Overall Assessment
You are clearly an elite blitz player with sharp tactical instincts and a confident feel for the initiative. The most recent win shows very high-class play in the Maroczy Bind. What separates that game from the losses is not calculation strength, but decision making around the king and the clock. When you are able to develop freely and keep your king safe, you play with great authority. The challenge now is to bring that same discipline to games where the opponent creates early chaos or your own attacking plan demands concessions.
What You Are Doing Well
Your game against Ali Sebbar was a model of how to handle a closed structure. In the Sicilian win, you correctly kept the center fluid, played useful waiting moves with the queen and rook, and waited for the right moment to strike. The combination starting with the queen check and the knight jump to the seventh was cleanly calculated, and you converted the material without letting your opponent back into the game. That game shows your ability to accumulate small edges and then finish precisely when the opportunity appears.
You also show good opening range and flexibility. The Sicilian Defense results in your recent openings, especially in the Accelerated Dragon lines, are solid. When you are allowed to impose your own structures, you outplay strong opponents comfortably.
Key Area: King Safety Must Come First
The clearest pattern in the recent losses is that when you win material or start a kingside raid, your own king gets left behind. In the Scandinavian game, you grabbed a rook on the queenside with the knight, but the real game was happening around your king. After the queen entered on e3 and the knights invaded on g4 and h2, material no longer mattered because the king was too exposed. The lesson is not to avoid grabbing material, but to ask before you do: is my king safe if the attack comes at full speed?
A good rule: after winning material, spend a move on consolidation, especially if your king has not castled or if pawns around it have been advanced. In blitz this feels slow, but it is the difference between converting a clear advantage and being mated.
Key Area: Do Not Overextend Against Strong Defenders
In the Philidor game, the plan with an early queen to d2, long castling, and a g4-h4 pawn storm was aggressive, but it gave White's knight a poor home on a4, and the opponent punished it immediately with the bishop attack. Once the knight was trapped and the b-pawns doubled, the position was already very difficult. Against elite defenders, the pawn storm only works if your pieces are coordinated first.
This connects to the Reti Opening loss in the game against GMKrikor: you reached a playable middlegame, but then allowed the position to open up while your king remained exposed on the long side. The time pressure amplified the problem, since the final moves were played with only seconds on the clock. Try to make your critical decisions before the clock becomes a factor, and if you are short on time, prefer simplifying into an endgame with your king safe rather than allowing a double-edged middlegame.
Key Area: Have a Plan for When the Attack Is Repelled
In the London System game, you built up a promising kingside attack with the f-pawn push and the b-pawn expansion. White defended well, and once the attack ran out of steam, you were left with a worse position and little time. This is a common issue after a failed pawn storm: the energy is spent, and the opponent's central pieces take over.
When you are pushing pawns against the king, keep a mental check of what your plan is if the opponent makes the best defensive moves. If you cannot see a way to force the issue, prefer to keep the tension and improve your worst piece instead of committing to a permanent weakening move. Sometimes the best attack is the one you do not make yet.
Specific Advice for Your Next Blitz Session
- For the next few games, when you win material, make your very next move a defensive one: move the king to safety, connect the rooks, or block the open file against your king. This will feel uncomfortable but it will stop the counterattacks that cost you these games.
- When you are in time pressure, switch to a simpler plan. Trading queens or major pieces is usually better than calculating a long forcing line if you are under 30 seconds.
- Before starting a pawn storm, verify that your king is not more exposed than the opponent's. A good question to ask: whose king has more escape squares?
- Against very strong opponents, do not rely on "hope chess" where you expect them to miss the best defense. Assume your attack will be met by the best moves, and only commit if you are still satisfied with the position afterward.
Final Thought
Your trajectory is clearly upward, and the win against Ali Sebbar shows you can play at the level of the best. The losses are not due to lack of talent or tactics; they are due to a few concrete decision rules that, when applied consistently, will turn these near misses into wins. Focus on king safety as your number one priority, and the results will follow.