Alcides Alexandre A. Azevedo NM

Feedback for Alcides Alexandre A. Azevedo

You've shown strong fighting spirit and good tactical awareness in your recent games. Here are some specific areas to focus on to continue improving:

Strengths

• Opening Preparation: Your repertoire covers a variety of openings like the Ruy Lopez, Caro-Kann, and Sicilian Defense with reasonable understanding, allowing you to reach playable middlegame positions consistently.
• Active Piece Play: Your games demonstrate good piece activity and initiative, especially in handling open positions and launching attacks, such as in the games where you successfully delivered attacks on the opponent’s king.
• Time Management: In most of your wins, you managed your clock well, balancing speed with accuracy, which is important in time controls like 60 minutes plus increments.

Opportunities for Improvement

• Endgame Technique: Some losses occurred in complex endgames or conversions of advantages. Practicing fundamental endgame positions and technique can boost your ability to convert winning chances.
• Miscalculations in Critical Moments: A few tactical oversights in key positions—especially under pressure—allowed opponents to seize the initiative. Slow down during pivotal moments to double-check forcing sequences.
• Positional Understanding: Strengthening your positional play and improving your evaluation skills will help you make better strategic decisions, particularly in quieter middlegames or closed positions.
• Opening Consistency: While diverse, continue to deepen your knowledge of your preferred openings to avoid inaccuracies that may lead to early disadvantages.

Suggestions for Next Steps

• Review your recent games focusing on moments when you lost control—try to understand why certain moves weakened your position or missed tactical shots.
• Drill key endgame patterns such as king and pawn endings, rook endings, and basic mating patterns.
• Incorporate strategic lessons, such as pawn structure, outposts, and piece coordination, through positional understanding resources or annotated master games.
• Practice tactics daily using puzzles to sharpen your calculation and pattern recognition under time pressure.

Your recent victories already demonstrate your potential to climb further. Keep up the focused study and active play, and you will see steady progress!

Here is your most recent win for review and analysis practice.