Coach Chesswick
Hi Andriy 👋 – Review & Action-Plan
1. Quick stats
• Current peak blitz rating:• Most active hours / best score trend:
• Weekly form:
2. What you already do well
- Dynamic pawn play. Games vs Keithonsky (Keith Jeffrey Khumalo) show confident use of passed pawns (a-file runner a6–a8=Q!) to convert initiative.
- Tactical alertness. Tactics such as 22.Nxd5! in your Alekhine win catch opponents off-guard and immediately grab the advantage.
- Piece activity over material. You frequently sacrifice pawns (e.g. 25.Rxe5 vs Yushko_Olga) for open lines and coordinated pieces – a trait of strong practical players.
3. Recurrent problems holding you back
- Time-trouble losses. Three of the last five defeats featured <10 s on your clock while the position was still defensible, most notably flagging vs vladgoncharov.
• Train decision-chunking: force yourself to make a working move every 8-10 s during the opening / early middlegame. - Risky opening experiments with Black against 1.e4.
• The Elephant/Paulsen (…d5 2.exd5 e4) game versus blindmaster2001 left you two pawns down and with an exposed king before move 15.
• Versus the Scotch-Göring line you reached the diagrammed position down material and with loose pieces. - Over-extension on the kingside. In the Réti loss vs ChessboArt, the sequence …h6–g5 led to holes on f6/f5 and stranded pieces. Watch for the moment when advancing a rook pawn actually weakens dark-square control.
4. Opening tune-ups (next 2-3 weeks)
| You have been playing | Try bolstering with |
|---|---|
| Elephant / Latour Gambits | Classical Petrov or Sicilian Kan (low theory, sound structure) |
| …h6–g5 systems vs Réti/London | Calmer setups: …d5, …Nf6, …Bf5/…Bg4 and quick castling |
5. Model position to emulate
The following clip shows excellent coordination after your trademark 23.Nd5! (white squeezes a cramped Black position and later wins):6. Training menu
- Opening audit: For each Black defence write a one-page summary of your main line and two sidelines that opponents play <5 % of the time. Goal: no “blind spots” on move 5.
- Clock discipline drill: Play three 3|2 games per day where you must move before the increment beeps. Review only the moves made under 5 s to see if any were automatic blunders.
- Tactics with a theme. 60 min weekly session on clearance sacrifices & back-rank mates (both appeared in recent wins). Tag any puzzle you fail and redo after 48 h.
- Endgame conversion. Recreate the menelao1986 endgame from move 45 and play it vs engine set to 2200 until you win five times in a row – focus on triangulation, zugzwang and king activity.
7. Mindset reminders
• “Good enough” over “perfect.” Burning 30 s to find +0.3 instead of +0.2 is rarely worth it in 3|1.• Keep counting tempo (tempo) in sharp lines; one spare move often spells the difference in your pawn races.
• Review loss PGNs the same day; the neural pattern is still fresh.
Stick to the plan for two weeks and ping me with your progress. Your ceiling is well above 2500 blitz — let’s reach it! đź‘Ť