Coach Chesswick
Eray, here is your personalised post-match review
✅ What you are already doing well
- Fearless initiative: In several wins you willingly pushed pawn storms (e.g. 15.h4 vs the French and 30.Qg5 vs the Chigorin) which put your opponents under immediate pressure.
- Tactical alertness: Your conversion of advantages is crisp; the mating attack that ended with 64.g4# is a good example of keeping the king in the box until it collapses.
- Piece activity out of the opening: When you get rapid development (Four-Pawns Alekhine, Grunfeld sideline) your pieces coordinate quickly and you dictate play.
- Blitz instincts: Even with <10 s remaining you often find forcing continuations, showing good pattern recognition.
🔍 Repeated issues that are costing you points
- Loosening pawn moves in the opening
Your most recent loss began – three pawn moves (h6, g6, f6) before developing a single piece left dark-square holes and time deficits. Aim to follow the classical “Develop pieces, then decide on pawn structure” rule. - Central tension mis-management
In the Najdorf loss you captured on d4 with …cxd4 and later …dxe5 but failed to recapture on d5 in time, allowing e5–e6 tactics. Train with thematic pawn structure drills; recognise when unresolved tension is in your favour vs. when it will explode against you. - Endgame technique under pressure
The Larsen game slipped from equal to lost after 29…Kg6? Moves like …Kg6 left the rook passive and the passed a-pawn unstoppable. A quick calculation of 29…Rxd4 30.exd4 Rb8 would have contained the damage. - Time management
In nearly every defeat you had ≤40 s by move 25 while the opponent still had ~1 min. Use a lightweight thinking routine (e.g. Checks-Captures-Threats) each move and reserve deeper thinks for critical junctures only.
🎯 Action plan for the next two weeks
| Day(s) | Focus |
|---|---|
| Mon / Thu | 25 min of endgame study (rook + pawn vs. rook, opposite-colour bishops). Interactive trainer or sparring vs engine. |
| Tue / Fri | 15 tactics from a Forks & Pins motif set; demand 90 % accuracy. |
| Wed | Annotate one of your losses without engine, then compare to engine suggestions. |
| Weekend | Play a 15 | 10 rapid game; focus exclusively on not pushing wing pawns before castling. |
📈 Progress trackers
Use the dashboards below to verify that the training is helping.
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Key reference terms
tension • weak%20square • Candidate move • minor-piece%20endgame
Motivation corner
Your current peak blitz rating is . Ironing out the first-10-moves discipline could easily add +80 elo. Keep the fighting spirit, and see you at the next review!