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Scotch Line with 8.h4 f6 9.Rh3 fxe5

My engine said that black is better after the simple xe5 and I don't know what to do after xe5 Lg5 Sf6 Re3 0-0-0. Also if they go in the position after 14.bxa7 Kb7 imidiatly and not Qb4 I would love if you could help me out in this position.

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What is your real name Flo?
You should play 9.c4 Ba6 and then Rh3 

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My first game of March 2020, played on 2nd March.  I got great position in opening then mess up in middlegame but still I won.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4553087562

This kinds of games teach me a lot like

1. Never become excited during you play. 

2. Be focused.

3. Do not care too much about your mistakes during you play. Do not blame yourself during you play.

4. After the game then check your mistakes and learn from them,

I will do my best for the next games.

https://lichess.org/vUGqDEAcKR0K

Anti-Sicilian is very aggressive, especially against less prepare opponent.

I decided to try out Lichess for a little while and had a great game! 

I can say finally I played well. I allowed bad pawn formations because I need his bishop pair and pressure on f7 and a lot 

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4556979646

What you think of this game?

Bishop pair classic? Joking.

When you know ChessMood openings, some games end very quickly! The game was over before I was out of my opening prep! 13 moves, and a checkmate vs the Scandinavian! 

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4557212133

I never crushed any 1800+ player in rapid on chess.com in my entire life. But now because of chessmood I am not only winning against 1800+ players but also crushing them positionally or sometimes with attacking skills. Here in the bottom I played as black. I was scared to face an almost 1900 player but I kept thinking of Bobby Fischer which I normally do whenever i feel scared of tensed. He is like an inspiration for me. So opening was fine for me,Now in the bottom some of my thoughts about the moves so it will be easier for mentors to understand my weaknesses because I am follow 50% study plan on classics. Due to time issues I only watch classics and makes training base on them and I play.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4560751570

..14 Rxb2 I thought a lot because in the end of line I knew i will have to give up my lovely bishop but I do not saw any compensation from his side. 

...17 I think c5 was an important move. Fixing his weaknesses on c4 and later I can use them by Ba6 Nb6  and if allowed Rb4-Qa4. Another thing is important to notice that no matter how white will place his pieces, he will only get three defenders of light squares and I can get four attackers. But later I allowed some counterplay I think but it's a different story.

..19 Qb6 a simple trick, if he takes Qxb6 Nxb6 and he can't play a4-a5 bec of Ba6 Bxc4,

20. I do not like his Qa3. I was thinking of Qb3 follow by Rab1 and fight for the file.

..20 I think here Bb7 was a bit passive by me allowing Ba5 but I am not super sure. 

..21 I played Qc6 to gain a useful tempo against by using his weak pawns,

24. Rab1 is too late I think here because now I will get his bishop pair advantage and it give me relief and I can use the a pawn as long term target and I will also play b6- b5 to trade off my bad pawn for his bad one too but in the resulting position I will get passed pawn.

..28 He is just one tempo behind and I have b5 hehehe.

I knew after Rb5 position is so tough for him to hold. Principle of two weaknesses I tried to use. Targeting the pawn on e4 and a2 and good thing for me is that both pawns are on light squares hehe.

..30 Qa4 eyeing on d1 and e4 square

..31  I did not saw any concrete way to win. I saw Rb1+ Kf2 then what. Here is my problem . Sometimes tough to win a winning position  but he resigned.

If anyone fully read this one then kindly share my mistakes so I will learn from them . Especially in case of Rxb2. Was it sound and about c5 and about Bb7 in the end allowing Ba5 from his side.

Any suggestion will be boom for my game!

https://chess.com/live/game/4550914846

https://lichess.org/Z1zIhEaA523p

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4567574836

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4570359712

blitz fun GP

My again GP win. This time it's classical game. Missed a lot tactics but rn I do not expect my game as tactically sound. Because no time to study like I am supposed to do. In future I will.  But still cool and aggressive game and variations will be amazing if u analise it.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4572448551

Check out this #chess game: LovePP vs Abhi_Mary_1997 - https://chess.com/live/game/4576153941

My victory first time ever against 1900+ in 15/10 time control on chess.com

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4576200200

Philidor Defense Exchange variation/

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4576095223

I shouldnt have allowed my opponent to exchange queens, but then he probably shouldnt have allowed me to isolate his bishop either! Once his bishop was out of play, the rest was easy :)

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4544149995

played another 15/10.

Concepts:

1. Power of bishop pair.

2. Central control.

3. Passive black pieces.

Black missed pawn levers against the structure and he played e5 in wrong time.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4589214960

Thanks chessmood for bishop pair concepts.

This was a fun Scotch miniature that I played! 

https://lichess.org/ppFZGG9AVliC

I love playing this line of the sicilian, especially when you destroy your opponent like in that game (I'm white)

My miniature against the french. 

Here was me trying out what I've learned against the French today! 

The more I played this Queen trade line the more I found that people face so much problems on c7 square hehehe.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4610581471

Not with my real account but training account.

In the end chessmood bishops crushed him like a melon.

Scotch piece sac in blitz chess.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4613192286

My win on Lichess against the English Opening.  Waiting for GMs to tackle this opening for us.  In this game I opted to approach the English as if I were playing against the Sicilian.

https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/game/?p=bVEU17fEMi9K6zZMfuobklwfbYD0tOrkKcZOwy+vFnDr1gID5d7ae03pPHRyRzbK

Grand Prix attack.This game is very interesting for me.Because it contains a combination with queen sacrifice.

I saw f4 move.And I calculated it.When I saw I was winning I played Qxd6 and I won with a nice attack.

I am so happy that I know now a lot classical games and patterns. Especially my strength is to play typcial pawn levers. Here is a great example of my first game ever against a player of 2400 chess.com. I was tired that time but still played in chessmood tournament. Lost 3 in a row then I paired with this man and I thought let's try KID now and guess what? He entered into the line which I studied in 2 classical games shown by chessmood middlegame course. I remembered typical pawn maneuver and ideas especially g4 without h5 after knight on c3 moved. I tried to play fast because he was strong and I got losing position but due to pressure he missed simple Bg3 nd I gave me winning position and later I lost on time.

Happy thing for me was that due to kasparov game I played this line well in blitz.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4624503321

Played cool Benko gambit and in time pressure had bad position.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4634322671

I just played this game a moment ago. I play the Black side of a Scotch Classical against Komodo11 engine and I have rarely played 1.e4 e5 as Black. It finished with a nice bishop pair mate for me and I know 1.e4 e5 is not the Chess Mood preferred opening repertoire but sometimes it is nice to play something different and I think if we learn Scotch as White ChessMood opening, we can learn Scotch better if we play it with Black also?

Crushed like a melon.

Bg7 mistake d6 was essential.

Lessons from chessmood and streams.

https://lichess.org/N8SN4Bn0tH13

I do not know I am gonna win any prize or not but I am satisfied with my every single game. I only remember ideas for now of every chessmood openings but I need to work on move orders and soon I am gonna work on them. But even a player of 2000 is not able to handle ideas which I learnt here. So I think once i will study openings in depth + classical games then I think in just few months I can achieve 2400 on chess.com 

Here is my today's best game and full of mistakes but final touch was great from my side.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4643210036

Here is the game I played recently in Inter Bank Chess Championship 2020. My opponent's rating was 1600 Fide an mine was 1900 Fide and the time control is 30+10.

I chose the game due to two themes,

1. Domination of Knight over Bishop

2. Isolating a piece(Like Winter-Capablanca :)) 

Hope you all like the game 

is that super cool I must also try as a starter I really loved the scotch game and the classical games

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4651128402

Only i used plans forgot variations but still cool and aggressive game with chessmood openings.

Especially used his dark squares weaknesses.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4624500853

A Benko effort...hoping to see the Coach's comments on this one.Personally, Bb2 on move 28 would have been a knockout.

About this game:

-Psychological battle

-Powerful attack against White king.

Match situation:

-Round 5 of the national youth under 14. Board 1-FM De Silva LMST vs Ahangama Senuka Aswin. De Silva was the best player of this event,starting rank 1,former youth champion(last year), a FM. Aswin (me)1494 rated player well known for his agressive style of play.

De Silva and I each of us well.At the moment every other players were on my side. They were so desperate to beat De Silva because they were sick of him being 1st every year.

Mindset before the game:

-De Silva-Feeling the pressure.Very negative at the moment,try to make the position static.

-Aswin-nothing to lose(underdog) ,no pressure,try to make the position dynamic.

Before the game I taught to myself "this is a game two humans.There's no such thing called ratings or titles. My plan is to stab his heart(king) in the game, play the moves quickly, make him feel the pressure.

https://lichess.org/analysis/standar1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. Be3 a6

5. f3 b5 6. Qd2 Bb7 7. h4 h6 8. g4 Nd7

9. Bg2 c5 10. dxc5 Nxc5 11. O-O-O b4 12. Nd5 b3

13. axb3 Bxd5 14. Qxd5 Qa5 15. Kb1 Bxb2 16. Kxb2 Na4+

17. Ka3 Nc5+ 18. Kb2 Na4+d#37

White -FM De Silva L.M.S.T

ELO-2024

Black-Ahangama Senuka Aswin

ELO-1494

result-1/2-1/2

tournement-National Youth under 14

Date-28/12/2019

round-5.1

https://lichess.org/FEBlXIPZf9Bw

Opposite colour bishops. Initiative matters.

Chessmood concepts.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4661538410?username=jagdishchandrachess

 I am white.

https://lichess.org/ZgATUW5NiOoM

20 mins left. Played a cool scandi game.

Hello ChessMood Family! 
Thank you for all your games. 
It's very cool to see how you are improving. 

Here we go...

The 5th place goes to David Hackinyan, for his strong attack on the kingside. 
The 4th place goes to Jay Garrison for miniature in Scandinavian, when he won in 13 moves :) 
The 3rd place goes to Fahad Rahman, for his GP attack. 
The 2nd place goes to Magnum2019, for his great positional game. 
The 1st place goes to Abhi Yadav, for his scotch game, when he sacrificed a piece, starting the attack with h4, Bg5!  

Congratulations! The Prizes will be sent to your accounts. 
See you in the "Best Games of April" contest 

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maroczy questions

Hi GM Avetik,

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Hey! 
You are right, Nc2 is the biggest challenge of Maroczy Bind. 
It's still playable but Black should play very precisely. 
We recommend Modern Maroczy course for 2200+ players. 
Check it out. 

Candidates are canceled... What do you think?

Hey Champions????
 What do you think about canceling the candidates?

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It shouldn't have been held in the first place. Difficult for the players and their families to focus when the pandemic is all across. Feel especially for Teimour for he did voice his protest and there is no way FIDE can compensate for his loss.

I think it's safe for players. Especially now later ding will may be come back from his loses too.

Only 101 points rating increase...

Today my opponent at chess.com resigned our second 3 day match and my rating only increased by 101 points!

I posted a couple of months ago when I won my first match against this opponent and my rating improved by around 200 points. If only my 5 minute blitz rating would increase at this rate.....

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Great keep it up.

Arianne Caoili passes away at 33 (Levon Aronian's Wife)

Levon Aronian’s wife Arianne Caoili has tragically died at the age of just 33 after a car accident in Yerevan two weeks ago. Initial reports suggested that her condition, while serious, had stabilized, but on Monday Levon shared the terrible news that his wife had passed away. He paid tribute to an “intelligent, hard working and joyous person that lived a beautiful life”.

Rest in Peace.

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Sad to hear that. 

1.d4...2.c4 repertoire as White

How about doing White 1.d4 ... 2.c4 repertoire.

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I play the catalan against Nimzowitch  defense where I have scored pretty well,Averbakh variation or h3 system which I use some time to time as a suprise for my opponent, Qc2 variation and 4.e4!? as a suprise line against benko, fianchetto variatio agaist benoni,4.Bg5 against Grunfeld, 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bg5 and e4 or h4 aproach line against Dutch. I also have answers for lines such as Owens,Budapest,Albin gambit where I have  lines played by GM's but not popular in club level. I learned all these openings by my coach FM Prasnna Kurukulasuriya some are my decisions. What do you think about this dynamic repertoire. Leave a like if you like it.

I suggest GM Avetik to do 1.d4 openings such as these .

Thanks to Avetik sir!!

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ChessMood also helped me in my game.Really after having 2 years with chess i have finally founded the best site and best coaches on chessmood of my life.

najdorf

i was studying your 2 lines versus the Najdorf 6 Be2 and 6 h3

Is it possible to let stay the video s on chessmood? with the remark that the first time there will no new variations be pblished soon

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Hey Franck.
Unfortunately in that case, we will get 100 questions, where are the other parts... 
If you have concrete questions, Gabuzyan will answer them.

Question on Scotch Game 4...Bc5

In the line of 4...Bc5, after 5.Nb3 Bb6 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Qe2, i have faced the move 7...a5, which is a bit tricky move order, can I know which continuation is better for White? 

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Hey Koek! 
Yeah, a5 is in an interesting move. Offered by Kasparov and then he taught it to Nakamura and MVL. 
You play a4 here and transpose to our main lines and advanced sections. 

The power of Benko Gambit!

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4651264728
The power of Benko gambit and our Qb6 with Na6 idea????
This is how with our PRO Members we dominate the competition.

By the way, the course "Benko Gambit" is still unlocked :)
https://chessmood.com/course/benko-gambit

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Wild KID

My first ever Wild King's Indian Defense. 

Thanks for the classical section and Kasparov .

https://www.chess.com/live/game/4624503321

I knew typcial g4 idea and a6 then idk when i went wrong

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Yeah! Have you watched Najdorf's game in the "Commented Games" course? 
It seems somewhere you could checkmate :) 

100+ hours of courses by GRANDMASTERS are unlocked!

We’re living in times when it’s important to support each other as never before...

Yeah, just by staying at home you can save lives…

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So what is the point of paying 29 dollars per month for the PRO membership, when you can get it for free?

I think I will re-consider my Pro membership , because it just makes the paying members look like fools.

Amazing way to spend you free time, which us endless, during Covid-19!

Arnav, it's unlocked the Courses. 
As was written.
Enjoy. 

Really excellent work! 

Thank you very much !

woo ya GM avetic it is the best way for beginer to become abetter player soon the ones who have watched your awsome  episodes soon champions would become grandmasters and people would have hard times picking grandmasters

Questions on Rossolimo

Hey guys!

1) After 4.0-0 Bg7 5.c3 Nf6 6.Re1 0-0 7.d4 d5 8.e5 Ne4 there is a new trendy line 9.Be3, after 9...Qb6 10.Bxc6 which recapture is best? Dubov tried both. After 10...bxc6 he lost to Caruana, the he played Anand in Wijk 2020, he played 10...Qxc6 and drew. Still improvement for White in Anand dubov 2020 can be 13.Qxd2 Bxf3 14.gxf3. Improvement for Black can be 12...Nxc5 but I'm not sure at all about arising position after 13.h3.

2)In the same variation after the cool line 9.Bxc6 bxc6 10.Nbd2 Bf5 11.Nh4 e6 12.Nxf5 exf5 13.f3 cxd4 14.fxe4 dxc3 15.bxc3 fxe4 White can try 16.Ba3 Re8 17.Bd6 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 Rxe5 19.Nb3 followed by Qd4 and Nc5 with strong blockade on dark squares. How can we solve this problem?

Thanks in advance! 

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Alex, thanks for questions. 
Please keep them all under 1 post, please. 
You have created already 2 separate posts about Rossolimo. 

Question about Rossolimo

In the line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d3 Bg7 how can we play against 6.0-0 as Caruana played in game 3 of the WCC 2018? Thanks in advance!

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Hey Alex! 
What if Black plays with the same setup? 

Thanks a lot GM Avetik!

These are questions I published in a wrong post. So now I post them here:

1) After 4.0-0 Bg7 5.c3 Nf6 6.Re1 0-0 7.d4 d5 8.e5 Ne4 there is a new trendy line 9.Be3, after 9...Qb6 10.Bxc6 which recapture is best? Dubov tried both. After 10...bxc6 he lost to Caruana, the he played Anand in Wijk 2020, he played 10...Qxc6 and drew. Still improvement for White in Anand dubov 2020 can be 13.Qxd2 Bxf3 14.gxf3. Improvement for Black can be 12...Nxc5 but I'm not sure at all about arising position after 13.h3.

2)In the same variation after the cool line 9.Bxc6 bxc6 10.Nbd2 Bf5 11.Nh4 e6 12.Nxf5 exf5 13.f3 cxd4 14.fxe4 dxc3 15.bxc3 fxe4 White can try 16.Ba3 Re8 17.Bd6 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 Rxe5 19.Nb3 followed by Qd4 and Nc5 with strong blockade on dark squares. How can we solve this problem?

Thanks in advance and congratulation as always for amazing contents of this site!

Question about Accelerated Dragon

Amazing course this one! A lot of ideas to learn! A question: in the line 7.Nc6 9.Bd4 Qa5 10.f4 Rb8 11.Qd2 Nh6N, now 12.Nd1!? seems very critical to me. What do you think about it?

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Hey Alex! 
Thanks for your words. Yeah we worked a lot on this course. 
Nd1 is interesting, but after Qd2 Kd2, Ra8 or a6, and then with d6 or Nf5 first, the endgame should be fine for Black. 

Discord Reminder

Friendly reminder, we have a discord for ChessMood members. It isn't heavily used (yet) but it's fun and easy to communicate with each other. 

https://discord.gg/PF9fh6h

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Thanks, Matt! 

Errors in PGNS

I know the we need to create our own PGNs, but I've been using the ready made ones as starting points for memorization before deepening them. Has anyone noticed any wrong lines in these? One in particualar I've noticed is in  Attack Against Caro-Kann - the PGN has c3 played before Bd3.

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Hey Thomas. 
Thanks for letting us know about the issue. It's fixed. 
#COGRO (Constant growth) 

Group opening study

I was thinking something that could be handy (for me at least) would be some group study, maybe something along the lines of each picking lines and taking time to really understand why the moves are played and the dangers of missing steps of moving in the wrong order, then we quiz each other on the bits we've learnt?

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Good idea Thomas! 
ChessMood PRO Members, put + and join Thomas. 

Thanks to Technical Support

I appreciate the help with my issues. Chess mood has the best technical support! 

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Mattew, thank you so much!
We are thankful to you for your patience with all the issues.
You made our day! <3  

Thank you, Matt!  Hopefully all our members will be like you :)