What Is Going Really Well
Your attacking instincts are the strongest part of your game right now. In your win against lz_234 you built a proper pawn storm with the pawns in front of your king marching up the board, and once the files opened your rook came swinging across to deliver the final blow. That is a real skill. Many players your level simply do not know how to convert a space advantage into a direct attack on the enemy king.
The same theme shows up against dienzi02, where your pieces and pawns swarmed the kingside until your opponent had no good defence left. You are comfortable playing with the initiative, and you are not afraid to give material to keep it.
You also finished the job against khanij001 in a messy endgame, pushing a passed pawn all the way to promotion and finding the queening move with check. Plenty of club players would have fumbled that, so well done.
Your Attack Is Great, Your King Safety Is Not
The flip side of loving pawn pushes is that your own king often becomes the softer target. When you throw the pawns forward, take five extra seconds and ask: if my opponent gets a piece to my king first, do I have an escape square and a defender nearby? Your king safety needs to be checked before the storm, not after it starts.
A practical habit: before every pawn push in front of your own king, name the enemy piece that could land on the weakened squares. If the answer is uncomfortable, consider a developing move instead of another pawn lunge.
The Blunder That Cost You Against haakonueland
Your loss to haakonueland in the Sicilian Defense is the clearest teaching moment. In the middle of a complicated position you sent your knight forward to a square where nothing defended it, and your opponent's queen jumped down into your position, hitting both the loose knight and your queen at the same time.
This is textbook Loose Pieces Drop Off. Before you move, do a quick scan of your own pieces and ask which ones are undefended or only defended by something that is already busy. If two of them sit on the same line or square colour, your opponent probably sees it too.
Clock Discipline
Several of your games show a big time gap. In the Queen's Gambit win you were down to about twenty seconds while your opponent still had over two and a half minutes, and in your win against lz_234 you had used three minutes more than your opponent by move twelve. Playing fast is fine early, but spending your thinking time on move three instead of move twenty is backwards.
Try this: in the first ten moves, play the move you already know and move on. Save your long thinks for the moment the pieces start trading. That way you are not sitting in time pressure during the phase where accuracy actually decides the game.
Opening Notes For Your Repertoire
- Your Caro-Kann Defense results are clearly a strength. Both as White and as Black you are scoring well, and the structures suit your patient then explosive style. Consider making it your main answer to one of the two central pawn openings and learning the typical plans a few moves deeper.
- The Alapin lines against the Sicilian are a mixed bag. The standard version treats you well, but the sharper Sherzer style line is where you keep dropping points. Either commit to learning the key ideas in that line properly or steer into the calmer structures you already handle well.
- You clearly enjoy unusual first moves and early flank pawn pushes. That is fun and it wins games for you, but it also means you are often out of the book by move four. When you are out of theory, the plan matters more than the move, so ask what your pawn structure is actually trying to achieve.
Three Things To Practice This Week
- Blunder check before every move: undefended pieces, enemy queen, checks and captures. Ten seconds, every move.
- Play five games where you deliberately keep at least four minutes on the clock before move fifteen. Train yourself to spend time later, not earlier.
- Take one attacking game of yours and one loss, and replay them without an engine. Write down the moment where things turned. That pattern recognition is what turns a good attacker into a consistent winner.
You are improving fast and your fighting spirit is exactly the right foundation. Tighten the loose pieces and the clock, and the results will follow.