Ahmed Elnabawy

Hi Ahmed!

You have played enough games recently for clear trends to emerge. Below is a concise report structured to reinforce what you are already doing well and to focus practice time where it will bring the biggest rating gains.

👍 Your current strengths

• Tactical eye: Your recent wins show you constantly spotting forks and mating nets (e.g. the combination 24. Nxg6! in the game against filiprosic).
• Piece activity in the middlegame: When you do get developed you usually place the pieces on aggressive squares and maintain the initiative.
• End-game technique: In several wins you simplified into a clearly won ending and converted without serious slips (see moves 40-49 of your win vs. fatih1492).

🔍 Biggest improvement themes

1. Opening efficiency & centre control
   • With White you are using 1. e3/2. d3. The setup is playable, but it hands Black the centre and leaves you fighting from behind.
   • With Black you default to French structures (…e6/…d6/…Nd7/…Ne7), but often delay …d5 too long and let White build space.
   Action plan: Replace the double-fianchetto manoeuvring with a principled open-centre line for both colours (e.g. learn the first 10 moves of the Queen’s Gambit as White and the Classical French as Black). Doing so will cut several early queen moves and free up development time.
2. King safety
   • Loss vs. raragacor: after 10…O-O you expanded with 12. Qxb7 and 14. Qxa7, leaving your own king on e8 and your pieces undeveloped.
   • Loss vs. alex-chiri: an early …Qf6/Qg6 offered counter-play but cost too many tempi and invited 15. g4! with your king still in the centre.
   Action plan: Adopt a “three-piece rule”: castle only after at least three minor pieces are developed, and avoid pawn grabs that delay that goal. Review the motif of the zwischenzug to recognise when development outweighs material.
3. Pawn-structure awareness
   • In several French structures you exchanged on d5 or d4 at the first opportunity, removing the tension that would later give you counter-play.
   Action plan: Work through 10 classical French games from top players, focusing only on when they release the centre tension. Mimic that timing in your own games.
4. Handling pressure & patience
   Games vs. lapulapu1 and kiyotakaayanokouji1234567 show good positions spoiled by forcing sequences that were not necessary. Slow moves such as Re8-f8 or h6-g5 instead of immediate piece sacrifices would have maintained equality.
   Action plan: In training games, add a 5-second “blunder check” for every non-forced capture or sacrifice. Ask: “Is my king safe? Are all my pieces protected after my candidate move?”

📌 Concrete example (critical moment)

After 12…O-O in your loss to r aragacor the position was:

You grabbed a pawn, but Black immediately opened the centre and your king never reached safety. Notice how one tempo (14.Qc7 or 14.Qe4 consolidating) would have kept control.

⏱️ Time-management tip

You usually finish with more than 3 minutes on the clock. Convert 30-40 seconds of that surplus into extra blunder-checking time in moves 10-20—where most of the decisive mistakes currently occur.

🌱 Next steps for the coming week

• Daily: 10 puzzles rated 100-200 points above your current puzzle rating focusing on “defence”.
• Opening study: spend one session building a forced 1-e4 e6 line as Black and a 1-d4 line as White (no more than 10 moves deep).
• Play three sparring games where you forbid yourself from moving the queen before move 10 unless it is a forced tactic.
• Review them, marking every move where you failed the “three-piece rule”.

📈 Motivation corner

Your tactical sharpness suggests you can climb quickly once the openings stabilise. Aim for 739 (2025-06-19) +100 in the next month—very realistic with the above adjustments.
Check progress in your personal dashboards:

Good luck, keep the pieces coordinated, and enjoy the journey!