Eihartze Buiza Prieto WFM

Feedback for Eihartze Buiza Prieto

Dear Eihartze,

You've shown solid understanding and strategic awareness in many of your recent games. Here are some key points to help you continue improving your chess skills:

Strengths

• Opening Knowledge: Your repertoire, including Sicilian and Ruy Lopez variations, shows good preparation. You handle complex positions well and often reach active piece play early in the game.
• Tactical Awareness: In winning games, you’ve demonstrated sharp tactical vision — for instance, exploiting pins and skewers effectively, and timing attacks such as sacrifices on h6 and tactical shots in the middlegame.
• Endgame Technique: When converting advantages, you remain calm, showing good endgame technique and positional understanding to press for a win or maintain winning chances.

Areas to Work On

• Time Management: There were a few games lost due to time pressure, so improving your clock management will be valuable. Try to balance spending time on critical decisions with keeping enough to avoid rushed moves in complex positions.
• Defensive Play: Some losses show opportunities to improve your defensive resilience, especially in counterattacks or under pressure. Focus on maintaining piece coordination and avoiding passive moves that can lead to overwhelming activity for your opponent.
• Calculation Accuracy: While your tactical vision is good, double-checking calculations in critical positions can help reduce blunders, especially in complicated middlegame situations.
• Positional Planning: Exploring deeper plans in quieter positions could help you build more sustainable advantages. Sometimes more prophylactic moves or better piece placement can prevent opponent counterplay before initiating attacks.

Suggestions for Improvement

• Study classical games in your favorite openings to strengthen your grasp of strategic themes.
• Practice puzzles focused on tactics, especially endgame tactical motifs, to sharpen calculation under time pressure.
• Analyze losses, focusing on where you lost the initiative or fell behind in development, and consider alternative moves.
• Play slow time control games occasionally to develop patience and more thorough calculation.

Keep up the great work, and continue enjoying your chess journey!