BerlinRagnar NM

Hi BerlinRagnar!

You play dynamic, principled chess that already pushed you to 2562 (2019-06-03). Below you will find personalised feedback extracted from the sample of your most-recent games.

What you are doing well

• Opening preparation. In your last six wins you used three different openings (Ruy Lopez, Caro-Kann and the English/Réti set-ups) with confident piece placement and zero early blunders.
• Rapid development & king safety. You consistently castle by move 7 and often reach the middlegame with every minor piece participating. The win over mormegil3698 is a model example – by move 18 your rooks were already doubled on the centre files.
• Tactical alertness. Your 17. Rhe1+ in the miniature versus octoberfast shows good pattern recognition; you spotted an overloaded king and converted cleanly.
• Practical rook activity. Even when material is equal you find active rook placements (e.g. 35.Rd6! in the same Ruy Lopez win) that convert small advantages.

Biggest improvement zones

1. Time management. Four of the five losses were decided by either flagging or a blunder made below 10 seconds. Create a habit of using the increment: after every move immediately spend half a second to regain your buffer.
2. Defensive end-games. • In the loss to Bernardo Vainzoff Sztokbant you reached a rook-and-pawn ending where 42...♖e4! held the draw, but you drifted into passivity and got mated. • Against ekurtz you missed 41…♖xe6 43…♖xe6 and the skewer on your king. Plan: add 2–3 practical rook-ending drills to each training session.
3. Handling the King’s-Indian-Attack structures. Three recent losses (vs jovencata, BanjoKazooieN64, ekurtz) arose from early Nf3–g3 setups where you fell behind in the centre. Study typical KIA plans: a quick e4-e5 pawn break, or timely c4/d4 pushes, instead of slow wing moves that gave Black the initiative.
4. Pawns vs pieces in late middlegame. The English loss versus WK_WillianHille shows you grabbed a pawn on d6 but underestimated Black’s passer & rook activity. Use the “material vs. momentum” checklist before capturing: (a) Is my king safe? (b) Are my pieces coordinated? (c) What does my opponent get in return?)

Opening snapshots

Four-week action plan

• Week 1: Every day solve 20 timed puzzles; abort the attempt if you drop below 30 sec to mimic game pressure.
• Week 2: Play 10 blitz games exclusively from an inferior rook endgame starting position on a training site; focus on the drawing resources.
• Week 3: Annotate one of your KIA losses without an engine, then compare with Stockfish 15. Note every pawn push that the engine flagged as “inaccurate”.
• Week 4: Create a personal Time-Budget Rule (e.g. “never below 15 sec before move 30”) and enforce it in rated games.

Warm-up tactic

White to move and exploit the pinned knight (taken from your win vs Mormegil3698):

At a glance

Keep the passion and your rating will soon cross the next milestone. Good luck and buen juego!