Aiden Q Liu FM

Hi Aiden, here’s some personalized feedback based on your recent blitz games!

1. Overall trajectory

• Great to see you hovering around your personal best of 2328 (2024-12-31).
• Your score curves show clear “hot hours” and “cold hours”; use the data below to schedule focused sessions.
  
• Consistency by day is also trending up, with only a slight dip on Fridays:
  

2. What you’re doing well

1. Opening range & flexibility. You switch comfortably between 1.e4 and 1.d4 and handle both French-type and Sicilian positions as Black. Your quick win vs harish_salem shows good familiarity with French sidelines:
   
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2. Tactical alertness. Your 17…Rd1+!! in the game against mr_da_goat converted a material edge flawlessly. Spotting back-rank and over-loaded piece themes is clearly a strength.
3. Willingness to seize the initiative. Early pawn storms with g- and h-pawns often put your opponents on the back foot.

3. Main improvement areas

A. Time management

You lost on time vs Hong Jun Lai in a roughly equal rook ending. Your average clock usage shows you spend too much time in familiar openings and then blitz critical middlegame positions. Try the “40-20-20-20 rule” for blitz:

• 40 % of your time for the opening and early middlegame (moves 1-15).
• 20 % for tactical complications (moves 16-25).
• 20 % for converting a winning position.
• 20 % kept in reserve for messy endings.

B. Pawn-storm discipline

Your most recent loss to David Galstyan stemmed from a premature pawn push (8.g3–h4) that weakened dark squares:

Before pushing kingside pawns, ask yourself two questions:
1) “What squares become weak?”  2) “Can my opponent open lines toward my own king faster than I can attack?”
If either answer is uncomfortable, delay the pawn storm.

C. Dealing with structural concessions

Several losses in the Titled Tuesday sample feature isolated or backward pawns left unattended (e.g. the d6-pawn in your Sicilian games). Add a 10-minute session of “pawn-structure flashcards” after every playing day: pick one game, identify all pawn weaknesses, and note three candidate plans for each side.

D. Endgame conversion

Even when you’re winning you sometimes prefer direct mating attacks over simple technical wins, burning time and giving counter-play. Study 10 adjourned positions with “rook+minor vs rook” ahead and practice converting them against the computer on move-time odds (5 sec vs you; you must win).

4. Opening homework for the week

5. Training plan (next 14 days)

1. Daily: 20 tactic puzzles + 1 endgame study.
2. Alternate days: play one 10|0 rapid game and annotate it before checking with the engine.
3. Twice a week: rehearse your top three openings in “drill mode” (Chess.com opening explorer or a physical board) for 30 minutes.
4. Weekly: blindfold replay of one of your wins to reinforce pattern memory.

Keep it up!

Your attacking flair is a joy to watch—polish the strategic and time-handling side and you’ll be pushing well beyond the 2300 blitz mark soon. Feel free to reach out with any questions or game submissions for deeper review.