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The Winners of June

Hello ChessMood Family, hello champions! 
This month we got 250+ games and it was very cool to see your growth. 

There were posted many games by Sriram, Arnav, Giorgos, Jotisko, Aayush, Tanmoy, Abhi and Kourush. It was impressive to see your growth.  

We've also noticed how much you work on the courses, and the results we all see! 
Super job! 

The 1st prize - best game of June, goes to Keok Woltek, for his very nice combination. 
Koek played other nice games as well, including his nice Qh3, Qh2 maneuver.  

The 2nd prize goes to Abhi Yadav. Among his many nice attacks, the game where he crushed french, with 3.Bd3, was a masterpiece. 11.Ne5!! was brilliant. 

The 3rd prize goes to Jeffrey Cobb, for his queen sacrifice. 

The 4th prize goes to Arman Shahzamani, for a nice game, crushing "Youtube opening" :D 

The 5th prize goes to Kourosh Asgari, for his nice attack with English opening. 

The best game with Black pieces goes to Fahad Rahman, for his nice win against a Grandmaster. 
Fahad also played another impressive game crushing with our Caro-Kann exchange variation. 

The best opening for the month goes to Scotch Game :) 
Scotch Game destroyed the opponents this month :) 


Thanks for all the participants. 
Keep the good job and COGRO (Constant Growth), 
and see you in the contest of July. 

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Black to move! 
Find a nice combination, that was played in the game by Koek, the winner of the best game of June. 

Congratulations to all the winners...... :)

A question to English Grandmasters or native speakers

 Hello ChessMood Family. I have one question related to English. 
In chess, most of the books are written in three parts of chess game - Opening, Middlegame, Endgame. 
But there is a super important 4th one. Between opening and middlegame. Where you almost finished the development of all the pieces and time to find a plan for the future. 
My question - Can we name it "Post-Opening" ? 
 

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Maybe “Middlegame transition”?

I am not native speaker but c2 english level. This is a good idea.

I also like the Middlegame Transition.  I suppose there is also an Endgame Transition!

The only other thing that I can think of just now is 'Finding the Plan'.

Thanks for the answers! 
In the Facebook Group, Kevin Hall offered a name that I liked very much. 
"Mopening" :) The hybrid of opening and middlegame :) 
What do you think? :) 
We'll have our name for it :) 

Pre Middlegame or Middlegame Transition as KH suggests probably sounds best in English.

Maybe we can name it as the "Pre-Middlegame" or "Plan-Period"

Problem in 4...Qh4 line for White?

Hello Friends, 

I want to share a line in the Scotch when gave me some problems. And it is the line 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Qh4 5. Nc3 Bb4 { C45 Scotch Game: Modern Defense } 6. Nb5 Ba5. Such a simple move that I believe solves a lot of blacks problems. c7 is defended and the knight is still pinned. I tried to play dynamically in the game and i was on the losing end for most of the game but the Cassia rewarded me for not giving up. And my team also needed me to win! I don't think 6...Ba5 was covered on the course and it is quite tricky to find a logical reply if you never seen it before. What does Chessmood recommend here? 

[Event "Rated Classical game"][Date "2020.06.25"] [Round "-"] [White "Kayode"] [Black "NM"] [Result "1-0"] [UTCDate "2020.06.25"] [UTCTime "17:50:53"] [WhiteElo "2018"] [BlackElo "1819"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+51"] [BlackRatingDiff "-52"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "3600+15"] [ECO "C45"] [Opening "Scotch Game: Modern Defense"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "lichess.org"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Qh4 5. Nc3 Bb4 { C45 Scotch Game: Modern Defense } 6. Nb5 Ba5 7. Be2 a6 8. Nd4 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. O-O Nxe4 11. Bd3 O-O 12. g3 Qe7 13. Nf5 Qe5 14. Nh6+ gxh6 15. Bxh6 d5 16. Bxf8 Kxf8 17. Re1 Qxc3 18. Qh5 Ne5 19. Bxe4 dxe4 20. Qh6+ Kg8 21. Qg5+ Kf8 22. Qd8+ Kg7 23. Qg5+ Ng6 24. Qd5 f5 25. Qd8 Qe5 26. Rad1 Qe7 27. f3 Qc5+ 28. Kh1 exf3 29. Qd4+ Qxd4 30. Rxd4 b6 31. Kg1 Kh6 32. Kf2 Bb7 33. Rd7 Rc8 34. Re6 Be4 35. h4 Bxc2 36. h5 Kxh5 37. Rxh7+ Kg5 38. Rg7 f4 39. gxf4+ Kxf4 40. Re3 Nh4 41. Rc3 Bb1 42. Rc4+ Be4 43. Re7 Nf5 44. Rcxe4+ Kg5 45. R7e5 Rf8 46. Kxf3 Kg6 47. Re6+ Kg7 48. Kg2 Nd6 49. Re2 Rf5 50. Re7+ Rf7 51. R7e6 Kg8 52. Rc2 Rg7+ 53. Kf1 Rf7+ 54. Ke1 Rg7 55. Rce2 Kf8 56. Kd1 Rd7 57. Kc2 Nb5 58. Rf2+ Rf7 59. Rd2 Nd6 60. Rh2 Kg7 61. Rg2+ Kf8 62. Kd3 Rf3+ 63. Kd4 Rf5 64. Rge2 Rf4+ 65. Kd5 Rf5+ 66. Kc6 Rc5+ 67. Kd7 Nf7 68. Rf2 Kg7 69. Re7 Rd5+ 70. Kxc7 Rc5+ 71. Kxb6 Rc8 72. Rfxf7+ Kg8 73. Kxa6 Ra8+ 74. Ra7 Re8 75. Rfb7 Re6+ 76. Kb5 Re5+ 77. Kc4 Rf5 78. Rb8+ Rf8 79. Rxf8+ Kxf8 80. Rb7 { Black resigns. } 1-0

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I suggest you to play this line, not best but still very playable for both sides: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Qh4 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Be2! Qxe4 7. Nb5 Kd8 8. O-O Bxc3 9. Nxc3 Qd4 10. Qe1 Nf6 11. Be3 Qd6 12. Rd1 Qb4 13. Bf3 Ne5 14. Ne2 d6 15. Qd2 Nc6 white pieces seem to be piled up but in the post opening your position will get better. Correct me if I am wrong somewhere.

Hey Kayode! 
Giorgos' answer is correct. You should start with Be2, and after Qe4, play Nb5.
Check it out here: https://chessmood.com/course/scotch-game/episode/676 

New Opening

Guys I finished Accelerated Dragon and I am doing well and playing a lot games with this opening too so I won't mess up move orders but I do want to include one more opening in my repo. The reason is to learn something new in chess. So what opening do you guys recommend to learn as black against e4 after accelerated dragon. I am not good in tactics and calculation yet so as coach told me don't go for Najdorf. So I trust him. I do not mean to focus in depth in new opening. I just wanna know ideas and that's it and my main opening will be accelerated dragon always.

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These are my Choices:

I have played these systems before the Accelerated Dragon, and I will use all 3 systems in my games:

1- Taimanov Sicilian: Probably the most SOLID sicilian set-up. (A favorite of Anand)

2- Sveshnikov Sicilian: If you have a FIGHTER inside you, play it!!

Abhi, don't learn another opening, until you don't master the 1st one! 
Don't learn a new opening, until you get 2200 rating. 
There are much other useful things, you can do now, instead of learning a new opening. 

Learn the Right Lessons From Your Mistakes

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What an amazing lesson coach. Yes I follow the same you mentioned. I analise my mistakes so well and I follow proper way to improve my skills. After I found you I learnt more about my past event mistakes. 

1. Tactics and visualisation issue iin last event.

2. A bit excitement in endgame due to winning position so I started to learn slow and steady games whenever I am winning. Good example of my slow play is Qc2N game. According to many strong players I missed early win. Yeah they are right but what I applied was super slow approach to win in a winning position because no one will give me 2 medals if I win one game. So slowly slowly I won a winning game and also applying this concept in online practice and improving.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4724281271?fbclid=IwAR26MNBB6pViTc6jqjiVANQgyz0cuohB3woh79KD7T-LlQKEyTkQrTze-9s

3. Last event I had trouble in openings due to no time for prep so I know openings are also my mistakes so after I found your community I worked on my openings and in the starting phrase I only worked on ideas but now due to lock down I am working not only on ideas but also on variations.

4. Knowing lack of classics. Because of lack of knowledge of classics I missed wins a lot but after you taught me to work on classics I felt a rapid growth in my games. Even if I lose games they are always amazing games. I watch daily 5 games of chessmood and after that I will work on Saint Louis Chess Videos and once you will publish your planning and exchange courses I will work on them too.

So thanks to you. I am on right track and I follow my all mistakes. Yes in blitz I sometimes mess up lines but in classical if I studied any chessmood lines the chances are so low that I mess up . My middlegames are also improving especially middlegames based on bishop pair.

Thank you Maestro Avetik for this fantastic article. I am sure many other students, like me, can relate to this. For example, I remember "studying" the Sicilian Accelerated dragon for some time. I even got pretty excited when I managed to beat a local 2000+ chess hero in the final round of a blitz tournament (the only one I ever won). However, shortly thereafter, I lost a classical tournament game because of a few stupid decisions in the middle game, messing up a good position. I still kept playing the line, but then a stronger club player (2200) would totally crush me me with the morra gambit. So I said to myself: "f*ck this opening, let's try a different one." The same happened with my Benko as Black: some 2000+ player would decline the gambit, and I would be in unfamiliar territory. After losing a few more games, I just gave up on the Benko, and starting trying out other lines, etc. etc. I am happy to have found this great chess commmunity, and happy to have a great coach like yourself not only personally endorsing these openings, but also playing them live for all of us to see. I know now the chessmood openings are here to stay with me, and I will stick to this training plan no  matter what the results. 

How do we prepare effectively to beat our opponent player that we know and stronger than us?

How do we prepare effectively to beat our opponent player that we know and stronger than us?

Thank you.

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Off the top of my head

- Avoid blundering material needlessly and losing without a fight.

- Play actively and create threats.

- Do not overestimate or underestimate your opponent's strength.

- Do not accept a draw if you think your position is better.

Remember  if you do lose the game don't worry, review  it pinpoint the mistakes and make the necessary adjustments for next time. The same goes for games that  you win.

Lastly it's useful to realise  that psychologically the higher rated player is expected to win while you have little to lose. So we should try to exploit this factor in our favour by being bold and unafraid.

The above is not meant to be an exhaustive list by any means but I hope it serves you  as an inspirational and helpful guide.

If you only care about the result: (I don't)

Play black defensive systems with an extra tempo when you play with white pieces:

For example: London system is a good choice. You do not need much preparation to learn it.

Many high rated players underestimate it and take risk to win, ....... and they loose. 

It is extremely solid.

I frustrated many higher rated players with this opening, and they lost to their EGO. Pushed hard to break it! and they broke.

1) Um my approach is different in handling those players who are known to me. First of all I focus on their style. If  they are positional player then it's so good for you to make position complex so chances of making mistakes will be high. That's why it's recommended to make a position complex or even messy if you are playing against a GM because if you play just normal you will def gonna lost in endgames because GMs knows 1000s of patterns which we don't even know and they can make a lot tricks to confuse us even in drawn position. So try to play opposite to their style.

Note: Above idea works if you  are 2000 elo player and you have two repo one is positional and one is aggressive. For me I know  not only the Grand Prix against c5 but I do know Alapin Variation in depth and my score in positional play with Alapin is also decent against below 2000 players. 

2) Never play for draw. This is the biggest mistake of all players. Even elite players lose when they think like oh we just need draw and we win the event etc. Play for win and for me I feel like kill the opponent like a melon or just insult him on the board.  But only on the board not in real life. No mercy, even if he cry and say draw say no way. 

3) Clock management is so important skill to master and even elite players sometimes face clock handling issues whenever they face novelties. For this purpose I love the post which @GM_Avetik_Grigoryan posted few months ago about calculation. Check the link in the bottom.

https://chessmood.com/forum/main-channel/is-it-fine-to-spend-1-hour-on-calculation-1000

4) Mindset is important. If you are not confident you can't even win against 1200 elo player. No matter who is against you just be confident and I think confidence comes only if you are well prepared. For example you worked a lot on calculation, openings, middlegames, endgames before event so it will give you confidence like oh yeah I am prepared to play well so work on your skills before event so always work. This approach always helped me and I always felt confident when I work and then went to event. Even if i lost a lot but I lost just by blunders. No one dominated me in below 1600 events.

5) Never give up, This one line saved my a lot games. Even in worse positions because of Chessmood's line I saved a lot games. Even had a draw on time against an almost 2600 lichess player in blitz. So no matter how many blunders you make just try to be calm and never give up and you will def save tons of points. For more info read the bottom article.

https://chessmood.com/blog/it-is-never-too-late-to-resign-in-chess

This is all I can say about how to beat a strong player and super thing here is that you know the player. It's so tough for even GMs to prepare against those GMs who are not known to them .

Good luck, I shared what I learnt from Chessmood team and from my own thoughts about how to win. 

Calculation ?

How do you guys train calculation. I am right now follow the plans of studying classics. I watch them and learn concepts from them but in complicated games it's tough to calculate.

Any advice how to start training calculation?

I have 20 mins daily for calculation training and an hr for watching classics.

After may I will have 3 hr for training.

2nd question; How do u guys worked on pattern recognition skills? Do you first see the pattern then u solve examples or u solve pattern by urself then more examples?

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Blindfold games and blindfold puzzles can improve our chess calculation?

Thank You.

When I was lower rated and was traianing tactics recognition, I used the Magnus trainer app where there are tactics for all levels. You see the board, then tap the correct option feom below e.g. skewer, fork, discovered attack etc. And then yoy solve the puzzle. That helped me since 1600 online level. Now I am round 1850 and have some problems with my one calculation plan.

Improving calculation is a complicated topic with many layers, but I will attempt to partly answer your question with a question. If you never saw the smothered mate pattern before, do you think you would be able to find it in a game by calculation?

I remember many years ago watching a game between two reasonably decent club players where both sides missed a winning Greek bishop sacrifice on multiple occasions until the opportunity had passed forever. After the game I asked them both why the sacrifice was not played, and the answer came back it just never occurred to them, remarkably they were completely unfamiliar with the pattern.

I will end by saying that pattern recognition and calculation are  closely linked and depend heavily on each other to be effective.

Abhi, please don't use spammy titles for your posts. One question mark is enough. Thanks.

Best tools to practice openings

Hi,

Yesterday I subscribed to Chessmood for my younger son. Can you please suggest some good tools to practice chess openings where he can create the repertoire after learning a opening and the tool gives some feedback about where all he went wrong and which all lines he missed upon.

Thanks

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You can try chessbase 14 or 15 and if you need free software then try ChessX soft and it works in linux, Mac and Linux. There you can make your base of opening and middlegames or anything

Chesstempo is good if you can get a subscription.

https://www.studyopenings.com/ is the one that can help practice with the openings.

You can have a look here http://fritz.chessbase.com/?lang=en

or even consider getting the program Fritz 17 or earlier iterations. Here is a Demo Video showing some of its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJOxo53mIgI

Good luck.

Here are my current thoughts.  I want to use something to drill my opening repertoire.  I watch the course videos and just cannot remember it all.  I know if I use some drilling software, eventually I will remember it all.

There are basically 3 methods that I have considered.  

Method 1

BookUp, Chess Openings Wizard, Chess Tempo, Chess Position Trainer, etc.

I am not going to be using any of these, because the entry, drilling features, or what have you are very basic in structure or seem to be buggy.  The analogy is trying to compare Microsoft Office (or Open Office) to Notepad on the feature aspects.

Method 2

Chessable

I LOVE LOVE the spaced learning feature and think that once a book exists, this is the best way to learn things.  So any book that you might buy on the site, is really top-notch efficient.  However, we don't want any book, we want the repertoire that is given here!  

When I try to enter the course moves from the video, it is very hard for me to do this in a systematic way so that once I am done, it is all neatly organized and orderly!  You have to do so much repetition in opening and re-opening various files, move orders do not present in the order you want, etc.  I just think it is way too hard to enter in a repertoire in Chessable, but IF you can get it all in there, the training is superb.

Method 3

ChessBase

This is what I am going to do.  My monitor is large enough that I can have the course open and alongside that a fresh board from ChessBase.  As I move through the course, I just enter whatever into a game and organize it on the fly.  If the game gets too big, I just save what I have and then start another game.  Variations nest well, lines can be promoted and become main lines, annotations can be liberally included both by text and more variations.  When I am done, I can then export well-ORGANIZED files into Chessable and train from there.

I have not given up that all this stuff can be drilled in ChessBase (or even Fritz17) and I may default to this eventually, but I see more sophistication in Chessable at present.

COST

I tend to see money as being a severely limiting factor in almost any decision chess players make.  How often we hear the desire for something that is FREE but just as good as the professional software out there!  Folks, I don't think it exists.  (The obvious exception being the Stockfish engine. Every grandmaster uses ChessBase, and for good reason.  In my opinion, this has become a basic investment much like a chess set or clock.  I think if you use anything else you are doing yourself a disservice.  You would not be reading this if you were not serious about chess!  Why handicap yourself?

GREAT WAY TO LEARN 

I have come across the IM Sagar Shah series of YouTube videos including a brand new series he is just starting.  It is easy to search for!  (Chess Base India is another place to search for him).  I have learned more from watching his videos on how to use this stuff than any other source.  I cannot recommend his videos more highly.  He is one of the great guys in chess.  I wish I could meet him personally!  

(I also want to one day meet Jacko too....lol)

Nitin, you should reserve a 1-1 call, I'll guide your son how to take the most value from ChessMood. 

+2hr comprehensive intro to chessbase 15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EjlB9mMp9zs

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Very nice video! 
Thanks for sharing it, Kevin! 

Retreating Moves- A dark mystery

I heard from Yasser and Maurice that retreating moves in chess are hard to find  even for super GMs. My question is why? These guys are machines then why retreating moves are hard for them to find. Even in classical games sometimes they miss them. So I am curious to know. 

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Abhi, it's related to psychology and even to a harder topic - neuropsychology. 

I have heard that it is very difficult to move your pieces backward when attacking; someone wants to checkmate as soon as possible; Tal had clear problems with retreating moves :)

National Open

I am planning on playing at the National Open in Las Vegas June 24-28, 2020. Is anyone else here going to play this tournament? 

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I am going to be playing the 4 day schedule in the U2100 section, June 25th-28th, and I am looking to see if any ChessMood members want to meet up. Let me know if you are thinking of going!

good luck man and I wish you will play good chess and we all will be excited to see your games in which you will crush people like a melon with chessmood openings and middle game lessons.

Note: "Crush like a melon" is a term which I created with my bestie. It's just a funny term and it's not showing disrespect to any person. I do respect beginners too.

As you are no doubt aware, many large events are now in the process of being cancelled due to the Pandemic scare.  I am not sure I am going to play any over-the-board until later in the summer and even then with the close following of developments.  I don't mean to be crude here, but I have played across from some pretty sick (ill) people and won't be doing it during these times.

What is interesting is that this could be a catalyst for something big in the realm of on-line chess.  Now there is a REAL reason not to spend so much money on travel, hotel fees, entry fees, resort fees, et al. You can play right now in the safety of your home!

Doubts

Since I am new I have some doubts.Would be happy if you all cleared them:)

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Hi Shona. 

1. You get unlimited access to the courses when you are a PRO Member. 
2. Calls are on skype. All members get a 15 min short call with a GM to get a personalized study plan, when they joined ChessMood PRO.  (it's once, when you join, not every month. If you want 1-1 lessons with coaches, please write to our support team at contact@chessmood.com) 
3. We have a 30-day money-back guarantee. So if somehow you don't like anything, you can ask for a refund.  

Study plan

 have sent you a Email GM Avetik on  [email protected]!! plz check it out and reply GM Avetik! I am really waiting for your answers! It is about recommending me a study plan. I have described my strengths and weaknesses, the books I have and the Softwares /memberships I have. Sadly, I do not have a membership on chessmood because my dad does not allow :(

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Do you only give study plan to PRO members? plz give to normal members as well!! plz!

tel me ur elo so may be I can help you a bit?

You are welcome @skipper_chess

Skipper, "personalized plan" word speaks for himself. 
How do you imagine to give personalized plan of our 10.000 members? 
Abhi's post is nice. Check it out. 

Chess books regarding Calculation/Visualization

Hello, I am a 2000 fide rated player and am struggling in the aspects of calculation. I have trouble finding resources from both sides. I also have trouble calculating long variations in my head, since the position slowly gets more vague, and unclear in my head. I would greatly appreciate any tips for these problems, as well as chess books to strengthen these topics.

Thanks for any help

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Um. I am 1465 but have some suggestions and I hope it may help you. Even though I am not experienced but I am just sharing what I learnt from strong players. my own research and from my friends.

First of all issue about missing opponent's resources can be solved from a book called  Recognizing Your Opponent Resources by Mark Dvoretsky .This is what a GM recommended to my WCM bestie because she also missed opponent's resources during she calculate long variations. 

Now let's move to the topic of messing up lines and variations. As far as I learnt from my friend @Jay_Garrison as I am facing this issue too because I am just novice. So he suggested me to pick up a chess book of games. Then try to see the game  in your mind till the first diagram position. Let's say first diagram comes on move 6 then try to visualise that position and then place the resulting position on real board and then check your resulting position with the book's diagram and check how clearly you saw. This way of training will improve blindfold and visualisation skills. I prefer try a bit simple games like go with Morphy instead of visualising the games of Kasparov.  By practicing it soon you will be able to see the whole game in your mind. 

Another useful point is by Indian GM Vidit. He said try to solve studies in blindfold. By this way you can also improve your visualization skills. I this step by step work is also important in chess. If you pick a book  suggested for GMs then you won't see all the lines well in your mind. So I suggest pick a calculation book of max 2200 elo level. This is what I learnt from some other coaches. By solving 200 elo point higher problems will improve your skills to the next level. For example now you are 2000 so let's say you can solve tactics of 1900 elo level and you have issue after that then try to get rid out of comfort zone and it will help you.

Final word on calculation book.. I only heard and saw two books in past and they are good books. First is  Grandmaster Preparation - Calculation by Jacob Aagaard and second one is Critical Moments in Chess by Paata Gaprindashvili

There are some recommendations by @ChessMood_ too . So you can go there and find the list of books which will be useful for you.

https://chessmood.com/we-recommend

Second useful article:

https://chessbase.in/news/Best-chess-solving-books-for-professional-players

Take a look at this video: (go to 04:12)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJOxo53mIgI

About calculation are written many books... 
But personally, I didn't like any of them. Next year, I am going to write a one. Have already more than thousands examples on my computer. 

For improving calculation, you really need coach. 
It's something, that it's thought to explain in course... 
There are so many different calculation techniques. 

For now I would recommend to check Dvorecky's book and also to solve more puzzles. 

Check the book Calculation by Aagaard.

How to Post

How to post?

Like if someone post there is only option to reply,

Is there option to post there in the forum too?

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Can you please elaborate this question please?

Study plan for hard- workers

Hey Champions! 
Some of our members are working very hard and in a few months finished most of the courses. 
I've recorded here a video, what to do next, what should be the plan. 

https://youtu.be/rClFoIOT3XE 

If you have still any questions, feel free to ask here. 

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Educational and I follow streams and checking my openings and tactics miss after every game. My intuition is already improving and frankly I worked a lot on siclian course so I almost crush all my opponent who play c5 except chessmood players hehehe. I feel like c5= 1-0 . Need to work on rest of courses. Ten time revision is in my mind and it will be useful I know.

How to define positional play?

I am learning a lot about positional play from Saint Louis Videos by Armenian GM Vazubian Akobian. He explains a lot about exchanges, tempos, timings and a lot more things. It make me feel like positional play is tough but logical and if we know the basics of positional play we can achieve atleast 2300 elo. I know positional play do requires calculation skills. I am not ignoring this point but I think it also works with  logical play!

What you think guys? I just love positional play 

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I think Positional Chess is Pawn Structure Chess. I love it too, but tactical chess and positional chess are tightly codependent, don't forget that. :-)

Abhi, about about improving positional chess, Commented Classical Game course is must. 
@Kevin_D, buy the way, do you watch it? 

From 1600 to 2400 in chess.com

Hey Champions! 

As most of our ChessMood Family members are from 1600 to 2400 levels, I decided to make a streaming series of getting from 1600 to 2400  in chess.com

Looking forward to seeing you in a few hours. 

P.S
It's time to not just raise your rating but raise it explosively.

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I enjoyed & very instructive today's event.Can you please share pgn of games played today's event?

A great stream! I enjoyed it a lot! What a great parrot you have sir, so good!

Plan in the GP endgame?

I know many experts can win this position as white. But I am not an expert. This is well known position for all Chessmood Members so kindly explain me how to play this position as white. For example it's black to move in this diagram position and my move is Rf8 so how will white fight for advantage here because only open file is in black's hand and he is piece up. Yeah we have amazing pawns but still I am worried about a long term plan.  I am worried about how to make my king active and one plan for black is to play Rf8-Rf8 anf he can move his king anywhere to stop our pawns. Yes I never saw anyone who got this position against me but I am worried about future so if anyone give nice ideas or games then it will be super useful for me and my endgame knowledge.

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If I remember well then video was over after this d4 and coach said better for white. Yes I believe in it but all i want is my king in the center so I can fight and trading rooks in the current position is suicidal.

exchange rooks on f8 and centralize the king. There is no player who can hold knight vs 3 pawns, probably not even stockfish!

ok, some variations...

Since you played Rf8 I continue Rxf8 Kxf8, Kf2 Nf4 (trying Nd3 fork), just b3, next comes Kf3 and the knight must go back. Then all I have to do is Ke3 and push the e and d pawns... He will have to give up the knight for some pawns at some time. You need to make sure either that he gets no more than 2 pawns for the knight, or if he gets 3 make sure your king is more active and you queen!

e and d pawns are really dangerous... Always calculate possible transpositions to pawn endgame after knight sacrifice and look out for forks!

And finally, only practice will help you. Try analyzing the position by yourself first, find the ideas and then check with machine.

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