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Practical Rook Endgames Part 2 - PGN

Dear friends,

I am attaching the PGN from yesterday's lesson.

Thanks for participating!

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Thank you for this nice lecture! I have one position from my recently played OTB game where I missed an opportunity to activate, white to move I pulled the trigger and played g5, but how can I improve having watched these lectures? 

Hi David,
Thanks for a great webinar and the pgn's!  

Your first webinar “practical rook endgames - part 1” was also very instructive, could you please also add these pgn's for our own repetition? That would be great!

10 Game-changing tips for Blitz

Dear Champions, 

Today I am hosting a webinar covering 10 game-changing tips for the Blitz game.
Find attached the slide - summarizing the ideas I presented - however, to understand better I recommend you to watch the lesson. Here is the link:  https://www.youtube.com/live/W8q9ebQbKDA

 

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ever since the webinar my blitz rating went from 830-1000. The tips work if you apply them! 

Unlocking Courses

Hi ChessMood Family,

Avetik, will you be unlocking the courses this year for International Chess Day? I have been looking forward to it! PLS unlock the courses for us!!

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Like this message if you are in favour of it! (I totally am!)

Well, we unlocked our courses, all of them for a while, we hope that you learn a lot. But please 🥺 don't ask to unlock the courses every time… Otherwise we'll lose our job… :-)

Live event question 22 July

Hello Hovhannes, 

one question about your live events, which I really like

Does 

GM GABUZYAN HOVHANNES

DATE JUL. 22 - 05:00 (EUROPE/BERLIN)

mean Monday at 5 A.M. in the morning?

because there is Queen vs 2 Rooks at 17:oo same day

best regards

Joachim

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Sorry 😐 for the late reply, I didn't notice but the events are displayed in the time zone that you are in. It should be easy but maybe we had the time wrong for this event. Our apologies and we'll try to make it clearer in the future!

Modern Pirc Course Pasini Variation doubt

In the Modern Pirc Chessmood recommends two setups one is Grand-Prix and the other is Pasini variation. But in the Pasini variation what if after 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 here what if black plays 3…c5

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Anti-Sicilian with 2.Nc3 g6 (Part 5)

It is there.

Chessmood Recommendations visible on the webpage

Hello, Maybe i'ts there and I didn't see it but I can't find on the webpage the exactly link that goes to the chessmood recommendations: https://chessmood.com/recommendations , maybe you can add it to the top menu on “Events & more”?

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Yes, we'll do it when we complete the recommendations, I the meantime we don't promote it yet.

Thanks for the reminder though.:-)

A question for Avetik sir and chessmood

In the starter course of blackmood openings while teaching french , it has been mentioned  that for more advance positions of french defence , we can see the main advance video course, but in advance one , i can only see lines for sicilian

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Believe the advanced courses for the French and Dutch are in the process of being made. It's a good thing they don't rush these opening courses. Many other sites do quite the opposite!

d4 sidelines

what to do after d4 Nf6 Nf3

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chessmood hasn't recommended anything there

just play g6. If white plays c4 then the benko with c5, if Bf4 then d5, If Nc3 also d5

Dutch Attack vs London Bd3 Question

Hi there everybody, I had a quick question regarding the Dutch attack opening versus the London. In the course, we play b6 and Bb7, then go for a general setup with Be7, d6, Nd7 and start attacking. However, something which is mentioned quite extensively, is that white has Ng5 which gives us the annoying task of defending our e6 pawn after having played d6. To circumvent this, the idea of playing Ne4 before pushing d6 is mentioned a few times. This is all based on the assumption that white plays Be2 as their main light-squared bishop developmental move. I however face Bd3 way more often. Do you play d6 anyways and just play Qd7 in case of Ng5? I presume playing Ne4 anyways might not be the best idea if they can just take without too many issues. I have taken a look in an analysis board myself but would love to hear your insights. Kind regards, Benn

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Hi Benn, This is a good question, 😀I would reply just now but I would like that someone among the students that has seen the racing events explains it if possible. (If they remember, otherwise we will reply.) 😜

I haven't experience in playing these positions myself, but I have followed streamings, and i presume Ne4 is still the move. If white wants to give the bishop let him do it, and we will take with the pawn

This was played just a few days ago in one of the streams for Pro members, Interactive Lesson: The Games of ChessMood Champions!

I am providing access to this webinar exceptionally to everyone, and specially you Benn, because in the min. 38:40, the same position happens and you can see what Gabuzyan says. 

It is also nice to see the games of our members analyzed, isn't' it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VEz6DS1sW4

😀

Happy learning and no fear of Bd3.

Recommend some games to memorize

I am currently trying to make a personal chessable course to memorize. I currently have the morphy opera game as the sole game. I need some game recommendations-  from you guys. Thanks in advance. 

P.S. If possible, only games with 20~ish moves

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Hi Cate,

The book “The Chess Player's Bible” has some classic game analysis in it (they are short-ish games).  It includes:

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018961

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008421%3E&kpage=1

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1272702

and a short one from “A First Book of Morphy”

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1340106

lol Avetik said he'd throw himself out the window

😀

Protip: Jump out of a window into a swimming pool 

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Pro-protip: Ensure there is water in it first.

pro tip: dont

pro tip: dont try this at home or any other place

Probably the weirdest game featured in a book

Wall, Gavin (2265) vs Steffens, Olaf (2330): Indian Defense: Pseudo-Benko • lichess.org

I just want to show this very weird SLP game which is found in the book “The Complete Chess Swindler: How to Save Points from Lost Positions” as it has quite confused my friend when I showed them it

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anti Sicilian part 1

soo… in 8. Three Options (chessmood.com) which options did you chose?

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play classic game

Hello guys, 

I'm looking for someone play with me classical game online

Rating online above 1800 chess

OR

above 2000 lichess

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Classic tournament preperation

HOW CAN I PREPARE FOR THE CLASSIC TOURNAMENT?

especially, before the tournament and during the tournament

I have 6 weeks and I want a good plan.

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Hi there,

There are lots of blog articles about tournament preparation.  You can see them here: https://chessmood.com/blog/category/tournament-preparation

Bit peed off but this was objectively good

I won every game in this arena. Unfortunately someone else completed more games in the hour so I only got third.

Still proud of my accuracy.

https://lichess.org/tournament/KEbqZBXE

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congrats for your performance! keep the good work 💪

Chessmood tournaments on lichess

I would like chessmood to organize tournaments on lichess as it has been months we have not seen a chessmood tournament and the highly competitive games so please organize a tournament on lichess.

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Hello Adhyayan, Although the main ChessMood club is not organizing any prize tournaments (as far as I know), Tournaments with ChessMood memberships as some of its prizes are still happening. For example, on Jul 13, there was a ChessMood tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/vqorE4jL I would suggest you join their club as they may have some other prized tournaments soon. I have also seen many other tournaments on chess.com that are also offering memberships of ChessMood. 

Hope this helps,

Ashwin C

A Nice Trap In SLP

Heres an example of so far my best SLP.

I was playing another Chessmooder, with knowledge of SLP, and it still worked!

Here is the game (move 40) https://lichess.org/VP0g4lajdBlq

And here is the screenshot. What is Blacks best chance to save the game?

Believe it or not, after Black's 41st move, the position seems to be a draw!

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Just did some analysis, turns out after Blacks 41st move, the position is still winning for White, if they find a 15+ move sequence of computer moves with multiple only moves!

I found the move! It's really nice, and a good idea to be aware of in pawn-heavy endgames. I got it quickly in this puzzle setting, but I'm not sure it would occur to me in an actual game. Nice find!

Nicely done!

I didn't find the move.  That said, I haven't watched the SLP course yet - well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

What course should I get

I have enough mood coins to buy a course. I was wondering which course should I get. I'm a 2000 fide rated player. I hope you guys can give me some courses that you guys think will fit me.

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Hi Roy,

I'm in no position to offer personal advice (I haven't even reached 1,000 yet, let alone 2,000!) but you may find the guidance here useful:

https://chessmood.com/chess-study-plans/for-above-2000

I find buying the blackmood model games really interesting if you use their openings

I think that you should consider where you are weak in, such as tactics endgames, calculation, etc. Hope this is helpful

Hey,

I’m saving up for the “100 Strategic Masterpieces” course:

https://chessmood.com/course/chess-classical-games

mainly because I like the history of the game so much.  I like to play “guess the move” with those and the “Attacking Masterpieces" course, too.

Hi Roy!

I'm not too good either (~1750 OTB), but I definitely think the Tactic Ninja is worth your savings. It will really boost your tactical vision. If you are already too advanced for this, I recommend you to try CalcMan, which aims at strenghtening your calculation, probably very useful as well! 

Have fun learning! 🙂

Daily puzzels

To the moderators of Chessmood,

Why can't we draw arrows on the daily puzzels? Is there a reason behind that? 

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Well you should solve the position in your mind, like in a real game… And I mean OTB game… You cannot improve your calculation and problem solving skills drawing arrows and taking notes… 😅

Maybe I have a suggestion, what if you added a tool where you can analyse the puzzel after you solved it or got it wrong! Is that a good idea?