ChessMood

Happy Birthday to our investor, Godfather and fellow chess enthusiast, Baddredine Ouali 🎂😍 Behind every mission, there's someone who believed in it first. Thank you for being that person for us! 🫂 Wishing you health and happiness as great as your generosity ❤️ Sharing a picture of one of our best days together 📸 From left to right: Mr. Nikolay (GM Avetik's father), Baddredine Ouali, GM Artur Yusupov, GM Avetik.

Reminder 📣 Qualifier #4 starts tomorrow ‼️ 🗓️May 20 • ⏰20:00 UTC Be there when the clock starts ticking! Good luck to everyone 🤩@lichess

Happy Birthday to the kindest heart, the big brother, a wonderful father, Coach GM Gabuzyan! 🎉🎂 We love you, your jokes, and the way you always show up with cakes and sweets 😄🥰 Enjoy your day 🕺

A new generation is taking over chess 🔥 Unstoppable. Unbeaten. Dominant. Winning the 2026 FIDE Candidates before the tournament even finished!!! 🏆 Congratulations to Javokhir Sindarov, the new World Championship challenger! 🎉 @GMJSindarov

Happy Birthday to the 13th World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov! 🤩 A true legend who shaped chess history and inspired generations 👑

The Challenge: If you're stuck in "when I reach 2000, then I'll feel good" — flip it. BE first. Give yourself just 7 days of feeling good before the work, the grinding, the achieving. You'll see the magic. In your life. And at the board.

The Chess Proof: You can't play your best chess in a bad mood. It just doesn't work that way. Every brilliant combination, every clutch defense, every tournament win — they happen when the mood is right before the pieces are touched. Right Mood → Right Move. That's not just a slogan. It's how chess actually works.

More training. Better openings. Longer sessions. And still stuck. The problem might not be your chess. It might be what you’re carrying into every game and every session before you even touch the pieces. These are the key ideas we took from our latest article by GM Avetik — a lesson from his coach Dr. Rao Srikumar that flipped his thinking about chess, work, and life upside down 🔽

RIP to our popular “Opening Principles” course 🪦 After seeing this, we decided to remove it 💔

Which player broke your heart by not making it to the Candidates? 💔

Happy Birthday to one of the strongest Armenian Grandmasters, a member of the Armenian national team, our good friend and team member Robert Hovhannisyan! 🎉🎂 For those who don't know, Robert is one of ChessMood's coaches and one of the sharpest endgame minds you'll find ♟️ When most players see a lost endgame and resign, he sees an opportunity 🙂 Take a look at one of Robert's epic saves 👇💥 White to play. Note: Robert played h5 two moves ago and it wasn't random 🤫