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Quick summary

Great stretch — you're converting a lot of winning positions, your one-month jump (+40) and positive short-term slope show you’re climbing. Your strengths: creating and marching connected passed pawns, clean tactical conversions, and solid results with closed / positional systems. Below are targeted, practical suggestions based on your recent games.

What you’re doing well

• You create and push passed pawns very effectively — in the win vs. SamyakBaid you advanced the a‑pawn to promotion and converted accurately under pressure.
• Good endgame technique: you trade into winning king-and-pawn / queen endgames rather than letting counterplay hang around.
• Opening selection fits your style — you get good results with closed systems (Closed Sicilian, Catalan) and the Caro‑Kann Exchange where you score above 50%.
• Practical play in blitz: you find clean forcing moves and simplify to winning material or a winning pawn race instead of overcomplicating in time trouble.

Recurring issues to fix

• Queen activity and back-rank / 2nd rank tactics — several losses come after an enemy queen infiltrates and picks off material (watch for early queen checks and forks).
• Occasional piece coordination lapses: when you push pawns aggressively (f4/e5 style) a few pieces can become out of play or undefended — watch the defenders of weak squares.
• Vulnerable lines in a few opening lines — your QGD Exchange branch shows a low win rate. Review typical pawn-structure plans there so you don’t drift into passive posts.
• Time management in 3|0: you sometimes reach the last 10–20 seconds with complex decisions. That increases blunder chances in the critical final phase.

Concrete study & training plan (2–4 weeks)

• Daily tactics (15–25 minutes): focus on forks, pins and discovered checks. Aim for mixed difficulty and do at least 20 puzzles / day. This reduces quick tactical oversights in blitz.
• Endgame practice (3× / week, 20 minutes): king + pawn vs king, rook endgames, and queen vs pawn endgames. Drill promotion races and opposition — you’re already good here; make it bulletproof.
• Opening review (2× / week, 45–60 minutes): concentrate on your weaker lines — start with the QGD: Exchange line and the specific sideline(s) you play. Learn the standard break ideas and one typical plan for both sides. Use Caro-Kann Defense and Pirc Defense style notes when relevant.
• Game analysis routine: after a loss, do a two-step review — (1) without engine: find the turning point and write a short note; (2) with engine: confirm tactical misses and note alternative moves. Do this for 5 recent decisive games.
• Time-control practice: add some 3|2 or 5|0 rapid games weekly. The extra increment will help you practice accurate decision-making with time to calculate (will improve your 3|0 conversions).

Pre-move checklist for blitz (quick, use every turn)

• Are any of my pieces hanging or can the opponent win material next move?
• Does my opponent have an active tactic (check, fork, pin, discovered attack)?
• If I push a pawn, which square weakens and who will occupy it?
• Would a simplification (trade queens/rooks) remove counterplay and make my passed pawn decisive?
• Do I have at least one forcing candidate move — check captures, checks, threats first.

Short notes from specific recent games

• Win vs samyakbaid — excellent plan: you created a passed a‑pawn, supported it, escorted it to promotion and avoided unnecessary complications. Your conversion from the passed pawn was textbook. Review that final queen endgame pattern — you forced queen trades at the right moment and used active king moves.
• Win vs Mihai Ionescu and Evgeniy Khain — you picked tactical targets and sacrificed (or gave up) material to open lines around the enemy king. Good intuition for when to simplify into favorable endgames.
• Loss vs Ignacio Raviolo — the game turned when your queenside structure got undermined and you allowed the opponent’s queen to invade the 4th/2nd rank. Work on avoiding early pawn concessions that create permanent weaknesses (especially on the light squares near your king).

Practical improvements for the next 10–20 blitz games

• Before each game, pick one tiny goal: “don’t allow queen checks on the 2nd rank” or “convert passed pawns by trading into a queen endgame.”
• When you have a winning pawn majority/passed pawn, try to calculate the promotion race first — if it’s close, simplify into fewer pieces.
• If your opponent has active queen checks, keep a flight square for your king early (a quick luft or a rook to the 2nd rank can save a lot of headaches).
• After a loss, spend 10 minutes on it immediately. The fresh memory makes it easier to spot the actual mistake.

Example: replay your promotion win (key game)

Open the game below to replay the sequence where you create and win with a passed pawn. Study the moments where you traded down to a winning queen endgame and the checks you used to force the opponent's king away.

Resources & next steps

• Daily: 15–25 min tactics + 10 min game review (no engine first).
• Weekly: two 45–60 min opening sessions — focus one on your bad QGD: Exchange results and one on typical sidelines opponents used to punish you.
• Play a few 3|2 or 5|0 games to practice time for calculation — keep the blitz cycle to sharpen instincts, and the slightly longer controls to fine‑tune accuracy.
• If you want, I can prepare a short annotated recap of your loss vs Ignacio Raviolo (5 turning points) or a micro‑lesson on converting a passed pawn to queen. Tell me which you prefer.

Opponent quick links

• SamyakBaid — samyakbaid
• Mihaiionescu1 — Mihai Ionescu
• neistoviupryam — Evgeniy Khain
• x-8369013935 — x-8369013935
• Tiohoracio — Ignacio Raviolo