Overall Performance Summary
Yaroslav, your recent blitz games showcase a high level of tactical ability and good attacking awareness, especially given your checkmate finishes in several games. Your strength-adjusted win rate of about 40.5% in blitz demonstrates solid competitiveness at your rating level.
Your recent rating trend over one month shows encouraging positive momentum, with a slope indicating upward progress in your play, even though your rating currently remains stable over longer periods (3 and 6 months).
What You're Doing Well
- Opening Innovation: You experiment with less common lines like the Saragossa Opening (Saragossa Opening) creating unusual positions that can surprise opponents.
- Decisive Attack Execution: Several wins concluded with precise checkmates, showing your strong finishing skills and tactical vision.
- Timing and Initiative: In games like your recent victories, you maintained good pressure and timely piece activity, forcing opponents onto defensive footing early.
Areas for Improvement
- Time Management: A couple of losses were due to losing on time despite balanced or even better positions. Practicing faster decision-making under time pressure will help convert advantages into wins.
- Defense Under Pressure: In some losses, opponents capitalized on small inaccuracies in complex middlegames. Working on defensive techniques and calculation in challenging scenarios would boost resilience.
- Opening Consistency: While your openings surprise opponents, reviewing typical plans and pitfalls in your chosen lines (Caro-Kann Defense, Saragossa, etc.) will improve opening stability and reduce risk of early disadvantage.
Recommendations for Training
- Work on speed chess tactics puzzles to improve your calculation and intuition for faster time controls.
- Analyze critical moments in your losses where time trouble was a factor; practice making quality moves quickly.
- Study model games in the Saragossa Opening and the Caro-Kann Defense to deepen your understanding of typical strategies and countermeasures.
- Consider incorporating training on defensive skills such as under-promotion tactics, fortress building, and resourceful exchanges.
Final Thought
Keep harnessing your attacking creativity and continue sharpening time management in blitz. Your positive momentum suggests great potential for growth with targeted study. Consistent practice and reflection on both victories and defeats will build your confidence and rating over time.
Keep up the great work, Yaroslav!