Coach Chesswick
Coach’s Review for Cuong66TTNT
Nice work steadily adding wins to your profile – your current best blitz mark is . Below is a concise action-plan drawn from your last 10 decisive games.
What you’re already doing well ✅
- Active piece play: the sequence
…Qxb2 …Qxa1+in your latest win shows you are not afraid to grab material when calculation says it is safe. - Tactical alertness: in several games you spotted forks such as
…Nd4 / …Nxf3, immediately converting them into material advantage. - Flexible openings: you’ve experimented with both 1.d4 (Queen’s Gambit Accepted) and the Modern/Pirc as Black, giving you experience in open and semi-open pawn structures.
Highest-impact fixes 🚀
- Time management
Five of the last eight losses were flagged with winning or equal positions still on the board. Try these bullet-specific habits:- Use the opening phase for pre-moves (e.g.
…g6 …Bg7 …d6) to bank extra seconds. - When clearly winning, simplify (trade queens, enter a won endgame) instead of spending time looking for a perfect mate.
- Practice 3-minute games to build a “time cushion” instinct.
- Use the opening phase for pre-moves (e.g.
- Development over pawn-grabbing
Your queen raids on b2/a1 often succeed, but they cost several tempi. Against stronger opposition this can backfire (see the loss vsWaxStaples). General rule: if you can’t retreat the queen and castle within two moves, forget the pawn. - King safety first
A recurring pattern is castling late while the centre opens. Commit to castling by move 8–10 and keep a pawn in front of your king (avoid…f6/f3too early). - End-game conversion
In the QGA win you reached a two-rook vs rook & minor ending but needed 10 extra moves to finish. Study basic rook mates (Lucena, Philidor) so you can win on auto-pilot and save clock time.
Opening micro-plan for the next 20 games 🎯
| Colour | First moves | Goal |
|---|---|---|
| White | 1.d4 2.c4 3.Nf3 4.e3 5.Bxc4 6.O-O |
Rapid development & castle by move 6 |
| Black vs 1.e4 | 1…e5 2…Nc6 3…Nf6 (Scotch / Italian set-up) |
Classical structure, fewer early queen sorties |
| Black vs 1.d4 | 1…d5 2…e6 3…Nf6 |
Enter Queen’s Gambit Declined, solid & safe |
Study bites for this week
- 10 daily puzzles focused on forks & skewers (search “fork” in tactics trainer).
- Replay and annotate this crisp attacking game to
internalise piece coordination:
- Record your results in the next 30 games – the progress charts will update here: & .
Quick inspiration
“The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.” – Tartakower
Focus on playing fast, safe, simple chess and let your opponents make the final blunder!
Good luck at the board – see you in the winner’s column!