Solid run, now let's sharpen the weak spots
Aleksandre, you went five for five against kianmehr369, and the tactical reflexes you showed are genuinely sharp. You spotted the open h-file, you punished a queen stuck on an unsafe square, and you finished the job quickly each time. That killer instinct is a real asset. The work now is about making those same ideas work against 2100-level opponents, who will not hand you the f7 square or leave their king in the middle without a plan.
What you did well
- You punished loose pieces. In the Sicilian game you noticed the bishop coming to g4 left the queen exposed, and you simply took it. That calm "is anything hanging?" habit is worth keeping.
- You attacked an uncastled king with every piece. The French game was a textbook chase. Once the h-file opened, you bought your rook into the attack immediately and never let the king settle.
- You kept the initiative. You never drifted into passive defence. Every game you were the one asking the questions.
Openings: build with pieces, not early queen trips
Across these games your White repertoire leaned heavily on Bishop's Opening ideas with the queen coming out on move three hoping for a quick mate on f7. It worked because your opponent defended badly, but two of the wins were essentially Scholar's Mate by a different move order, and one game started with a single pawn to the third rank before the queen went hunting. That approach has a ceiling against stronger players: a queen out early becomes a target and every time you move her again you burn a tempo loss.
A sounder route from the same first move is to put a pawn in the centre, bring out both knights, develop the bishops to active squares and get castled before you start looking for tactics. Keep your knowledge of the e4 and c5 battle, but let the Sicilian Defense positions come from development rather than a queen sortie. Against an 800 you win in 13 moves; against a 2100 you will need a position that is still healthy at move 25.
Review how the opening phase went here: Sicilian game with the early bishop to c4.
King safety cuts both ways
Your attacking play is fun to watch, but in the Caro-Kann Defense game you spent the whole middlegame grabbing pawns and pieces with the queen while your own king stayed in the centre. It worked because your opponent's king was even more exposed, but that is a coin flip you do not want to be making. Watch how many moves your own king sat uncastled there: Caro-Kann king hunt.
The fix is a simple rule. Before you launch a king hunt, ask whether your own king safety is settled. If castling is still available or your king can be dragged into the open, take one move to fix it first. Stronger players will answer a greedy queen raid by opening lines against your king, and the honours will not be yours.
Same story in the French game, where you won a rook on the h-file and then had to keep finding only-moves because your monarch was still sitting in the middle. It worked out, but seen here it is a great lesson: French game, winning the rook on h1.
Play someone who fights back
All five games finished inside a few minutes of a 30 minute control, and none of them reached a real endgame. That means you are getting almost no practice in the part of the game where your level is decided: converting a small edge, handling an endgame with rooks on, and keeping your nerves when a position is balanced rather than on fire.
Try mixing in longer sessions against opponents within a couple of hundred points of your rating. Even a handful a week will show you where your queen-raiding habits break down, and it gives your tactics something to bite on other than free pieces. If you want a quick drill, play out a couple of these wins against the engine from the point where you were clearly better and force yourself to win slowly, without a single queen check.
Your next three steps
- Write down a two-move-deep opening plan for White that starts with a centre pawn, develops knights and bishops, and castles. Stick to it for ten games.
- Before every attacking move, spend five seconds checking whether your own king is safe. That single habit will save you games.
- Play at least a few games a week against near-equal opposition and treat any position where you are up material as a conversion exercise, not a race to mate.
You clearly see tactics faster than your recent opponents. Add structure and patience to that eye, and the jump will come.