elenakotrikadze is a rapid chess player and streamer who brings the chessboard to life for her audience. On stream she blends quick-thinking battles with humor, coaching moments, and a welcoming community. She treats every game as a live story, narrating ideas aloud so viewers can learn in real time. Her preferred time control is Rapid, which fuels fast, sharp, and entertaining challenges. Her peak Rapid rating is highlighted as a notable milestone, and a rating trend chart chronicles the climb from 2021 through 2025.
1487 (2025-03-03)
Streaming and Community
As a streamer, elenakotrikadze builds a welcoming space where fans watch, chat, and learn together. She often analyzes games live, answers questions, and occasionally debuts playful openings just for fun. If you want to connect, the profile can be found here: elenakotrikadze.
Playing Style and Opening Repertoire
Her play blends practical trickiness with solid technique, prioritizing active piece play and resilient endgames. She enjoys dynamic openings and maintains a diverse repertoire across time controls. Key Rapid choices include the Sicilian Defense, London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation, Australian Defense, and QGA lines. In Blitz and Bullet she adapts quickly with sharp attacks and resourceful defenses.
Rapid openings: Sicilian Defense, London System: Poisoned Pawn Variation, Australian Defense, QGA: 3.Nf3 Bg4
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Coach Chesswick
Overview of your recent rapid games
You’ve demonstrated strong fighting spirit and willingness to press in the middlegame. The games show you can generate practical chances with active piece play. The following ideas aim to help you convert that energy into more consistent results across the next few events.
What you are doing well
You keep the initiative and look for active plans even in complex positions, which creates practical chances for yourself and for your opponents.
You coordinate rooks and minor pieces on open files or diagonals, often generating meaningful pressure on the king or pivotal squares.
You show resilience in tight or unbalanced positions, staying aggressive and seeking incremental improvements rather than settling for immediate simplifications.
Key areas to focus on for stronger results
Opening consistency: build a compact, practical repertoire for White and Black so you get a clear middlegame plan instead of drifting into unfamiliar lines. Focus on a couple of solid setups and their typical middlegame ideas.
Time management in rapid: practice a simple time budget for the opening and first 15 moves. If you’re ever unsure, choose a safe continuation that leads to a solid structure rather than chasing speculative lines.
Calculation discipline: in critical middlegame moments, slow down and verify the forcing lines two to three moves ahead. Consider at least one alternative reply to test the sturdiness of your plan.
Endgame conversion: when you gain a tangible edge, develop a concrete plan to convert it—activate your king, coordinate rooks on the same file, and push a clear, safe pawn break if available.
Defensive vigilance: practice recognizing common tactical motifs that your opponent might use to turn the tables (forks, skewers, overloaded pieces) and identify safe defensive resources before you’re under heavy pressure.
Two-week practical plan
Daily tactical drills (10–15 minutes) focusing on patterns such as forks, pins, skewers, and back-rank ideas to sharpen pattern recognition under time pressure.
Opening study: choose one simple White setup and one Black response that you understand well. Learn the typical middlegame plans, key pawn breaks, and common piece maneuvers in those lines.
Endgame practice: work on rook endgames and king activity—learn a few go-to endgame concepts (e.g., rook behind passed pawn, king centralization in rook endings).
Post-game reflection: after each rapid game, write down the top two decision points and what you would do differently next time. Use this to inform your next game plan.
Quick practice ideas
Pattern-based tactics drills tied to your preferred openings to reinforce recurring motifs.
Balance practice between fast games and longer rapid sessions to train both quick calculation and deeper planning.
Develop a simple, repeatable post-game review routine: identify errors, propose a safer alternative, and set a concrete improvement goal for the next game.
