Jack Mizzi CM

Hi Jack Mizzi – Personalised Coaching Feedback

Snapshot

• Peak blitz rating: 2677 (2025-05-21)
• When you win most often:

What you’re already doing well

1. Versatile Fianchetto Repertoire. With both colours you feel at home in Catalan/KID-style positions and often steer the game there early.
2. Tactical alertness. 19.Ne6! against BadTheory1 and 37.Rxd8# versus Rutvij09 show that you calculate quickly and aren’t afraid of sharp lines.
3. Practical clock management when ahead. In most victories you finished with 10-20 s to spare, keeping pressure on opponents who were in time trouble.

Recurring themes to fix

1. Unsafe pawn storms. In both losses to Jerome Villanueva you pushed …h5/…h4 far too early, weakening g6 & f6. Follow the three-piece rule: launch a pawn only when three pieces back it up.
2. Over-pressing equal positions. Against mt104 you rejected simple consolidation (…Re8, …Nd6) and played …Ne4?! which lost material. Remember: with Black an equal end-game is fine.
3. Conversion technique. You were +5 vs brhath yet got mated. Add a “What’s my opponent’s threat?” check before every move when winning.
4. Basic rook endings. Several detours suggest limited familiarity with Lucena/Philidor setups. Ten minutes of end-game drills a day will pay off quickly.

Opening homework for the week

Key tactical motif to study

The zwischenzug zwischenzug. You missed 34…Qh2+! in the brhath game – a classic in-between move that would have traded queens and held the draw.

Replay & reflect

Go through your cleanest win once without an engine, explaining every move aloud, then engine-check it. Here is the PGN:

Next steps

• Play three sparring games from move 14 of your first loss to Jerome, defending the position with Black.
• After every session note one critical mistake and one highlight – the “mistake-check-annotate” cycle.
• Email me one annotated loss before our next call so we can dive deeper.

Keep sharpening your tactics and tightening your defence – that combination will take you past 2700 blitz. Good luck!