Coach Chesswick
Hi Dominik (“Dinamo3”) – Personal Training Report
At a glance
You have already reached 2631 (2021-04-03) and regularly beat 2600-level opponents. Your dynamic style with the Sicilian and King’s-Indian structures is your trademark.
What you do well
- Tactical vision – wins such as the miniature versus dragon_boy_2011_11 (…Qg2#) show crisp calculation.
- Active defence – in the East-Indian victory against Arifa Rizki Syaputra you turned a cramped position into counter-play with …d5 and …e4.
- End-game piece activity – your rook-and-pawn technique in several wins is clean.
- Opening knowledge – a consistent Najdorf / Scheveningen move-order keeps you in home territory early on.
Recurring problems
- Clock management – four of the last ten decisive games were losses on time while the position was defensible or even winning (e.g. vs Luc Hoffman).
- Over-ambitious pawn storms – early g/h-pawns (loss to Rustam Rustamov & Mieses-Opening game) left your own king exposed.
- Converting advantages – when already up material you sometimes keep complications alive (see win vs enjoychess_youtube where 34.Qa6? allowed counter-chances).
- Blocked-center planning – in the Nimzowitsch-Defence loss you failed to time pawn breaks and let …d4 tactics appear.
Opening toolkit – concrete tasks
| Your opening | Issue | Exercise |
|---|---|---|
| Sicilian Najdorf / Scheveningen | Struggle vs h4/g4 pushes | Analyse model game “Karpov–Geller 1977”, then play engine sparring where White must get g4 in. |
| KID-style East-Indian | Late …e5 break | 30-minute themed games starting from the diagram position with the goal of achieving …e5 by move 8. |
| Italian/Giuoco as White | Over-expansion on queenside | Replay Caruana’s 2019 Wijk-aan-Zee wins; note how he prepares b4/a4. |
Illustrative tactic
From the loss to grupovitchi, after 22…c6 the critical line was:
23.Kxe8! Nxe1 24.Rxe1 would have equalised — a good example of a zwischenzug you can add to your pattern-library.
Two-week training plan
- Clock drill: 10 bullet games/day aiming to keep ≥5 s after each move; review only the final 30 seconds of each game.
- Tactics: 20 puzzles/day themed on interference & Zugzwang.
- End-game technique: replay one classic rook-ending and annotate your thought process.
- Track progress with and ; aim for ≥55 % in your peak focus hours.
Mindset note
Your daring style is an asset. Pair it with stricter time discipline and a calmer conversion technique, and 2700-blitz is within reach.
Good luck, and message me once you complete the drills!