Game of the Week LII-Lagarde,Maxime (2638) - Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2489)

The ego leads us to be more interested in what we want rather than what the person in front of us is doing, which is detrimental to chess improvement.

However, chess masters have been training to overcome the ego obstacle with a lot of practice. The most well-known technique is asking questions to themselves during the game, such as: “What does my opponent want?”

Usually, Grandmasters are advanced in this regard and see when a trap is set for them. However, they are not perfect and also can fall into such traps. This brings us to the Game of the Week...

Game of the Week is- Lagarde vs. Mosadeghpour

This is the continuation of the Game of the Week series. All the previous weeks could be found here. Thank you for reading! If you find any noteworthy games that you think should appear on Game of the Week, please send me a message on lichess.org.Please note that Game of the Week will cover games played from Saturday to Saturday of each week, and any games played on Sunday will go to the next week. See you next Sunday! Contributors: Grandmaster Vasif Durarbayli Edited by Della Almind