Anna Styazhkina WIM

Recent Performance Overview

Anna, you have maintained a nearly balanced record with 78 wins, 76 losses, and 4 draws in your recent blitz Chess960 games. Your strength-adjusted win rate is positive at approximately 55%, reflecting solid play even against similarly rated opponents.

Your rating changes over the past several months show a positive upward trend overall, though you experienced a dip in the last month with a 135-point drop. This suggests fluctuations in performance that are natural but offer room for growth.

Strengths to Build On

• You exhibit resilience by securing strong wins even after losses, maintaining an upward rating slope over 3 to 12 months.
• Your performance with the Sicilian Defense: Closed is excellent, winning 7 out of 8 games with an 87.5% success rate. This opening seems to suit your style effectively.
• Your persistence and ability to capitalize on opponent mistakes helped win games by forcing resignations or checkmates, as seen in your recent wins.
• Strong use of piece activity and control in the middlegame, demonstrated by aggressive moves such as early pawn pushes and piece development in your winning game.

Areas for Improvement

• Opening Variety: Your largest category is 'Unknown' openings with a win rate just under 50%. Exploring and mastering a wider range of specific openings could reduce unpredictability and improve early game results.
• Handling Pressure: Some of the losses and the recent rating dip indicate possible challenges in time management or pressure situations. Practicing faster decision-making in blitz could help maintain consistency.
• Endgame Technique: Review games where you lost due to checkmate or pressure in late middlegame; enhancing basic endings and tactical motifs will help avoid missed opportunities.
• Improve performance in openings with lower win rates such as the Scandinavian Defense and London System variations where you hover around 33-44% win rate.

Specific Recommendations

• Analyze and memorize key lines of your favored openings like the Closed Sicilian while broadening your repertoire to include reliable responses to Scandinavian and London System openings.
• Regularly practice rapid calculation drills — tactics puzzles and speed games can sharpen your intuition under time constraints.
• In critical positions, focus on safety first—avoid risky piece exchanges without clear advantage and improve king safety to prevent sudden checkmates.
• Study annotated master games in the openings you find challenging to better understand strategic goals and common traps.

Next Steps

Keep harnessing your strengths and focus on minimizing inconsistencies. Use your recent winning game against ural58 as a confidence booster by reviewing the strategic plans you executed well, such as controlling the center and using your knights actively.

Maintain a balanced training schedule mixing opening study, tactical puzzles, and endgame practice to steadily raise your blitz level further.