dadu112

Quick summary

Nice session — you're on a strong upward trend and your bullet instincts are paying off. Your rating and win-rate trends show real improvement: you're converting chances, finishing opponents, and often winning on time. Keep polishing a few practical habits and you'll make those gains stick.

What you're doing well

• Excellent practical play in time pressure — you win a lot of games by out‑grinding opponents on the clock (you do a lot of "Flagging").
• Good opening repertoire choices for bullet: lines like the Amazon Attack and King's Indian Defense are giving you solid results — your Openings Performance shows high win rates there.
• You convert material and simplify into winning endgames reliably — your wins often come after a clean trade-down and active rook/queen play.
• Nice aggression when it's warranted: pushing pawns to open files, timely rook lifts and exchanges that clear targets for your heavy pieces.

Biggest areas to improve

• King safety in the middlegame. In your loss to pr302 you got checkmated after allowing the opponent's queen into your back rank and kingside — try to avoid weakening pawn moves around your king when the opponent has active queens/rooks.
• Tactical oversight in sharp positions. A few games show missed tactics or allowing forks and mating nets. Slow down for one extra second to scan for checks, captures and threats before you move.
• Reliance on wins by flag. Winning on time is fine, but it's less reliable long-term. Focus on converting positions without needing the clock as a crutch — that reduces variance and makes your rating more stable.
• Premoves and autoplustemperatures: pre‑moves are powerful in bullet but dangerous when you miss captures or checks. Use them selectively — only in quiet positions.

Concrete, trainable habits for bullet

• Make a 3-scan rule before each move: (1) opponent checks? (2) any capture for them next move? (3) any direct mating threat? — this one extra scan catches many of the lost games you had.
• Keep your king safer: avoid weakening moves (like pushing both g‑ and h‑pawns) when the opponent has queen/rook access. If you castle queenside, be ready to create luft and keep pawns on the file in front of the king.
• Pre-move discipline: only pre-move in single-capture sequences or when the opponent has no checking resources. If the position is complicated, don't pre-move.
• Trade when ahead on the clock. If you're low on time and slightly better materially, simplify: trade down to a basic winning endgame (rook + pawn vs rook, queen vs rook, etc.).
• Checklist before accepting a simplification: am I left with weaknesses? will their queen/rook have checks? — if yes, postpone the trade until you secure king safety.

Short drills to level up (10–15 minutes each)

• 5-minute tactic bursts: focus on forks, pins and mating patterns. Do 4–5 rounds (3 minutes each) of puzzles that finish in 1–3 moves.
• Endgame 1-minute drills: practice king + rook vs king and king + pawn races. Learn key Lucena and basic rook cut-offs — you win many by converting, so make conversion automatic.
• Play 10 1+0 games with a single opening only (example: the Queens-Pawn Opening lines you like) and force yourself to spend ≤3s on opening moves. Build repeatable patterns to save time later.
• Blind checklist drill: after every move for 5 games, say to yourself “checks/captures/threats?” — makes the 3-scan habit automatic in real play.

Tactical & positional tips from your recent games

• Against active queens/rooks: create an escape square (luft) and avoid back-rank collapse. In the loss vs pr302 the final attack involved repeated queen checks and a decisive invasion — an earlier luft or pawn cover could have stopped it.
• If you have an extra pawn or piece, trade into a rook/queen endgame only after the opposing checks are neutralized. In several wins you simplified correctly and the opponent’s counterplay died off — keep doing that.
• Use your pawns as a clock advantage weapon: push to open files when opponent pieces are badly placed, but don’t overextend if it loosens your king cover.

Example game to study

Review this checkmate win — it shows patient piece play, a passed pawn promotion and finishing technique. Replay the game and look for the moments where you traded into a winning king + pawn ending and forced the promotion:

Opponent to review: started it from 400 in 2022

Game review suggestions

• Do a 5-minute postmortem on each loss: identify the one move that changed the evaluation (mate threat allowed? piece left hanging?).
• Tag recurring mistakes (king safety, missed forks, risky premoves) and track whether they appear less often after a week — small measurable improvements compound fast.
• Replay 3 of your wins and 3 of your losses moving at half speed — ask: could I have simplified earlier? Could I have prevented the tactical shot?

Next steps (this week)

• Do the 3-scan rule for every game for 7 days.
• 10 minutes/day of tactics (focus on mates, forks, pins).
• Play 20 rapid training positions where you force yourself not to pre-move for complicated positions.
• Keep using the openings that work — e.g. Amazon Attack — but prune any line that gives repeated tactical trouble.

Links to recent opponents (for targeted review)

• Win vs sookben
• Win vs montoya777
• Win vs started it from 400 in 2022 (see PGN above)
• Loss vs pr302 — focus here for the king-safety/queen-invasion pattern
• Win vs lukino77

Final note

Your long-term trend is excellent — big rating jumps and a high Strength Adjusted Win Rate. Keep building the small habits above (the 3-scan, disciplined pre-moves, endgame drills) and your bullet play will become more consistent and less reliant on clock wins. If you want, pick 1 game from today and I’ll annotate the critical moments step-by-step.