Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions! 
Welcome to the "Best games of June 2021" competition.
Under this post, we invite you to post your 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 May:

Vladimir Bugayev
Green Keo
Devansh Shah
Robert J
Abhi Yadav

Hello ChessMood Family! 
Now I'm adding model games in each section of our course, so you have a better understanding of the positions. Some of them, I'll also add in the book, that I'm writing now (later about that.) 

Why did I write this post? :) 
If you played nice and instructive games with our ChessMood openings - please post here. 
I would be happy to add them as well. 

P.S 
The first course, where I'm going to add model games, gonna be the Scotch game. If you want to make a research in your games, start from the Scotch :) 

Hello, champions. 
Here you can find sparring partners. 
You can write, for example, 

"Hey guys, my name is Bob, I'm from the USA, my rating is 2000 I'm looking for a sparring partner." 

Or even more specific like "I just finished the Caro-Kann course and I'm looking someone to play a friendly sparring games". 

Good luck! 
Hopefully, you'll find good friends too. 

Hello champions and welcome to the ChessMood team! 
We all are from different countries, different ages, have different professions... But one thing bounds us - the passion for chess.

Champions, we'll grow together and keep a warm relationship in our team. 
Please tell a bit about yourself in this post. 

#ChessMood_Family 

Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions! 
Happy New Year and welcome to the "Best games of March 2021" competition.
Under this post, we invite you to post your 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 February: 

1st Arman Shahzamani
2nd Vladimir Bugayev
3rd Abhi Yadav
4th Sean Raasch
5th Vibhush Pusapadi

Here is modern example of Winter-Capa game. 

Bg6 trapped in the game and So did so well. 

https://live.followchess.com/#!superbet-chess-classic-gct-2021/186406715

i came across a very interesting 

share evaluation with lines. It's white to move.

It's interesting that if you list all the variations of this course, the usual cause of branches and different moves for White is which move Black plays e6 on (or if at all). 12... e6 (instead of the trap of taking the rook) is not covered in the course, only 11... e6.

It is a transposition, in that Bg5! and h6 (probably being the only reply) transposes into video 4 (11... e6). There is a danger though of going down the 'rabbit hole' of 12... e6 13. fxg6/e6 which is the computer's suggestion, supposedly winning unless you leave it long enough or explore. If you do, there is a long (almost forced line): 12... e6 13. fxg6 (or fxe6) fxg6 (hxg6 14. Bg5 wins) 14. Bxe6+ Kh8 15. Bg5 h5 16. Rf1 Nh7 (Surprise! The queen isn't free as Bd4+ is threatened) 17. Rxf8+ Qxf8 18. Rf3 Bd4+ 19. Kf1 Qg7 20. Bb3 - if 20... Bxc3 21. bxc3 Qxc3 22. Bf6+ Nxf6 23. Qxf6+ Qxf6 24. Rxf6 = (well maybe White has a few more practical chances).

So 13. Bg5 with transposition is a better try for a win (the computer doesn't notice White is better for a bit), and let's not go to the complications of 13. fxg6 (it's a silly place!).

In past I  was in stream of Coach Avetik Grigoryan and he asked a question to all of us about a position. It was like Capa endgame position. When I answered then he said good job and then he revealed that when he was analyzing games for endgame course then he found that Alekhine was also superb in endgame skills. But we all know him as attacking player. So it was strange thing for me. How many of you knows about amazing endgames of Alekhine? Do you guys have any endgame collections of Alekhine or some of his amazing endgames  in which he showed class!

Pablo Ricardi - Nicolai Vesterbaek Pedersen, Olympiad, Calvia (Spain), 2004.10.19

Anyone interested in studying regularly?

My fide elo is 1400.

for more info i we will chat by lichess.

As coach explained us how to improve our openings and the importance of adding new moves in our repo which we faced online. So my new idea is that is it possible for all of you guys to share your new moves which you faced online or offline so with this we can improve our repo so fast and help each other to grow. Instead of keeping new moves to us we all can shares so many new moves to each other with some analysis and help each other to grow. I also thought that coaches of CM team also face so many new moves online which they keep in their files so it will be so fun if coaches also share their new moves here after every month is over so we can also add those moves in our opening database.

Also, if anyone wants to work on middlegames or endgames and openings also can contact me. I am the super active member of Chessmood Community so I will be so helpful for everyone who are super dedicated to work!

Good luck in your chess guys. I hope my idea will be useful. Let's grow together!

One way to find out (without going through a ton of streams):

lichess.org/games/export/gabuzyan_chessmood

Open the pgn file in a database and order by eco or moves to group variations together. Just remember to check with the engine / course as they sometimes contain mistakes or deviate from the suggested lines.

In this post let's discuss the pros and cons of K-factors for adults. Now a days kids can become so strong because they play without pressure of K factor thing but what about adults like me and other adults? We have only first 40 games which gives us K-40 rest goes down and down on the other han kids have more chances due to under 18 thing. I totally disagree with FIDE rules regarding K factors because I think it gives more opportunity to only kids but does not help aduts like us. Kids have no responsibilities but on the other hand adults like us have more challange. 

In case of me I have only 12 games left for K-40 factor then this factor goes down. If we think in realistic sense then it will become so much tough for me to become GM. Because we all know becoming a Grandmaster requires so much work and money and coaches and so on but also elo sucks. It will take more than 10+ events for a player like me to learn and maintain 2000 elo strength then real battle will start. Yes I believe I can get 2000 elo once events will start but this is just a milestone and then getting title will become more and more tough.  Even if I do my best this elo may affect my work. I saw so many strong players who started late and never became  2000+ due to this K systems. 

About me? I work well with my teammates so my game is def. improving and I do know that chess game level matters not elo but in order to get students and money we need elo also. I left everything for chess because my mind can't think of other things now a days apart from chess.  Even though I am able to understand computers faster than chess but still I chose chess because I love this game so I work on my game strength 

I wanna know your opinions guys.  Like some of the adults who are in chessmood to become titled players. How you handle this rating k factors things and how you believe that you will cross 2200+ even with less k-factors. Share your strategies also. 

Again, I wanna say I know game matters not elo but still i wanna know how you guys handle less k-40 thing.

Hey Champions,

I am just curious if the article about concentration and quality of the training helped you to change something. Please let me know here and share your experience.

Hello guys - I thought it will be interesting if everytime we feel that we spot a mistake in the videos we post it here. 

This is not with bad intentions! I understand that it is normal that after recording so many hours there can be minor errors in tactical shoots or calculation or simply something that the person recording the video may have missed.

I think this may be useful for 3 reasons:

1- maybe not too strong players may see that there is a 'potential error' and believe that it is not a real error it is only that they are not too strong. OR, it can be that we find something that we think is an error and in reality it is not. So, it opens some debate and room for helping each other.

2- will put us into 'active mood'. This is help us to not watch videos only passively, but being attentive to try to discover some errors, hence keeping us engaged. 

3- FInally, although is not the intention. May help to the Chessmood team in case that they want to make some corrections. 

Here is an example: 

BEnko Gambit video 10 (07:57)
 
Actually, Nd1 + is impossible due to Rxd1 ;) So better to finde something else in casae of Rc2!

Hello ChessMood family, hello champions and future champions! 
Welcome to the "Best games of May 2021" competition.
Under this post, we invite you to post your 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 April:

Claudio Thoux 
Vladimir Bugayev
David Tiraturyan 
Abhi Yadav 
Paulius Juknis 

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c4 e5 6. dxe5 Nxe5 7. Qe2 Qe7 8. Bb5+ Bd7 9. Bxd7

Unfortunately Kxd7 has been overlooked here and needs considering as I found out. The idea is that Re8 is coming, and yes the d-pawn is a long term liability, but before the middlegame, the Gods placed getting whacked around in an opening by a caveman where you can't castle.

After 10. Qb5+, both Kc7 and Kc8 have been played, both scoring Black wins for 2200 players (lichess' db for what it's worth) and the White king position comes under attack; Chessbase has 11  games with 2 White wins, 2 losses and the rest draws.

I'll need to look a bit deeper at these lines with the engine, but it may be that although long term White has a big plus, practically, particularly in blitz with a seasoned caveman on the other side, this is around equal chances for the club player at least looking at the defence the computer put up (stronger players might be able to tactically survive over the board) - and as a White player do you really want to have to study this rare line in depth and remember all the ways Black can annoy you.

Perhaps for practicality purposes, 8. Be3 should be considered giving a bishop for a knight, but black still has an isolated pawn which knights will be happy to blockade if given the chance: 11 White wins, 1 loss (lichess), 4 wins, 1 loss (and that was loss was unrated players) Chessbase.

Soon will start updating my new and daily chess self study updates. 

I don't see PGN for English course.  Thank you.

Sir is it still possible to get a pro-membership through mood coins?

I lost to this line all the time. Please help. Thanks!