Dergrossebaum

Personalised Feedback for Dergrossebaum

Your Current Snapshot

• Time-control focus: Bullet (60 s).
• Latest peak: 1012 (2024-07-03).
• Typical openings: King’s-Pawn (1.e4) & Queen’s-Pawn (Blackmar-Diemer ideas).
• Recent results: a healthy mix of flagging wins and a few time forfeits.

What You Are Doing Well

• Killer Instinct: You don’t hesitate to launch attacks. Games vs Dontworry97 and DemetrioCarrasco show precise piece play that ended in checkmate before move 15.
• Tactical Alertness: Spotting forks (…Nd4, …Nxc2+) and using pins to pick up material is already in your toolkit.
• Practical flagging: Several victories come from keeping the position complicated and letting the opponent run out of time––a valid bullet skill.

Main Areas to Improve

1. Clock Management
   Five of your last six losses were on time, even from equal or better positions (e.g. vs prismawui). Try to reach move 20 with ≥15 s. Practical tips:
   
   • Use clean premoves for forced recaptures and opening sequences you trust.
   • Adopt a “0.5-second rule”: if the move you are calculating takes longer, make the safest move you already understand.
   • When clearly winning, simplify—trade queens, eliminate counter-play, and coast on the clock.
2. King Safety in Gambits
   Aggression is great, but in the BDG structure you sometimes forget to castle. In the loss below your king stayed in the centre while Black counter-punched.
   
   
   
   Guideline: after sacrificing a pawn, either castle quickly or keep the centre closed. Give your pieces shelter before chasing more pawns.
3. Conversion Technique
   When ahead a piece you sometimes continue attacking instead of trading. Adopt the rule “up material → trade pieces, not pawns”. It shortens the game and saves clock.
4. Opening Discipline
   Early queen sorties (Qf3/Qxb7) score material but also cost tempi (tempo). Experiment with more classical development: two pawns + two knights + two bishops + castle before the queen adventure.

Action Plan for the Next Week

• Play ten unrated 3-minute games focusing ONLY on time usage; annotate where you dropped below 20 s.
• Review the theme “remove the defender” and “zwischenzug” zwischenzug for 15 minutes a day on puzzles.
• Create a bullet opening book: pick 3 reliable setups with forced moves you can pre-move (e.g. Scandinavian as Black, London as White).
• After every session, write one sentence: “The moment I should have simplified was…”. This reinforces conversion habits.

Progress Trackers

Keep Going!

Your tactical eye is your super-power. Combine it with tighter clock control and safer king placement, and 650+ bullet will arrive quickly. Enjoy the climb and see you at the next milestone!