Dipro Chakraborty NM

Personalised Feedback for Dipro Chakraborty

Quick Stats

Peak ratings: 2830 (2025-05-21), 2702 (2025-03-28), 2423 (2019-02-05)
Performance snapshots:

What You’re Doing Well

• Structured repertoire. Your Caro-Kann (Black) and Old Benoni/Queen’s-Pawn setups (White) consistently reach comfortable middlegames.
• Tactical vision. The mate vs ნაზი თებიძე and the exchange-sac sequence against camel8 show excellent calculation skills.
• End-game technique. Clean conversion of rook-and-pawn endings (e.g. vs slepstari) demonstrates solid fundamentals.

Growth Areas

1. Time management. Five of the last seven losses ended with <10 s on your clock. Adopt a “critical-moment pause” (spend a chunk of time only 3-4 times per game) and make the rest of the moves on instinct.
2. King safety in sharp Caro-Kann sidelines. In both recent defeats (Two-Knights & Chigorin variations) the h-file opened against you. Study model defences featuring …g6, …h5 and fast queenside castling.
3. Switching from attack to conversion. Some winning attacks drift because you keep hunting the king instead of cashing in material. Train “advantage realisation” positions to build that switch.

Illustrative Moment

Critical position from the loss vs PawnStorm199 — after 21…Ng3+ Black’s pieces crashed through. Replay and ask where the defence could have been strengthened:

Two-Week Action Plan

1. Review 10 GM games where Black neutralises early pressure in the Caro-Kann Classical & Two-Knights.
2. Play a 10-game training match starting from the position after 6…h6 7.h5 Bh7 to rehearse your favourite defensive setup.
3. Solve 20 timed tactics daily (2 min limit) to simulate decision-making under clock pressure.
4. End every session with one rook-and-pawn drill (Philidor/Lucena positions).

Long-Term Suggestions

• Add a second defence to 1.e4 (consider the Petrov Defense) so opponents cannot prepare exclusively for your Caro-Kann.
• Balance your White repertoire with a quieter 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 line to complement your aggressive Benoni structures.
• Create a highlight reel of your best tactical shots and review it monthly to reinforce pattern recognition.

Keep up the great work, Dipro! Your tactical sharpness is already at titled-player level — polish the clock handling and defensive technique, and the next rating jump will follow.