Chess23Wizzard IM

Overview of your rapid games

You have demonstrated a strong upward trajectory in rapid play, with a healthy winning pace and positive progress across time. You show confidence in a flexible opening repertoire and a readiness to calculate and act on tactical opportunities when they arise.

What you’re doing well

• You engage actively in tactics and are comfortable creating concrete threats when you have the initiative. This willingness to calculate forcing lines often leads to favorable positions and clean finishes.
• Your opening variety is a notable strength. You’re comfortable trying different setups, which keeps opponents guessing and helps you practice a wide range of middlegame plans.
• In several games you convert advantages effectively, showing good piece activity and a knack for coordinating pieces toward clear goals.

Areas to improve

• Time management: In some middlegames you spent extra time thinking deeply. Build in a simple time budget for the opening and early middlegame to avoid late-session pressure and ensure you have time for the critical decisions later on.
• Opening depth and consistency: Although your openings are varied, many show only a single-game data point. Select 2–3 openings you enjoy and study their typical middlegame plans and common responses to typical defenses so you can play them with more confidence against a wider pool of opponents.
• Endgame technique: Strengthen your practical endgames (rook endings, minor-piece endings, and pawn endings) so you can convert more half-points when material or positional parity occurs.
• Pattern recognition: Continue building a library of recurring tactical motifs (pins, skewers, forks, and discovered attacks) and practice recognizing them quickly in real games.

Opening performance snapshot

Your opening performance shows strong results across several lines, indicating good adaptability and understanding of typical middlegame plans for those structures. The one line that didn’t yield a win is a particularly sharp, double-edged defense; if you want to continue with it, plan targeted study of its main ideas, key pawn structures, and common tactical resources. Otherwise, you can prioritize lines you’re most comfortable with and deepen those to reinforce consistent results.

• Strength: Diverse openings played with confidence, often leading to favorable middlegames.
• Focus area: Deepen a couple of favorite lines to improve recall and plan execution under time pressure.

Practice plan and next steps

• Choose 2–3 openings to master deeply this month. Study typical middlegame plans, common pawn structures, and representative sample games.
• Incorporate 20 tactical puzzles per week, focusing on forks, pins, discovered attacks, and endgame motifs.
• Review one recent game per session with three concrete takeaways for improvement, and apply these in your next games.
• Work on time management drills: in standard rapid practice, set a cap for early moves and ensure you reserve time for critical midgame decisions.
• Regular endgame practice: practice rook endings and simplified positions to improve conversion when the game simplifies.

Suggested practice starter

To begin applying this feedback, you can try a focused training session like this: review a recent win in your chosen openings, solve 5 tactical puzzles centered on the planned middlegame themes, and then play a 15-move drill game focusing on sticking to your chosen plan and not overextending.