Edgar Mejinyan

Quick summary

Nice run in recent blitz. You show strong practical play: fast, tactical awareness and the ability to convert advantages. Your recent wins demonstrate good rook activity and pressure building. Time trouble remains the main leak: several games ended on time against opponents even when the position was still contestable.

Highlights from your recent wins

Concrete examples you can review:

• Well executed conversion as Black against a 2700-rated opponent. Review this game to see how you increased piece activity and turned a long middlegame edge into a win: Review this win.
• You keep creating targets and using rooks on open files to generate concrete threats. In the win where you timed the opponent out, you had dominated the center and created a passed pawn that became decisive: Review this win on time.
• Your opening choices in many wins lead to solid middlegame structures. Keep leveraging those familiar setups (for example King's Indian Defense: Exchange Variation and French Defense: Advance Variation). They suit your practical style.

Key issues from recent losses

Main themes worth addressing:

• Time trouble. The most recent loss ended on time even though the position still had fighting chances. Manage the clock earlier so you are not forced into rushed decisions in the critical phase. Review: Review this loss.
• Tactical oversight under pressure. When the clock is low you sometimes miss simple opponent threats or tactics. A slow tactical check each turn (look for checks, captures, threats) will catch many of these.
• Opening lines with low win rate. Your data shows lower win rate in some Sicilian lines such as the Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Fianchetto Variation. If you play those often, tighten your concrete move orders and typical plans: Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack, Fianchetto Variation.

Practical blitz fixes (apply immediately)

Small habits that save points in 3|0 blitz:

• Spend most of your thinking in the opening and the first 10 moves. Have a short, safe plan so you can play moves under 10 seconds once you reach the middlegame.
• Before every move do a 3-second checklist: are any of your pieces hanging, any captures available, any checks or forks for either side?
• When low on time, simplify if you can: trade down to a clear winning endgame or force simplifications that reduce tactical complexity.
• Use pre-arranged responses for common structures. If you play the same openings often, memorize the routine plans rather than tactics only.
• Avoid unnecessary pre-moves. They save time but cost you positions when opponent surprises you.

Opening plan — where to focus

Your opening performance shows clear strengths and a few weak spots to tidy up:

• Keep the lines that work for you. You have a very healthy win rate in the King’s Indian Exchange and the French Advance. Continue refining typical pawn breaks and piece placements in those setups: King's Indian Defense: Exchange Variation, French Defense: Advance Variation.
• Tighten up the Sicilians where your win rate is lower. Choose one Sicilian branch to learn deeply (for example the Richter-Rauzer or the Alapin) and drill standard plans, pawn breaks and key tactical motifs: Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation, Classical Variation, Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation.
• Short opening checklist: develop pieces, keep king safe, contest the center, identify one pawn break goal. If those are covered, you can spend less time in the opening and more where the game is decided.

7-day focused blitz plan

A compact schedule to get immediate gains.

• Day 1: 30 minutes tactics (pattern repetition: forks, pins, skewers) + 3 blitz games focusing on speed in opening moves.
• Day 2: 30 minutes opening review for one Sicilian line you play. Learn 3 typical middlegame plans. Play 5 blitz games applying them.
• Day 3: Endgame practice — basic rook and pawn endings and king activity (30 minutes) + 3 blitz games where you play down a pawn to practice defense under time pressure.
• Day 4: Tactics + 10 rapid positions where you force simplification under time pressure (train decision to exchange).
• Day 5: Play 10 blitz games and review the ones you lose for time management mistakes only. No deep engine—just human checklist.
• Day 6: Play 5 classical or 15|10 games to practice slower decision making and reduce reliance on pre-moves.
• Day 7: Consolidation. Pick two recent games (one win, one loss) and do a short postmortem using the game links above.

Quick weekly drills (10–30 minutes)

• Daily: 15 tactics on a puzzle trainer, focus on solving in under 1 minute each.
• 3 times a week: 20 minutes of rook endgames and king activity exercises.
• Once a week: review two losses focusing only on clock decisions and one alternative move that would have saved time or simplified.

Concrete next steps

Start with these three actions this week:

• Watch and annotate the win vs MichaelBaron to capture what you did accurately: Review this win.
• Watch the loss vs FastFaun specifically for moments you spent too long in the clock and identify one decision rule to apply next time: Review this loss.
• Set a daily 20-minute tactics target and follow the 7-day blitz plan above.

Closing

Your recent results and the positive trend in your ratings show you are improving. With small, consistent fixes — especially in time management and targeted opening cleanup — you will convert more good positions into wins. If you want, I can create a tailored 4-week study plan focused on the Sicilian lines you play most often or build annotated mini-reports for the two games above.