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title: Game of the Week LII-Lagarde,Maxime (2638) - Mosadeghpour,Masoud (2489)
description: Man’s ego is always the biggest obstacle on his way to success.
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**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**

https://lichess.org/study/GWPZqTsb/yeo5R3z8

This is the continuation of the Game of the Week series. All the previous weeks could be found [here](https://www.chess.com/blog/gameofweek). 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](https://lichess.org/@/Durarbayli) Edited by [Della Almind](https://lichess.org/@/QueenDella)