with the Dutch Attack: https://lichess.org/bw3QNQxw/black
SLP works….
https://lichess.org/8OywpF3M/black#0
Nice Attack, and Rook sac for defender, for mate in CM Sicilian closed.
https://lichess.org/ZHNU1I6l/white#0
My best game of this month so far, nothing special exept of a very common tactical pattern with Bxc5.
https://lichess.org/c34k1puV/white#107
😀
A nice win against the Alekine, played the chessmood gambit. After 10 moves stockfish has me up 4.3.
Mate in 15.
Slaughter!!
https://lichess.org/qJmCfBIE/white#20
A very nice French Attack: https://lichess.org/4Y9r8WEo/black 😃
French attack baby :) Chess: thegamebunker vs Meshnus - 93683361331 - Chess.com
Scotch
https://www.chess.com/live/game/93711550009
French Attack Exchange variation https://lichess.org/P97xB7zv/black 😃
Check out this #chess game: Tigleon52 vs unhappykiddo - https://www.chess.com/live/game/93752338027
Messy Antisicilian ;)
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/93757775697?tab=review
SLP against GM
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/93758998503?tab=review
Tried this cochrane gambit, i think it worked:
https://lichess.org/xF41vLLT/white#85 Have a good day
Unusual checkmate in CM scotch
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/93770986959?tab=review
A good french attack against the dogmatic tarrasch variation.
https://lichess.org/l4gbLNI2/black#5
French miniature of 14 moves……
https://www.chess.com/game/live/93787133113
Anti sicilian part 1
https://lichess.org/FuZ3l8TG/white#28
https://www.chess.com/game/live/93859729893 Thank you
https://www.chess.com/game/live/93922703553
Scotch , potter variation ! Bxf2 ?! I applied the WWP and played a solid game ! the kind of game I used to blunder and lose too often but not this time , thanks to the ChessMood courses !
A very nice and practical queen sacrifice in the scotch game .once I got the initiative I never let it go.
https://lichess.org/NAe9RLkL/white
H4 scotch and a black king mated on h3 or h2
https://lichess.org/bYHO3GC1/white#51
Very accurate game, nothing special, my opponent collapsed because of tunnel vision (he didn't even consider if I had a threat wich I did :>)
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/93963737989?tab=review&move=30
Slp (after bad playin dutch attack) and resilience.. https://lichess.org/yq7s3lQb/black
Slp night . Nice checkmate
https://lichess.org/DDB5p6R6/white
Sicilian
https://www.chess.com/live/game/93992494145 Rxf5 plays itself!
https://www.chess.com/game/live/93989514137 Int. Sicilian
https://lichess.org/U85sZxG5
https://www.chess.com/game/live/94012326847
my most solid game with the stonewall so far !
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94049621841?tab=review
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94080214965?tab=analysis&move=47
Solid play in the opening and middlegame set up a nice deflection tactic on move 24. I gave my opponent more chances than deserved in the endgame in mutual time trouble, but was on the whole a game I'm very proud of.
Thanks, Jake
https://www.chess.com/game/live/94091556725
a win with black in the French attack exchange variation under 20 moves. I could have push g5 early and should have defended f7 by Nd8 but I could not hold myself and gave an exchange and a bishop on h3 . My opponent blundered with Bf3 but I love so much that mating pattern of Q+B that I m showing this game anyway !
https://lichess.org/aJwXGKQT/white#51
Nice game in CM opening Scoch.
https://lichess.org/LYKKjDDk
Also, a nice game CM opening.
https://lichess.org/bxPFPMy9
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94164784233?tab=review&move=33
my best game in this variant . Close sicilian with Bxc6 and Nf6 e5 Nh5 . After some bad experiences with a too early g4 , I finally learned to play Nf3 and he rewarded me with Bg7 , leaving no square for his last horse !
a good attacking game: antisicilian part 5: danger at the h line: do not castle there: https://lichess.org/igodMlPlMMB3
https://lichess.org/67wjVuaT/white
Round 1 of 4NCL 2023-4 - missed a couple of opportunities but still won convincingly.
Round 2 of 4NCL 2023-4 - a nice win in the second round, this time for the 1st team. A couple of minor errors which the opponent failed to see, and the rest was pretty much quintessential strategic play of tying the opponent down to the defence then going for something on the other side of the board and back again. A candidate for a Scotch Bc5 model game.
NB. Time control is 1hr:40min+30seconds for 40 moves, then 50 minutes bonus.
Nice Attack, and two nice tactics😃
https://lichess.org/nTUqZasV
https://lichess.org/S8w25rglwbjp French Defense with Black, with queenside battle
Dominating The Stafford Gambit.
https://lichess.org/TBB0eyox/white#0.
A nice win against the Sicilian 2..Nc6 line. 95% accuracy, some nice tactics.
https://lichess.org/XPVjYaUd/white#57
I know it's a bullet game but it was a nice French Attack.
https://lichess.org/GQE9P62u/black#0.
Check out this #chess game: Tigleon52 vs RaskinAnatolii - https://www.chess.com/live/game/94327992011
Check out this #chess game: rickymase5 vs Tigleon52 - https://www.chess.com/live/game/94346499285
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94353139339?tab=review&move=99 Just wild!
French exchange. Simply wow!
https://lichess.org/lq9mSZRB/black#0
https://www.chess.com/game/live/94389671519
My first game ever in the sicilian lowenthal! To sweeten the deal, I won this game, that too against an FM!
A great surprise weapon, this FM didnt have a clue as to how to play against it
Check out this #chess game: Jzaff1995 vs glittercuffs_mcgee - https://www.chess.com/live/game/94407158309
And another French Attack in The Exchange line.
https://lichess.org/Ab2BHSvC/black#0.
Nice Attack, for the exchang.
https://lichess.org/yRtfAdpZWzBe
A nice in The Exchange French in a bullet game (2+1).
https://lichess.org/GQE9P62u/black#0. It works!
https://www.chess.com/game/live/94467711947
A brilliant miniature after a series of sub-par moves by my opponent!
In the first game, I really liked my idea of attacking on the kingside with h4 and g4. In the second game, I played a great queen sacrifice against Najdorf. https://lichess.org/3PuBl04e/white#59
Last game from Titled Tuesday…. against Nakamura’s wife ;))
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94349573003?tab=review&move=0
Model game from Titled Tuesday in CM Antisilian
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94348381163?tab=review
How many pieces your opponent can sacrifice in one game?
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94283567197?tab=review
Fun game #2 in CM Antisicilian against the same opponent :))
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94279931665?tab=review
Fun game full of mistakes in CM Antisicilian
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94279299503?tab=review
B06: Modern Defense
Krayushkin, Igor (1658) - Chan, John (1513) [2h+d5/G] Mechanics Institute Winter Tuesday Night Marathon, 3rd Round, San Francisco, 11 /21 /23. 1-0.
Nothing special. Only playing actively simple chess.
https://lichess.org/Q2cw26vF/black#0.
Really nice attack with black in the exchange Caro-Kann, including a queen sac and checkmate with a pawn :)
https://www.chess.com/game/live/94550892287
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/56539191917?tab=review
One of my best games that i could give…
https://www.chess.com/game/live/56202828629
Here is another great attack by keeping his king uncastled…
https://www.chess.com/analysis/library/2kiXdvaCJS?tab=analysis
One of my great games of this november…
Here is a game I played OTB a couple of weeks ago in the Scotch game.
When opponent makes things easier in The Scotch.
https://lichess.org/UVNQvImt/white#0.
Nice win against an FM in the Grand Prix Attack!
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94597231665?tab=analysis&move=49
My best game this month: https://lichess.org/FsGKjdmT A very nice Anti-Sicilian 😃
Hunting the king in the middle of the board
https://www.chess.com/live/game/94675218369
Even if everything wasn't perfect I m always amazed how easy you can push opponents to make mistakes in Benko.
https://lichess.org/0KyxbfOw/black#0.
Here a second example on how it's easy to play Benko.
https://lichess.org/kOCGSX2I/black#0.
I played this game in World Youth Championship.
Round 10, Board 13:- Gvatua, Mariam - Shubhi, Gupta 0-1
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-youth-championship-2023--g16/round-10/1fSdmXmt
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/93899997445?tab=analysis&move=79
Excuse the bullet time control, but I had an amazing attack and played a knight underpromotion that was technically the best move!
Playing actively and dominate opponent in The French Attack.
https://lichess.org/KuCYiWlO/black#0.
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94080214965?tab=analysis&move=47
Here is a game I'm very proud of. I neutralized the London System as black, and my solid play ultimately set up a deflection tactic in the middlegame. I almost blundered away the resulting rook endgame in mutual time trouble, but ended up converting a very pleasing game.
Thanks! - Jake
Here is a fun game against the Petroff!
In this game after a bad opening I liked how I was patient and continued putting pressure on opponent till recovering from a bad position.
https://lichess.org/uhbbZGJo/black#0.
I got a good position in this game but unfortunately allowed a tactic with which I lost a piece.But still I did not lose my hopes,and quickly got into SLP mode! Even after a piece down I started pressurizing my opponent and he was almost lost, but because of my time pressure…..
[Event "Rapid Tournament"]
[Site "lichess.org"]
[Date "2023.11.23"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Catch31"]
[Black "dhi23"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2112"]
[BlackElo "2018"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2023.??.??"]
[EventType "rapid"]
[TimeControl "10+2"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 a6 7. Nbd2 Ba7 8. Re1 h6 9. d4 O-O 10. Nf1 Bg4 11. d5 Ne7 12. h3 Bh5 13. Ng3 Bg6 14. Qe2 Nh7 15. Bd3 Qd7 16. h4 f5 17. h5 f4 18. hxg6 Nxg6 19. Nf5 Ne7 20. Nxe7+ Qxe7 21. c4 Rf6 22. Nh4 Ng5 23. Qg4 Qf7 24. Be2 Nxe4 25. Rf1 Ng3 26. Re1 h5 27. Qh3 e4 28. b4 Nxe2+ 29. Rxe2 f3 30. Rxe4 fxg2 31. Be3 Rxf2 32. Nxg2 Rf3 33. Qe6 Bxe3+ 34. Rxe3 Qxe6 35. dxe6 Rf6 36. Rae1 Re8 37. e7 Kf7 38. c5 dxc5 39. bxc5 Rc6 40. Rf1+ Kg8 41. Nf4 {Time forfeit} 1-0
https://lichess.org/cWe00B95JH8P Slow Destroying Not Chessmood Prep but my own Played as White https://lichess.org/bsGxJq4kg5TI Destroying for not following opening principles and Not Chessmood Prep but my own Played as white 😀https://lichess.org/bsGxJq4kg5TI played as black Crushed Punished For not following openign principles : Played as white https://lichess.org/QR6q80r1HMC3 Played as White https://lichess.org/W2n2GbDFX4kk Played as White
https://lichess.org/RePMoL6UgonJ
https://lichess.org/OEkDrDKQHC5X Played as White
https://lichess.org/mOwyKIvhiQ0L Played as White
https://lichess.org/S94jlOm1EROO Played as White
https://lichess.org/3l9cFTOOBTx1 Played as White
https://lichess.org/OLN9aKU9Tb1w Played as Black
https://lichess.org/FUO22mFPctg8 Played as Black
https://lichess.org/olWQ0YouelXd Played as Black
https://lichess.org/pt4l1q6TkhMJ Played as Black
https://lichess.org/5SZrvbBerTIj Played as Black
https://lichess.org/YGXbyKNpQTKm Played as Black
Not the best play but it's always always a pleasure to dominate a Sicilian.
https://lichess.org/540EKah3/white#0.
Another bullet in Sicilian Closed (2m+1s).
https://lichess.org/iR5Ve2bZ/white#0.
Fun sequence after Nxd5
https://www.chess.com/live/game/94828232617
A very easy win with the Anti-Sicilian: https://lichess.org/ifzHkhMh 😃
Nice win in Benko against an FM (Tournament Game)
Not the best play. Still it's always a pleasure to dominate a Sicilian.
https://lichess.org/540EKah3/white#0.
https://www.chess.com/game/live/94883293887
This can’t be best game of the month but I think have chances for slp of the year ! My opponent was 300 pts higher than me , had plenty of time left and i was playing in time pressure . after some very bad play from me , I went into slp mode and he was not able to win nor even draw which is almost even worse at the end !
This game was also played in World Youth Championship.
Round 5, Board 9:- Shubhi, Gupta - Bruessow, Nina 1-0
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-youth-championship-2023--g16/round-5/b8Crm7dW
It was a Philidor Promenade even if not perfect:
https://lichess.org/LHlQ7ZTt/white#0.
Was playing with black and my first game in the French Team (for Annemasse board 3) in Chambery. We played with 1hour penalty because of late arrival.. (1h30 – 30min) plus 30 sec per game (and 30min after move 40). Anyway, was happy with the Dutch stonewall attack and not messing it up. Missed the stronger lines but was good enough.
Recovering from a bad position in The Benko Gambit.
https://lichess.org/l2iChwzU/black#0.
First of all, don't know if I'm still in time and if the right way to answer (I apologize, I'm new). This is my game, not so precise, but a good holding of a lost position and finally a victory over the mistake of my opponent: https://www.chess.com/game/live/94586366145
Alexander Alekhine must be rolling over in his grave! totally brutalized his namesake opening lol
Check out this #chess game: Tigleon52 vs IvanIvanovAngelov - https://www.chess.com/live/game/94942813281
I've never thaught I could dominate an opponent in such easy way with Black. Benko/ Declined.
https://lichess.org/7zmESZPm/black#0.
And a second Benko / Declined in a row!
https://lichess.org/w3vpetBN/black#0.
The power of CM Antisicilian
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94956556693?tab=review
Plenty of mistakes but mating matador came in to the rescue!
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94964932287?tab=review
https://lichess.org/Eu6kScanCb8F Played white
https://lichess.org/vUnfU9zzmDFV Sac left right and center! Played white
A game plyed with The Scandinavian. It wasn't perfect but I took some pleasure.
https://lichess.org/IbGy2ZnR/white#0.
Caro kann, passive set-up so I went after the King
14.Bxh7 is a classic; 19.Bf4 to keep an escape square for the queen in case of Rh8 and 21.Rxe6 to make him depressed (saw Nxf7 too but threatening the Q/K fork felt better from psychological point of view and he collapsed… :-)
https://www.chess.com/live/game/95009990709
https://www.chess.com/game/live/95010613673
I think I played a great game against Sicilian here.
https://lichess.org/AvBwGjMH/white#0.
Picture perfect scotch game .100% Accuracy .Thank you big bro Mr Avetik Grigoryan .
https://lichess.org/7GnHAkik/white
Just a very solid game using whitemood Caro crusher. Variant
thanks guys Check out this #chess game: Tigleon52 vs DonnieDarko2864212 - https://www.chess.com/live/game/95018311373
Black mood needed a chance
Check out this #chess game: EnchantedBowler vs Tigleon52 - https://www.chess.com/live/game/95019527227 thanks guys
My first game in Pasini Variation in The Modern Pirc. It was a delightful moment! A big thanks to GM Avetik and Nicolo Pasini..Maybe the most exciting opening I've ever seen.
https://lichess.org/JCQT5mTQ/white.
I'm 1800 on chess.com blitz, but I just beat a 2450 CM! It was a very questionable opening, but my tactics broke through in the middle game and I got one of my biggest wins ever!
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/95046501533?tab=analysis&move=57
SILENT KILLER AND STRONG MOVES ONE AFTER THE ANOTHER
https://lichess.org/r8wUFUJ2/white
https://lichess.org/UBMcebDX/white#83 Very Accurate game
Dominating a Caro-Kahn easily.
https://lichess.org/FPyITzbl/white#0.
Don't know what happened to me .So accurate games today .This game is of the chessmood caro kann variation.
https://lichess.org/7LiqHBM3/white
I have a few entries.
From a recent OTB event I played. The game was 45+10, and I felt I played pretty well.
1. e4 { [%eval 0.36] } 1... c6 { [%eval 0.37] } 2. d4 { [%eval 0.41] } 2... d5 { [%eval 0.28] } 3. exd5 { [%eval 0.35] } 3... cxd5 { [%eval 0.33] } 4. c4 { [%eval 0.0] } 4... dxc4?! { [%eval 0.58] } { Inaccuracy. Nf6 was best. } (4... Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be3 e6 8. c5 Bxf3 9. Qxf3) 5. Bxc4 { [%eval 0.17] } 5... Qc7 { [%eval 0.47] } 6. Qc2 { [%eval 0.36] } 6... Nc6 { [%eval 0.42] } 7. Bb5?! { [%eval -0.14] } { Inaccuracy. Nf3 was best. } (7. Nf3) (7. d5 Nd4) 7... Qa5+?! { [%eval 0.7] } { Inaccuracy. Bd7 was best. } (7... Bd7 8. Nf3 Nf6 9. O-O e6 10. a3 a6 11. Bd3 h6 12. Re1 Bd6 13. Nbd2 Ne7 14. Nc4) 8. Nc3 { [%eval 0.72] } 8... Bd7 { [%eval 0.97] } 9. Nf3 { [%eval 1.21] } 9... e6 { [%eval 1.7] } 10. O-O?! { [%eval 1.04] } { Inaccuracy. d5 was best. } (10. d5 exd5 11. Qe2+ Nge7 12. Bd2 Qd8 13. O-O a6 14. Ba4 Be6 15. Rfe1 Qd6 16. Rad1 O-O-O) 10... Nf6 { [%eval 1.07] } 11. Bd2?! { [%eval 0.34] } { Inaccuracy. Rd1 was best. } { [%csl Gc7][%cal Gc3d5] } (11. Rd1 a6 12. Bc4 Be7 13. Bg5 Rc8 14. Qe2 O-O 15. d5 exd5 16. Nxd5 Rce8 17. Ne5 Nxe5) 11... Bb4 { [%eval 0.53] } 12. a3?! { [%eval -0.53] } { Inaccuracy. d5 was best. } (12. d5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 exd5 14. Bxb4 Qxb4 15. Bxc6 Bxc6 16. a3 Qd6 17. Rfe1+ Kf8 18. Re3 h5) 12... Bxc3 { [%eval -0.57] } 13. Bxc6 { [%eval -0.48] } 13... Bxc6 { [%eval -0.47] } 14. Bxc3 { [%eval -0.57] } 14... Qh5?! { [%eval 0.0] } { Inaccuracy. Qd5 was best. } (14... Qd5 15. Rfe1) 15. Ne5 { [%eval 0.0] } 15... Ng4 { [%eval 0.0] } 16. Nxg4 { [%eval -0.1] } 16... Qxg4 { [%eval -0.05] } 17. f3 { [%eval -0.12] } 17... Qg6 { [%eval 0.02] } 18. Qf2 { [%eval -0.28] } 18... O-O { [%eval -0.23] } 19. Bb4 { [%eval -0.28] } 19... Rfd8 { [%eval -0.21] } 20. Rac1 { [%eval -0.47] } 20... Rac8 { [%eval -0.2] } 21. Rfe1 { [%eval -0.22] } 21... Bd5 { [%eval -0.02] } 22. Bc5 { [%eval -0.25] } 22... a6 { [%eval -0.09] } 23. a4 { [%eval -0.25] } 23... Rc6 { [%eval -0.37] } 24. a5 { [%eval -0.19] } 24... Rdc8 { [%eval -0.32] } 25. b4 { [%eval -0.19] } 25... h6 { [%eval -0.2] } 26. Rc3 { [%eval -0.28] } 26... b6 { [%eval 0.01] } 27. axb6 { [%eval 0.07] } 27... Rxb6 { [%eval 0.01] } 28. Ra3 { [%eval 0.03] } 28... Rbc6 { [%eval 0.03] } 29. Qe2 { [%eval 0.06] } 29... R8c7 { [%eval 0.27] } 30. Rea1 { [%eval 0.33] } 30... Kh7 { [%eval 0.52] } 31. Rxa6 { [%eval 0.46] } 31... Rxa6 { [%eval 0.38] } 32. Rxa6 { [%eval 0.39] } 32... Rb7 { [%eval 0.4] } 33. Ra1 { [%eval 0.44] [%cal Ge2f1,Gf1b1] } 33... Bc6 { [%eval 0.47] } 34. Qf1 { [%eval 0.39] } 34... Bb5 { [%eval 0.39] } 35. Qb1 { [%eval 0.32] } 35... Qxb1+ { [%eval 0.3] } 36. Rxb1 { [%eval 0.26] } 36... f6 { [%eval 0.26] } 37. Kf2 { [%eval 0.19] } 37... Kg6 { [%eval 0.31] } 38. Ke3 { [%eval 0.29] } 38... Kf7 { [%eval 0.54] } 39. Kf4 { [%eval 0.28] } 39... g5+ { [%eval 0.22] } 40. Kg4 { [%eval 0.16] } 40... f5+ { [%eval 0.14] } 41. Kg3 { [%eval 0.16] } 41... f4+ { [%eval 0.12] } 42. Kf2 { [%eval 0.25] } 42... Bc4 { [%eval 0.25] } 43. Re1 { [%eval 0.21] } 43... Bd5 { [%eval 0.33] } 44. Re5 { [%eval 0.1] } 44... Rb8 { [%eval 0.17] } 45. g3 { [%eval 0.0] } 45... fxg3+ { [%eval 0.02] } 46. Kxg3 { [%eval 0.0] } 46... Ra8 { [%eval 0.02] } 47. Re3 { [%eval 0.0] } 47... h5 { [%eval 0.2] } 48. h4 { [%eval 0.06] } 48... g4?? { [%eval 2.43] } { Blunder. gxh4+ was best. } (48... gxh4+ 49. Kxh4 Kg6 50. Re1 Ra3 51. Rg1+ Kf5 52. Rg5+ Kf6 53. Rxh5 Bxf3 54. Rh6+ Kf5 55. Rh8) 49. fxg4 { [%eval 2.16] } 49... hxg4?! { [%eval 2.83] } { Inaccuracy. Rg8 was best. } (49... Rg8 50. g5 Ra8 51. b5 Ra1 52. Re2 Kg6 53. b6 Rf1 54. Rf2 Rg1+ 55. Kf4 Re1 56. Rb2) 50. Kxg4 { [%eval 2.88] } 50... Rg8+ { [%eval 2.71] } 51. Kf4 { [%eval 2.89] } 51... Bc4 { [%eval 3.07] } 52. Ke5 { [%eval 2.65] } 52... Rg4?! { [%eval 3.4] } { Inaccuracy. Rh8 was best. } (52... Rh8 53. Rf3+ Ke8 54. Rh3 Rh6 55. Kd6 Kd8 56. Bb6+ Ke8 57. Rh2 Rh5 58. Bc5 Bd5 59. b5) 53. Rh3 { [%eval 3.35] } 53... Rg8 { [%eval 3.72] } 54. Kd6 { [%eval 3.24] } 54... Rd8+ { [%eval 3.47] } 55. Kc7 { [%eval 3.54] } 55... Rh8 { [%eval 3.78] } 56. Bd6 { [%eval 3.67] } 56... Ke8?! { [%eval 4.94] } { Inaccuracy. Ra8 was best. } (56... Ra8 57. Rc3 Bd5 58. b5 Ra7+ 59. Kb6 Ra1 60. Rg3 Rh1 61. Rg4 Rb1 62. Rg5 Rh1 63. h5) 57. Kb6 { [%eval 4.08] } 57... Kd7 { [%eval 4.17] } 58. Be5 { [%eval 4.11] } 58... Ra8 { [%eval 4.39] } 59. b5 { [%eval 4.37] } 59... Re8?! { [%eval 7.04] } { Inaccuracy. Ra1 was best. } (59... Ra1 60. Rc3 Bd5 61. Rc7+ Ke8 62. Kc5 Rc1+ 63. Kd6 Rh1 64. Rc5 Rxh4 65. b6 Rh3 66. Rxd5) 60. h5 { [%eval 7.31] } 60... Re7 { [%eval 7.39] } 61. Kc5 { [%eval 6.32] } 61... Bd5 { [%eval 6.23] } 62. b6 { [%eval 6.18] } 62... Kc8 { [%eval 6.54] } 63. h6 { [%eval 6.36] } 63... Rh7 { [%eval 8.25] } 64. Bg7 { [%eval 6.93] } 64... Kb7 { [%eval 7.88] } 65. Ra3 { [%eval 8.19] } 65... Kc8 { [%eval 35.46] } 66. Ra7 { [%eval 34.57] } 66... Bb7 { [%eval 8.99] } 67. Kd6 { [%eval 11.92] } 67... Bd5 { [%eval 35.38] } 68. Ke7 { [%eval 8.67] } 68... Kb8 { [%eval 34.26] } 69. Kf8 { [%eval 36.1] } 69... Be4?! { [%eval #17] } { Checkmate is now unavoidable. Kc8 was best. } (69... Kc8 70. Rc7+ Kb8 71. Kg8 Rxh6 72. Bxh6 e5+ 73. Kf8 e4 74. Rd7 Bb7 75. Ke7 e3 76. Bf4+) 70. Kg8?! { [%eval 36.48] } { Lost forced checkmate sequence. Be5+ was best. } (70. Be5+ Kc8 71. Rc7+ Rxc7 72. bxc7 Kd7 73. Kg7 Kc8 74. h7 Bxh7 75. Kxh7 Kd7 76. Kg7 Kc8) 70... Kc8 { [%eval 37.03] } 71. Rf7 { [%eval 9.17] } 71... e5 { [%eval 33.3] } 72. dxe5 { [%eval 34.79] } 72... Bd5 { [%eval 11.96] } 73. Kxh7 { [%eval 10.82] } 73... Bxf7 { [%eval 9.2] } 74. Bf6 { [%eval 14.96] } 74... Bd5 { [%eval 11.8] } 75. Kg7 { [%eval 15.42] } *
This game I played on lichess.
https://lichess.org/x6lxofUi/white This game where I was completely lost, but I managed to save it because of stalemate https://lichess.org/seUZwnFM/white My best game of the month, amazing sacrifice, punishing opponent's mistakes I had better games but I will share the one that won against a 200 elo points higher opponent (when the game was played). She sacrificed a pawn in the opening which I hold onto it (only as long as I wasn't my development back) until she couldn't do much. https://www.chess.com/live/game/95036905247 May I request that when the winners are posted, we also have their games linked so we can see the brilliancies? Thanks
Hello champions!
How are you all doing today?
We had plenty of interesting games. Thank you for sharing them. It’s so nice to see you all applying what you learn and experimenting with new ideas. We enjoyed going through them.
Moving on to the prizes now…
The first prize goes to Saphira Bond for their 19-move win. 11.e5 was an interesting decision, which allowed you to get 3 pieces for the Queen. Then it was courageous to sacrifice the 2 Knights with Nxe6 and Nxd5, quickly finishing off the game. Congratulations!
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/94128125923?tab=analysis&move=36
The 2nd prize goes to Yuvan Kumar. Great to see how you started an attack on the Kingside using the extra space. The final checkmate with a Queen sacrifice just made our day! Well played!
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/56539191917?tab=analysis&move=0
Rick Janss takes the 3rd place. Even after getting a slightly uncomfortable position out of the opening, you kept fighting. The decision to give up a full Rook and go all in with the attack was a brave one. Good to see how you patiently wrapped up the game even while being down a Rook. Well done!
https://lichess.org/AiP7qyOz#47
Siva Vision64 takes the 4th prize for their fantastic Dutch attack! Nxh3 was a bold sacrifice to make! Then to carry out the attack calmly, bringing more pieces and checkmating in style was nicely done!
https://lichess.org/tvBlbuQv/black#54
The 5th prize goes to Adam Machnik. Despite losing a pawn in the opening, you didn’t lose control but completed your development. Another instructive moment was when you opened the lines on the Queenside to attack. And the final King hunt, starting after Rxa6, was nicely executed. Good job!
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/93708016803?tab=analysis&move=58
Congratulations to all of you.
And once again, we thank everyone for sharing your games.
Let’s keep the Cogro as we head into the last month of 2023!
See you in the next contest. Wishing you all the best!
Solving Puzzle
I tried a several number of puzzles but the right moves that I made were suggested wrong; rather, the wrong moves were granted as right. Is it a technical problem or something else?
How happy I were ! If I could earn the coins solving the puzzles at first attempts.
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Bro, If you have any doubts about the Daily Puzzles, you need to post the link or mention the date of the puzzle along with it. Particularly which move do you think is wrong & which move do you think is right?
Opening
Should I play in a OTB tournament without studying the advanced section in the opening courses? Will the be any problem? I am a 2320 on lichess so that you get an understanding of my strength. I have a lot of time,, nut instead of studying the opening, i would prefer studying the middlegame or endgames
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If you are 2320 on lichess and this is your first OTB tournament I would say dont worry about the opening, go enjoy the experience. I am 1500 ECF (similar to FIDE) and about 2100 lichess classical; opening prep isnt a big part of the game at my level.
Definitively you don't need to study the advanced sections to play in the tournament. The advanced sections are difficult to remember and are focused to around 2200 FIDE onwards, not lichess. You are supposed to know all the normal variations and then when you know them and have reached this level, you should go there. Another time to study the advanced variations is when you know that your opponent will play that way, otherwise, wait a bit.
Avetik and Gabu say it time and time again in the videos, not to watch them until you are 2200 fide, but many students keep studying it and trying to memorize the moves. This is not practical and you should follow our recommendations. That is why we make the courses thinking in the different levels and needs of all of you.
Good luck in the tournament, and play OTB as much as you can, it is there where you become stronger and aware of the positions that you play…😄
Thank You!
Don't forget that key moves rarely happen during openings.
Lichess or chess.com
Lichess or chess.com which is better to play in online ?
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IMO chess.com for blitz, bullet, puzzle rush, correspondence. Lichess for rapidplay, better host for longplay matches, puzzles, database.
Lichess is probably also better for phone and slow Internet, I've lost countless chess.com games due to a slow interface which needs a fair bit of work to improve.
I would use chess.com for playing games (rapid + blitz) as the cheating detection is more accurate. However, bullet on chess.com is unplayable because of the 0.1 seconds it takes to premove. Puzzle rush on chess.com is nice, but the lichess study feature is miles away from anything chess.com has and is the best way to analyze your games if you don't have ChessBase.
In short, play on chess.com and do everything else on lichess.
I use Chess.com for puzzles (because I'm to lazy to do a lot of puzzles on lichess to set my rating correct) and puzzle rush. Also news.
I use Lichess for basically everything else. It's just so much better in my opinion.
Lichess follows FIDE laws, e.g, Knight vs pawn endgame. Even though the knight can't checkmate the king, if the side with the pawn flags, he loses as there still is a possible checkmate position (self mating yourself in the corner :>).
However, chess.com follows USCF rules. Meaning that if we have a similar endgame, it will end in a draw even though the one with the pawn flags as one knight cannot checkmate a king.
Another difference is that chess.com allows you to make multiple premoves at once, but uses 0.1 second every premove.
Lichess, on the other hand, only allows one premove at a time, but uses no time at all.
In conclusion, it really depends on yourself! There is no true “victor” but depends on what you prefer most.
Hope this helps :>
Lichess
I would prefer Lichess as most of their stuff is free as it is a non-funded organization. But when it comes to design and tournaments, Lichess is lacking that, this is mainly because there are less people on Lichess than Chess.com. Lichess have very few tournaments (hosted by special people) and Chess.com can certainly provide that as there are more than 1M+ people who play Chess.com everyday so there will be a lot of tournaments by titled players or regular players.
Overall Chess.com wins this but if you want the free items then go for Lichess
Lichess because its free
Anti-Sicilian
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Please i need help on it.
I always play open sicilian and i have some theory but not much.
If you could help i would really appreciate it!
I have a lichess study so here it is: https://lichess.org/study/EGrhMKyO
If you could make a course on the open sicilian it wouls be good.
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For white chessmood doesn't recommend to play Open Sicilian with 2. Nf3 because it has very much theory. Some variations are even bigger than some openings.
Chessmood has already made courses on the Sicilian for black. You can find them in the category “Step-by-step opening repertoire for Black”
King activity
Hi, I've recently played two games where I reached the endgame. Now, my question was, in those specific positions, should I get my king active and around what move? There are 4 pieces in total plus pawns, and I had fear that activating my king would have led me to lose my pawns and then get into difficult position. However closing my king around my pawns got me checkmated in one game (even thou it was a blunder, but the point is that if I had activated it before it wouldn't have happened) and almost in the second. The position are from these games: 1. https://www.chess.com/game/live/95796901953 here I was black 2. https://www.chess.com/game/live/95939036395 here I was white
also don't look at the other moves in the games, they are terrible, but I'm learning. thank you
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Hi there.
I haven't been playing for very long so keep that in mind!
I've read that, as a general rule, if the combined value of the pieces (not pawns, just the pieces) for both you and your opponent is less than 12 then it is time to start bringing your king towards the centre of the board and to use him to attack your opponent's pawns. So, for example, if you have a rook (5) and a knight (3), plus pawns, and your opponent has 2 bishops (2 x 3), plus pawns, then you should bring your king out.
Caro Kann Doubts
e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 Bd6
How to continue after black plays bd6 .a lot of players are playing bd6 and I am not confused about how to continue .
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This variation makes no sense, this is some French exchange and we do not play this Ar ray, please check your move order… 😀
So shall I delete this thread as it is the doubt itself is wrong and it can confuse other players ?
