AwaitingPawns

Personalised Feedback for AwaitingPawns

Congratulations on breaking the 2 000-blitz barrier (2048 (2025-02-04)) and on another productive playing streak! A quick look at your recent games and trends (

What you already do well

• Practical attacking skills. Your wins against bungaharapan_123 and agaklaenkali show confident pawn storms (g- and h-pawns) backed up by piece activity. The following PGN illustrates your conversion technique:
  
  
• Piece activity over material. You are not afraid to give back material to keep the initiative (e.g., 27.Bd5+! in the same game).
• Comfort with the French Defence. Recent black wins show solid understanding of pawn breaks …c5 and …f6, and of typical manoeuvres such as …Nh6–f5.

Key areas to improve

1. Time management. Three of your five latest losses involved either flagging or collapsing under 20 s. Try the “50-40-10” rule: spend ~50 % of your clock on the first 15 moves, 40 % on the middlegame, and keep at least 10 % for the ending. Playing a handful of 10 | 0 games each day will help you slow down calculation without losing the blitz feel.
2. Early pawn thrusts. The g- and h-pawn launches are effective when the centre is closed; in your QGD loss to androide29 the centre was open and the pawn pushes simply created targets. Before pushing a wing pawn ask:
   • “Is the centre locked or can it open in two moves?”
   • “What is my worst-placed piece and could that move be more useful?”
   If the answers aren’t clear, postpone the pawn storm.
3. Queenside space and prophylaxis. Several defeats (e.g., versus davaanyam) followed the pattern …b5 …a5 …b4 against your queen-side. Study classic QGD games by Kramnik to learn how White restrains that minority attack with a4, b3, Rc1 and timely c4 breaks.
4. Endgame conversion. You reach won endings but occasionally let counter-play slip in (see 40…Rc8+! in the Rxb4# loss). Two tasks:
   • “100 Endgames You Must Know” — 3 positions daily for a month.
   • Practise rook-and-pawn vs rook endings against the computer until you can win or draw them with 30 s on the clock; this directly translates to blitz confidence.

Opening tune-ups

• As White: Your 1.d3 move-order is flexible but hands Black the centre. Add a main-line weapon (e.g., the Colle-Zukertort or a pure Reti with c4) so that you can choose between “solid” and “ambitious”.
• As Black vs 1.d4: You alternate Slav structures and Queen’s Gambit Declined. Decide which pawn break you prefer (…c5 in the Slav, or …c6 …e5 ideas in the QGD) and build a concrete move-order file; this will also reduce clock usage.

Next steps (action list)

• Play 10 slow games this week; annotate them yourself before checking the engine.
• Solve 20 tactics daily; emphasise knight forks and deflections, which both sides missed in several featured games.
• Re-watch any game where your opponent forced your king into a mating net — mark every move where you ignored a {{Link|term|zugzwang}} threat or failed to create luft.
• After each blitz session, save one win and one loss to your “Game of the Day” folder for deeper review.

Keep the fighting spirit, balance it with a touch more structure and clock discipline, and 2100+ will be within reach very soon.